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Comment #19368049
boop: https://github.com/mozilla/send
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Comment #18661244
There are a ton of these in DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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Comment #17248811
Yeah, it will sometime soon. (source: working on it)
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Comment #16577149
Hey, Screenshots person here...this is a new one to me. My only thoughts would be the pref flip that seems to be ruled out at this point, or that you're trying to shoot an about:[S…
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Comment #15339124
hit the hamburger menu, then Customize. In the lower right, there should be a toggle for it. edit: not sure if that's linux friendly
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Comment #14921133
We're seeing the Edge error too, though it wasn't there in earlier QA, so it's a bit mysterious. Hopeful that we'll have some remediation soon. Source: I work on Test Pilot
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Comment #14904630
We're moving to a webExtensiony future. The idea here is that we'll be a first party consumer of the webExtension APIs so we can help test/drive/expand capabilities.
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Comment #14904617
Hey, we're a little behind on writing up the last few experiments unfortunately. We'll be adding full reports over the next few weeks.
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Comment #14359075
So, I'm a PM at Mozilla who did an MDes in Interaction Design at CMU. I'm a dataset of one, but my experience there was absolutely worth the cost. A few notes: - 65k is a lot, but …
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Comment #13778088
Containers are per-tab and isolate only tracking-related data (not bookmarks or history, for now). Also containers don't require that you open multiple instances of Firefox.
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Comment #13778056
1. Hello potch! 2. Yes, this is among the most requested features we've seen so far. Containers in Test Pilot will remain in active development for the foreseeable future, so I wou…
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Comment #13776709
Agreed. Right now we're pretty hands off about modifying default behaviors, link handling etc. Chalk this up to us wanting to be unopinionated about specific use cases, but there a…
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Comment #13776602
Yes this, we did some brainstorming and solicited user feedback about names and decided Containers makes sense for a general audience. Docker Containers and 'Contextual Idendities'…
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Comment #12717744
Simply, our user testing (with Windows users in particular) suggests it's a feature people find useful. We're using Test Pilot to learn a bit more, that's all. I only mentioned scr…
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Comment #12717734
So the other thing with the Tracking Protection experiment is that we're soliciting feedback about how this feature breaks the web. We use a block list from Disconnect for Tracking…
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Comment #12717700
Hello had browser sharing built in for awhile, but nobody used it, so we took out the feature in 49. Test Pilot is, at least in part, a program intended to let us develop ideas in …
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Comment #12717608
Test Pilot and all these experiments are OPT IN. You have to seek them out and install them separately from Firefox.
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Comment #12717589
Actually, we've made email collection/messages entirely opt in (as the result of user feedback) :) Edit: but we should update the privacy notice!
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Comment #12717581
Page Shot, like all features in Test Pilot is opt in. We have no plans to force anything on anyone. A big part of why we built test pilot in the first place was to give us a platfo…
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Comment #12226846
This is an opt-in experiment in an opt in program.
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Comment #12226832
The Test Pilot program is pretty small compared to the total traffic to the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive guys were not worried about this, so I'm not either.