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* Firefox 81 is in the Nightly channel. This Thursday is the soft code freeze, meaning that developers should not land code that is deemed risky for the stability and general quality of Firefox and that features that are controlled by a pref and were not activated during the nightly cycle should not be activated. If you land code that introduces new crashers or lowers the overall quality of Firefox during this period, you will be backed out instead of waiting for a follow-up fix. Over the last week the Nightly channel has received about 320 bug fixes including these notable changes:
** Firefox will now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656277 show the bookmarks toolbar after migration if there were bookmarks in the other browser's toolbar.] This change means that migrating users won't think they've lost their high priority bookmarks or have to go digging for them in a Firefox bookmarks folder.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648100 MediaControl has been enabled for riding the trains to release. ] It had previously been restricted to Nightly builds. Among other things, media control allow users to control <audio> and <video> play by pressing hardware control buttons on a keyboard or headset.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1657521 Gecko now has hardware VP9 support on macOS.] This is only available on macOS 11 (Big Sur.)
** Firefox Developer Tools now has a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590885 setting that exposes line-wrap as an option in the debugger.] The new option is found in the debugger's context menu.
