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We don't put our name on much. So when we do, it means something.

Starting with the 2026/27 season, Firefox is Wrexham AFC's Official Web Browser Partner and front-of-kit sponsor on the men's and women's teams.

More than 160 years old and nearly lost for good, the football club was saved by the community that loved it and has been climbing ever since. Wrexham AFC built something real by doing things their own way and staying close to the community that carries them.

That's a story we recognize. Firefox has spent more than 20 years as the browser people choose - not the one they're handed. Backed by a nonprofit, we've never had to answer to shareholders, just to the people who use us. Two challengers, never the default, both here because our communities showed up for us.

Our partnership debuts this weekend on the new away kit, when Wrexham travels to Kraków for their opening pre-season fixture. And this is just the start: Expect content, product integrations and fan moments all season long.

"Both Wrexham AFC and Firefox are challenger brands that built passionate global communities by doing things differently and staying true to who they are," Mozilla CMO John Solomon said. "Firefox has approached the internet with that same philosophy - building it as it should be, with people at the center."

"We are thrilled to welcome Firefox as our new front-of-kit partner," said Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds, co-chairmen of Wrexham AFC. "We love an underdog story and both Wrexham and Firefox know the feeling of having to battle giants. It takes inventiveness, relentlessness and a pristine browsing history. So let's effing go…"

Football needs Wrexham. The internet needs Firefox.

For more information on our partnership and upcoming 2026/27 season, follow @wrexham_afc on social media. Click here to download the independent browser that puts you first.

About Mozilla and Firefox

Mozilla is a global nonprofit backed technology organization that builds products, invests in startups, and advances policy to keep the internet open, fair, and worthy of trust. Firefox is the independent browser from Mozilla, known for strong tracking protection, open source code, and a focus on user choice, privacy and security.

About Wrexham AFC

Wrexham Association Football Club is based in Wrexham, North Wales, and after an historic, record-breaking three consecutive promotions are competing in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league pyramid. Formed in 1864, they are the oldest Club in Wales and the third oldest professional team in the world. Wrexham have won the Welsh Cup a record 23 times and beaten some of the biggest clubs in the game in the English FA Cup and UEFA European Cup Winners Cup. The Racecourse Ground, home to Wrexham AFC, is the world's oldest international stadium that continues to host international games.

Wrexham AFC is owned by Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds. The goal of the owners is to grow the team and establish Wrexham AFC as a Premier League club in front of increased attendances, and in an improved stadium, while making a positive difference to the wider community in Wrexham. For more information, please visit wrexhamafc.co.uk or follow @wrexham_afc.

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08 Jul 2026 1:00pm GMT

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thisweekinrust.bsky.social on Bluesky or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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Clickable euler diagram of all the Rust week talks

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is apis-saltans, a Zigbee implementation including a coordinator API.

Thanks to Richard Neumann for the self-suggestion!

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Calls for Testing

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If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear in this list, add a call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

No calls for testing were issued this week by Rust, Cargo, Rustup or Rust language RFCs.

Let us know if you would like your feature to be tracked as a part of this list.

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

* Protocol - Extend bit-exactness tests to f64 reconstruction targets
* Dofigen - No image tag replacement flag for the generate command

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Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the website through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on Bluesky or Mastodon!

Updates from the Rust Project

598 pull requests were merged in the last week

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Rustdoc

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Rust-Analyzer

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

This week was dominated by wild swings in benchmarks of the new-solver, which is not enabled by default, yet. Apart from that, we got a very few notable changes, only one unexpected speedup from a bugfix in rustdoc.

Triage done by @panstromek. Revision range: 7dc2c162..3659db0d

Summary:

(instructions:u)	mean	range	count
Regressions ❌ (primary)	0.2%	[0.2%, 0.2%]	3
Regressions ❌ (secondary)	162.1%	[0.2%, 1116.3%]	20
Improvements ✅ (primary)	-1.4%	[-8.4%, -0.1%]	7
Improvements ✅ (secondary)	-1.1%	[-8.4%, -0.1%]	11
All ❌✅ (primary)	-0.9%	[-8.4%, 0.2%]	10

1 Regression, 1 Improvement, 4 Mixed; 3 of them in rollups 17 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

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Empty repr(Rust) enums are ZSTs

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Jobs

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Quote of the Week

if a ptr is dereferenced in a forest and nobody hears it, is it sound?

- Kornel on rust-users

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08 Jul 2026 4:00am GMT

A few weeks ago, we conducted hour-long conversations with 10 of our users to dig deep into how you manage your preferences and configurations in Thunderbird desktop. While this specific research cycle focused on the desktop experience, our ultimate goal is a holistic strategy that ensures our mobile settings feel like a natural extension of your workspace.

Here is a quick look at what we discovered, what you valued, and how your feedback is actively shaping our design roadmap.

"Key themes" is written along the top of the graphic with 6 boxes under, noting each theme: trust, reduce the clutter, settings are setup once, hard to navigate, users manage their inbox like a to-do list/workflow, and configuring settings is confusing and time consuming.

What you told us

You are incredibly passionate about customization, and appreciate Thunderbird's robust functionality. Overall, a common thread that stood out was that most of you want to set up your space once and then make small tweaks to your preferences, you want it to look modern, and navigate effortlessly without running into issues with technical jargon.

Here are the key themes that emerged from our conversations:

Ecosystem trust: Your commitment to Thunderbird is rooted in a deep trust for open-source software, the Mozilla brand, absolute transparency, and reliability.
Set and forget: You customize extensively during your initial setup, followed only by minor tweaks to get your workspace just right.
Clutter & noise: There is a strong desire to reduce workspace clutter and the cognitive "noise" within dense configuration menus.
Search to navigate: While deep navigation menus can feel hard to find your way through, an in-app search function is your go-to for finding what you need quickly.
The "inbox as a to-do list" workflow: Many of you don't just read mail, you actively treat your unread inbox as a task list or interactive to-do queue.
Terminology barriers: Even for advanced users, many settings feel overly technical, which causes hesitation when you're trying to explore your options.

"Recommendations" is written along the top of the graphic with 6 boxes under, noting each theme: Demystify advanced settings, grouping one-time configurations, surface quick controls, group tasks, explain security and privacy practices, and pair with modern UI.

Improvements we want to make

We don't want to just make minor fixes, we want to design a better workflow. Based on your feedback, here are the core design actions that will be driving our next phase focusing on general and account settings:

Demystify the language: We are planning to replace confusing technical terminology with plain, clear language, so you always know exactly what each function does.
Streamline information architecture: We are regrouping settings into logical, task-oriented categories to make manual navigation smooth and intuitive.
Bring context to privacy & security: Instead of a flat list of checkboxes, we want to add clear explanations around data security and defaults so you can make confident, informed decisions.
Functionality meets modern UI: Thunderbird's robust functionality is its superpower, but a dated interface shouldn't be a barrier to entry for newer users.
Accessibility update: Based on a community member's recent audit, we are also taking this opportunity to improve the overall accessibility of the settings experience.

What's next?

We are hitting the ground running with these insights. Right now, our team is actively:

Finalizing our project scope to directly incorporate these research findings.
Mapping out and proposing a streamlined information architecture for settings.
Designing this layout holistically so that desktop preferences and mobile configurations

A massive thank you to everyone who offered their time and feedback for this study! We look forward to sharing more with you soon.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

The post Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback appeared first on The Thunderbird Blog.

07 Jul 2026 6:56pm GMT

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08 Jul 2026

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07 Jul 2026

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Improvements we want to make

What's next?