Tuesday, 9 February, 2021 UTC
Summary
Firefox 86 will be released on February 23, 2021. We’d like to call out two highlights and several bug fixes for the WebExtensions API that will ship with this release.
Highlights
- Extensions that have host permissions for tabs no longer need to request the broader “tabs” permission to have access to the tab URL, title, and favicon URL.
- As part of our work on Manifest V3, we have landed an experimental base content security policy (CSP) behind a preference in Firefox 86. The new CSP disallows remote code execution. This restriction only applies to extensions using
manifest_version, which is not currently supported in Firefox. If you would like to test the new CSP for extension pages and content scripts, you must change your extension’smanifest_versionto 3 and setextensions.manifestv3.enabledtotrueinabout:config.
- Redirected URIs can now be set to a loopback address in the
identity.launchWebAuthFlowAPI. This fix makes it possible for extensions to successfully integrate with OAuth authentication for some common web services like Google and Facebook. This will also be uplifted to Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 78. - Firefox 76 introduced a regression where webRequest.StreamFilter did not disconnect after an API, causing the loading icon on tabs to run persistently. We’ve also fixed a bug that caused crashes when using view-source requests.
- The zoom levels for the extensions options pages embedded in the Firefox Add-ons Manager (about:addons) tabs should work as expected.
- Now that the tabs hiding API is enabled by default, the
extensions.webextensions.tabhide.enabledpreference is no longer displayed and references to it have been removed.
As a quick note, going forward we’ll be publishing release updates in the Firefox developer release notes on MDN. We will still announce major changes to the WebExtensions API, like new APIs, significant enhancements, and deprecation notices, on this blog as they become available.
Thanks
Many thanks to community members Sonia Singla, Tilden Windsor, robbendebiene, and Brenda Natalia for their contributions to this release!
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