I wonder what happens to the previous Test Pilot experiments.
I loved the experimental home page and the Tab Center [1]. I really hope it continues to live.
Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
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#12what will happen to test pilot after the non-webextension are not allowed?
As far i know must of these feature are implemented as extension and i don't thing webextension have the api to do a lot of thing that are in test pilot.
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#13Some more information in the official blog post: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/01/new-test-pilot-expe... I was especially interested in the Voice Fill (speech recognition) technology. Landing page: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/voice-fill It seems the project is here: https://github.com/mozilla/speaktome/ This seems as if it actually is a webservice. From the code ( https://github.com/mozilla/spea…
"this can be very easily done fully client-side" : maybe, if you have the voice model and and inference engine that runs well on devices. Mozilla doesn't have that yet, so this experiment uses a backend running a Kaldi server and model that uses too much memory to run locally.
Once DeepSpeech is ready I'm pretty sure they will switch to that, and ultimately to on-device voice recognition with PipSqueak (PipSqueak is expected to be an inference engine usable on devices). Unfortunately none of these projects are far along enough to be usable.
Common Voice is mostly related to DeepSpeech as this will help getting data to train the engine.
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#14I've seen all the promo videos, and some questions remain unanswered: 1. What's Send encrypting with? It doesn't show anything related to setting up a password during the video. 2. What's Notes syncing with? 3. What's Voice using to analyze the voice commands?
>What's Send encrypting with? It doesn't show anything related to setting up a password during the video.
Likely a random string that is added to the download URL as Fragment (the part after # that doesn't get sent to the server).
The download URLs look like this:
https://send.firefox.com/download/50d43ef5f3/#GqCJXOUnCyxYGc...
I agree that there is very little explanation beyond "look at this cool thing".
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#15I just wish it was .. faster. Lately I've been moving away from Google everywhere I can. I moved everything but Google Voice. Yes, even Google Search - I've moved to DuckDuckGo. On windows however, I had to fall back to Chrome, because I was just shocked at how slow Firefox was. Opening pages like Twitch.tv proved to be shockingly slow. Furthermore, my habit of opening many tabs in the background like I do in Chrome/…
I always admired Mozilla for their efforts in making Firefox better. But I switched to Chrome many years ago. For me, the problem with FF was UI and UX.
Chrome and Safari just feel more "smooth and sleek", and UI elements are consistent (Look how Chrome buttons are rounded-rectangles).
The other reason I switched from FF was that Chrome has always been simply better. Sure, FF can handle many tabs, but I save that for times I want to work with Selenium or something. For an ordinary user (and even pros), Chrome just beats FF.
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#16I tried to fully switch to Firefox but it was very slow on mobile, it couldn't even open wikipedia pages... The developer tools on desktop were very slow too so eventually i had to switch back to chrome.
I simply wish they move to blink rendering engine.
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#17I don't know here Mozilla got their inspiration, but Send looks pretty similar to our E2E encrypted file sharing app Whisply: https://whisp.ly
PS: Whisply even has more features and a detailed description how its encryption works: https://whisp.ly/static/whisplyTechnicalOverview_20151201.pd...
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#18I don't know here Mozilla got their inspiration, but Send looks pretty similar to our E2E encrypted file sharing app Whisply: https://whisp.ly PS: Whisply even has more features and a detailed description how its encryption works: https://whisp.ly/static/whisplyTechnicalOverview_20151201.pd...
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#19I just wish it was .. faster. Lately I've been moving away from Google everywhere I can. I moved everything but Google Voice. Yes, even Google Search - I've moved to DuckDuckGo. On windows however, I had to fall back to Chrome, because I was just shocked at how slow Firefox was. Opening pages like Twitch.tv proved to be shockingly slow. Furthermore, my habit of opening many tabs in the background like I do in Chrome/…
Weirdly enough - I found gmail was running VERY slow on Chrome. I switched to the Brave browser and it's been blazing fast.
Weird that Google products don't even seem to run the best on their own products.
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#20I hope Firefox succeeds and destroys Chrome.