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Mozilla: Firefox DevTools Newsletter, Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest, and Turning Off Firefox Surveillance

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 04, 2024

Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox DevTools Newsletter — 131

Developer Tools help developers write and debug websites on Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 131 Nightly release cycle.

Firefox being an open source project, we are grateful to get contributions from people outside of Mozilla: [...]

Thunderbird ☛ Mozilla Thunderbird: Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: September 2024

Hello Thunderbird Community! I’m Toby Pilling, a new team member and I’ve spent the last couple of months getting up to speed, and have really enjoyed meeting the team and members of the community virtually, and some in person! September is now over (and so is the summer for many in our team), and we’re excited to share the latest adventures underway in the Thunderbird world. If you missed our previous update, go ahead and catch up! Here’s a quick summary of what’s been happening across the different teams:

Progress continues on implementing move/copy operations, with the ongoing re-architecture aimed at making the protocol ecosystem more generic. Work has also started on error handling, protocol logging and a testing framework. A Rust starter pack has been provided to facilitate on-boarding of new team members with automated type generation as the first step in reducing the friction.

Don Marti ☛ Don Marti: why I’m turning off Firefox ad tracking: the PPA paradox

Previously: turn off advertising features in Firefox

I am turning off the controversial Privacy-preserving attribution (PPA) advertising tracking feature in Firefox, even though, according to the documentation, there are some good things about PPA compared to cookies: