It's taken more than a decade, but after enough user complaints, there is finally a patch queued for Firefox 57 to fix an arguably annoying default behavior of Firefox on Linux/Unix systems.

Mozilla had several student developers contributing to their next-gen Servo engine via this year's Google Summer of Code. Overall the work appears to be a big success and boost for Servo.

Since the end of July Stylo has been available via Firefox Nightly as the Rust-written Servo CSS style system. For those curious about this modern CSS system and the broader effort as part of bringing Servo/Quantum components to Firefox, Mozilla has out an interesting blog post.

Mozilla's Firefox 55 web browser is now deemed stable while Firefox 56 enters beta and Firefox 57 is the new nightly build.

Stylo, the new style system written for Servo in the Rust programming language, can be enabled in the latest Firefox Nightly desktop builds.

With Firefox 54 having shipped this week, Firefox 55 is now in beta.

Additional web browser news this week is Mozilla's launch today of Firefox 54.

One of the latest milestones being worked on for making the Servo browser engine more usable is WebGL support.

Mozilla Firefox 53.0 has rolled out the door.

Thunderbird 52.0 is now available as the latest stable release for those using this Mozilla-developed mail client.

Mozilla has laid out a proposal for a new low-level graphics API for the web dubbed Obsidian.

With Firefox 52 having sailed earlier this week, Mozilla has pushed Firefox 53.0 into beta.

Mozilla has rolled out Firefox 52.0 as the latest version of their open-source, cross-platform web browser.

A Phoronix reader has taken to improving the situation around being able to deploy Mozilla's Firefox web-browser natively on Wayland, particularly for Arch Linux distributions as well as those distributions supporting both Wayland and Flatpak.

This was one of the busiest weeks in Firefox's history with having more than ~10,000 change-sets affecting ~97,000 file changes.

Firefox 51 was released last week and like clock work there was a new Firefox beta for the next release issued shortly thereafter.

Firefox 51.0 just hit Mozilla's FTP servers for those wanting the latest version of this open-source web-browser.

Mozilla's experimental layout engine, Servo, is working on figuring out their goals for 2017.

While Chrome 55 has JavaScript async/await support, the Firefox support isn't coming until the Firefox 52.0 stable release in March while currently it's available in the latest Firefox Developer Edition and early alpha builds.

With Firefox 50 having been released this week, Mozilla put Firefox 51 in beta.

Mozilla has uploaded the final Firefox 50.0 binaries to their servers for all supported operating systems.

Mozilla's latest secret project to go public is Quantum, a new browser engine for Firefox. But before wondering what happened to Servo, don't worry, Quantum makes use of Servo and Rust.

This week word of Mozilla's "Project Mortar" surfaced, which aims to explore the possibility of bringing the PDFium library and Pepper API based Flash plugin into Firefox. This project is being led by various Mozilla engineers.

It's been nearly two months since last writing about Mozilla's Servo web layout engine (in early August, back when WebRender2 landed) but development has kept up and they continue enabling more features for this next-generation alternative to Gecko.

At the end of 2015 Mozilla effectively put an end to Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko by concluding things weren't working out for Mozilla Corp and their commercial partners to ship Firefox OS smartphones. All commercial development around it has since stopped and they are now preparing to strip B2G from the mozilla-central code-base.

While being delayed one week due to last-minute bugs, Firefox 49.0 is now available this morning.

Beginning with the Firefox 51 web-browser release, FLAC audio will finally be supported natively.

There are two exciting bits of Mozilla Firefox news to pass along today: Winevine support on Linux out-of-the-box to handle Netflix and friends. Separately, WebP image support is being worked on.

WebRender, the GPU-accelerated back-end for Mozilla's Servo browser layout engine, has seen a large number of improvements with WebRender2.

Firefox 48.0 is officially available this morning for all supported platforms.