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Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Post by eridius »

notheguyouthink wrote: post #2

I 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/…

Firefox stable feels relatively slow. Firefox nightly is really snappy, especially with Stylo enabled.

Also, go to about:config, and make sure preloading is turned on. I checked it last week and for some reason it was turned off, even though I don't recall ever doing that.

Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Post by sp332 »

bad_user wrote: post #11

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. [1] https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter

On the main https://testpilot.firefox.com/ page, scroll down and click "view past experiments". Each one gets a write-up when it's over.

Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Post by detaro »

albertzeyer wrote: post #10

Some 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…

Here is the backend: https://github.com/mozilla/speech-proxy (which talks to Kaldi via I think https://github.com/api-ai/asr-server)

Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Post by problems »

robfreudenreich wrote: post #17

I 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...

There's many such tools available, RiseUp runs one called Up1. See https://share.riseup.net/

It's quite nice, has integrated image and video viewers as well as a pastebin all end-to-end encrypted.

Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Post by sp332 »

hexmiles wrote: post #12

what 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.

They will have to adapt. For now they're using data from the experiments to guide API development. For example, the Tab Center experiment used old APIs, but now they've expended the new API and are building a new Tab Center Redux extension at the same time. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-re...

Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Post by fpgaminer »

notheguyouthink wrote: post #2

I 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/…

It's getting there. They recently added multiprocess support. A new CSS engine is coming. In the further future we're going to get more and more pieces of their new rendering engine in.

Personally, I dropped Chrome 2 years ago or so, for the same reasons (moving away from everything Google that I reasonably can). Firefox is more painful to use, for sure, but it's gotten "okay" enough that I'm willing to keep using it in favor of its benefits (privacy).

By the way: In Firefox, open `about:support` and check that "Multiprocess Windows" says something like "2/2 (enabled by Default", where the numbers can really be anything but 0. If it's disabled, that means your Firefox isn't using the new multiprocess support, most likely because you're running an incompatible addon.

Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Post by mrspeaker »

I feel like I must be reaching the "get off my lawn" phase of my life, because I can't even comprehend a situation where I'd ever want to talk at my browser... maybe when I'm at home alone and, couldn't type for some reason? Certainly not in the office. Am I missing a use case, or am I just old now?

Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Post by robfreudenreich »

problems wrote: post #25
robfreudenreich wrote: post #17

I 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...

There's many such tools available, RiseUp runs one called Up1. See https://share.riseup.net/ It's quite nice, has integrated image and video viewers as well as a pastebin all end-to-end encrypted.

Up1 looks nice, but is internally using SJCL which is slow and does not support bigger files ("This is not a problem with sub-10MB images"). Send - and Whisply - are built on the new WebCrypto APIs which are faster and allow bigger files, up to 1 GB in both cases.

Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

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Post by sp332 »

mrspeaker wrote: post #28

I feel like I must be reaching the "get off my lawn" phase of my life, because I can't even comprehend a situation where I'd ever want to talk at my browser... maybe when I'm at home alone and, couldn't type for some reason? Certainly not in the office. Am I missing a use case, or am I just old now?

Lots of people are faster at speaking than typing. Or maybe you're reading from a document (or pill bottle) and don't want to type with one hand or whatever. But what I usually use it for is if I'm having a conversation with someone and we want to look something up. It feels more anti-social to type silently for a while than to make the computer part of the conversation.
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