Firefox released version 52.0 today. It brings the usual bug fixes and security enhancements but most noticeably it takes away the ability to use NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) plugins like Silverlight, Java, Acrobat, and others. Adobe's Flash Player is the one exception to this removal and Mozilla promises to further restrict Flash to only activate with click-to-play later … [Read more...]

On the Mozilla Wiki, the Firefox 2016/17 Strategy and Roadmap was updated. This gives a preview of the emphasis that the browser will receive for development through the first quarter of 2017 and versions 48 through 51. A number of large changes are in store for the browser within this roadmap. From the roadmap, we can see areas that Firefox will receive attention … [Read more...]