Release notes

Firefox 35

Highlights

• Added access keys for context menu.
• Removed isPrivateBrowsing from BrowserWindow.

Details

GitHub commits made between Firefox 34 and Firefox 35. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Bugs fixed between Firefox 34 and Firefox 35. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Firefox 34

Highlights

• New API: dev/panel enables you to extend the Firefox Developer Tools.
• jpm beta released.
• "./my-file" introduced everywhere as an alias for require("sdk/self").data.url("my-file")
• Added the ability to attach stylesheets to individual tabs.

Details

GitHub commits made between Firefox 33 and Firefox 34. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Bugs fixed between Firefox 33 and Firefox 34. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Firefox 33

Highlights

• Added support for context menus in panels via a new option in the Panel constructor.
• Added tab.readyState.
• Added a BrowserWindow parameter to sidebar.show() and sidebar.hide(), to control the window for which the sidebar will be shown or hidden.

Details

GitHub commits made between Firefox 32 and Firefox 33. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Bugs fixed between Firefox 32 and Firefox 33. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Firefox 32

Highlights

• Added exclude option to PageMod.
• Added anonymous option to Request.
• Add-on Debugger now includes a Console and a Scratchpad.

Details

GitHub commits made between Firefox 31 and Firefox 32. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Bugs fixed between Firefox 31 and Firefox 32. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Firefox 31

Highlights

• Add-on Debugger
• Added the ability to convert between high-level BrowserWindow objects and DOM windows, and between high-level Tab objects and XUL tabs.
• Updated the default theme used for panels on Mac OS X.
• Added contentStyle and contentStyleFile options to panel.

Details

GitHub commits made between Firefox 30 and Firefox 31. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Bugs fixed between Firefox 30 and Firefox 31. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Firefox 30

Highlights

• Added the ability to anchor panels to buttons.
• Changes in the way content scripts share objects with page scripts. Documentation and blog post.
• Added child_process, an implementation of the node.js child_process API.
• Content scripts in page-mod get detach events when the add-on is disabled or removed.
• throttle() and debounce() functions added to lang/functional.
• getTabForId() function added to tabs/utils.

Details

GitHub commits made between Firefox 29 and Firefox 30. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Bugs fixed between Firefox 29 and Firefox 30. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Firefox 29

Highlights

• Added new UI modules for Australis: ActionButton, ToggleButton, Frame and Toolbar.
• Made the preferences branch for simple-prefs configurable.
• Added PredicateContext to sdk/context-menu.
• Deprecated widget in favor of the new UI modules.
• Removed tab-browser, app-strings and api-utils.publicConstructor

Details

GitHub commits made between Firefox 28 and Firefox 29. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Bugs fixed between Firefox 28 and Firefox 29. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Firefox 28

Highlights

• Added wildcard event type "*".
• Added a ready event to sidebars.
• Added a delete() method to sdk/request.

Details

GitHub commits made between Firefox 27 and Firefox 28. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Bugs fixed between Firefox 27 and Firefox 28. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.