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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 soapdog »

r3bl wrote: post #9

I'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?

2. Notes source code is at https://github.com/mozilla/notes, the panel.js source[1] is the one that saves and load content. It uses the Storage API from Web Extensions[2], but it uses it only to save/load locally. It is not currently sending any data anywhere. So, sync is not enabled. If you click the sync button, you're greeted with a message[3] saying it is not implemented yet (they do count it and metrify it, probably gauging interest).

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/notes/blob/6bae20ceb58c5f1487885f...

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...

[3]: http://take.ms/ieu4n

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

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Post by jgruen »

eridius wrote: post #37
sp332 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the only one I can think of, not sure why that site would require it though. https://caniuse.com/#feat=input-file-directory

Found it. It's checking for window.crypto.subtle. Looks like Safari TP supports this. I believe the problem with Safari 10 is that it implemented an older version of the web cryptography standard.

yep

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

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Post by dingdingdang »

joelrunyon wrote: post #19
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/…

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.

Routinely have similar issues with gmail/chrome whereas I never have any issues on Firefox. Odd.

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

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Post by karolg »

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/…

Option to disable autoplay in background tabs exists in Firefox for so long that I forgot it isn't enabled by default.

Go to about:config and set: media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground = true

In older versions they used another config variable media.block-play-until-visible .

There is also media.suspend-bkgnd-video.enabled to stop decoding video in background tabs after set amount of time (10s default).

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

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Post by idobai »

artursapek wrote: post #6
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 doesn't help that they keep cramming features into Firefox. Chrome feels pretty bare in comparison.

Chrome is pretty much a bloatware with no useful features.

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

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Post by ece »

romanovcode wrote: post #20

I hope Firefox succeeds and destroys Chrome.

After the 54 release, it is the better browser frankly, low latency, and not a resource hog. Plugins, extensions, privacy and security defaults all seem to be better as well.

Using firefox focus on android is pretty great too. The normal firefox on android is just slow, not sure why.

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

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Post by notheguyouthink »

CommanderData wrote: post #40
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/…

Google does not want you to move from their services and APIs. Chrome/Chromium, as a recent example allowed serviceURI in Web Speech APIs for third party recognition to be plugged in. Here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog... It was dropped in Chrome 49 and we're now all stuck with using Google. There has been little coverage on this, some speculated it was hardly implemented, or was dropp…

I mean, I don't care what Google wants lol. I've moved everything except Chrome on Windows, and Google Voice because of no replacement.

I'm not complaining because I'm locked in by Google, I've switched to Safari on OS X with no issue at all - I don't miss Chrome in the slightest. Yet, on Windows, Firefox is proving to be a hurdle.

It's on Mozilla, not Google. Imo

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

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Post by notheguyouthink »

joelrunyon wrote: post #19
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/…

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.

Do you like Brave? I've not done too much research on alternate browsers, but at this point as long as I trust the company I'd be willing to try it.

Cliqz is another one I thought about trying, but it is based on Firefox so I'm a bit dismayed haha.

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

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Post by notheguyouthink »

lol768 wrote: post #4
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/…

Personally I've found the recent Nightly with the new Rust CSS engine to be pretty snappy. I'd say anecdotally faster than Chrome. There was also a recent post regarding having large numbers of tabs open in Firefox (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823807 ) and it did pretty well.

Yea I'm definitely going to try switching to Nightly based on the comments here. As well as adjusting some of the configuration. Thanks!
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