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1 Firefox Firefox, Landing, Mozilla
Here you can learn about how to contribute to the Firefox project and you will also find links to information about the construction of Firefox add-ons, using the developer tools in Firefox, and other topics.
3 Building Firefox with Rust code Build documentation, Gecko, build, rust
In May 2015 the Rust programming language reached its 1.0 stability milestone, and various experiments with writing parts of Gecko in Rust began. Rust code first shipped in August 2016 with the release of Firefox 48. It became a requirement for building Gecko in February 2017 with Firefox 54.
8 Experimental features in Firefox Experimental, Firefox, Preferences, features
This page lists features that are in Nightly versions of Firefox along with information on how to activate them, if necessary.
10 Firefox UI considerations for web developers Activity Stream, Firefox, Icons, Mozilla, New Tab, NewTab, UI, Web, Web Development, favicon
There are a number of places within the Firefox user interface where web sites are listed for the user to choose a destination to visit or a site to manage in some way. One example is the new tab page, which includes a "Top Sites" section showing sites you visit that Firefox thinks you're likely to want to visit again, as well as potentially some sites that have been pinned to always appear in that space.
11 Firefox and the "about" protocol Firefox, Guide, Mozilla, Protocols
There is a lot of useful information about Firefox hidden away behind the about: URL protocol. The most useful is the URL about:config, which displays preferences and settings that can be inspected and changed.
141 Index Firefox, Index, Mozilla
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142 Linux compatibility matrix
The following table lists the available library versions for the mozilla.org-distributed Firefox builds dependencies, and/or to build Firefox.
143 Multiple Firefox profiles Beginner, Firefox, Guide, Intro, Profiles, QA
A profile in Firefox is the collection of settings, customizations, add-ons, and other personalizations that a user has made or installed into their copy of Firefox. You can find details about profiles on Mozilla's end-user support site.
168 Performance best practices for Firefox front-end engineers Best practices, Developing Firefox, Developing Mozilla, Firefox, Front-end, Mozilla, Performance
This guide will help Firefox developers working on front-end code produce code which is as performant as possible—not just on its own, but in terms of its impact on other parts of Firefox. Always keep in mind the side effects your changes may have, from blocking other tasks to interfering with other user interface elements.
169 Privacy Privacy, Security
This document lists privacy-related documentation.
170 Storage access policy: Block cookies from trackers Privacy, storage access policy, tracking protection
Firefox includes a new storage access policy that blocks cookies and other site data from third-party tracking resources. This new policy is designed as an alternative to the current policies, which have been available in Firefox for many years. The new policy protects against cross-site tracking while minimizing the site breakage associated with traditional cookie blocking. This article explains how the new policy works and how you can test it.
171 Tracking Protection Privacy, Private browsing, blocking, tracking
Starting in version 42, Firefox Desktop and Firefox for Android include built-in tracking protection. In Private Browsing windows (tabs, in Firefox for Android), Firefox will block content loaded from domains that track users across sites.
172 Security best practices for Firefox front-end engineers Best practices, Developing Firefox, Developing Mozilla, Firefox, Front-end, Mozilla, Performance
This article will help Firefox developers understand the security controls in place and avoid common pitfalls when developing front-end code for Firefox.