Thanks Sebastian. I intend to have the features listed on that webpage reflected in the new about:preferences#experimental page.
Cheers, Jared On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:35 PM Sebastian Zartner < sebastianzart...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to point out that there is also an MDN page listing experimental > features: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Experimental_features > > Maybe that page could be linked to from the new section? And maybe other > features listed there could be added to the section? > > Best regards, > > Sebastian > > On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 6:14:23 AM UTC+2, Jared Wein (Mozilla) wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The Firefox Preferences (about:preferences) is gaining a new section > called > > "Firefox Experiments" ("Nightly Experiments" on Nightly builds). This > > section will list features that are in-development or otherwise awaiting > > some kind of feedback before being enabled by default. > > > > Experimental features can be displayed based on release channel (Nightly, > > DevEdition, Beta, Release) and platform (Windows, macOS, Linux). This > work > > is based on FeatureGates[1] as implemented by the Normandy team. > > > > As of bug 1648223 this work is now enabled by default in Firefox Nightly > > builds, and may ship with Firefox 79 though could be held back to Firefox > > 80 if we want to get a larger list of experimental features. > > > > If you have a feature that you would like wider testing of, please file a > > bug in Firefox::Preferences and add your feature to > > toolkit/components/featuregates/Features.toml. See the documentation[1] > for > > details on feature definitions. Bug 1648223 is on autoland now and > includes > > some updates to the documentation. > > > > A new section, "Experimental Features", has been added to about:support > to > > list the state of the features to help with bug reports. Bug 1644544 is > on > > autoland to annotate crash-stats with the state of the enabled > Experimental > > Features and there is planned work to allow engineers to optionally > disable > > their features when in Safe Mode. > > > > Thank you for reading this far. Please let me know if you have any > > questions, > > Jared > > > > [1] > > > https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/featuregates/featuregates/index.html > > > > -- > > Jared Wein > > Staff Software Engineer, Firefox > > Mozilla Corporation > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Jared Wein Staff Software Engineer, Firefox Mozilla Corporation _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
