This browser is more and more bloated... :-(
These featured come in an optional extension and your comment is fud.
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
#122Browsers should be browsers, not a way to get a whole bunch of trojan horse software installed on your machine. If I wanted voice search, file sharing and/or note taking I would find the appropriate piece of software for that task and install it separately. All this does is increasing the attack surface of the browser in a ridiculous manner providing features that only very few will use. File-sharing? What could poss…
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Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
#123Voice fill is awesome feature. Kudos to Mozilla :)
Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
#124I 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/…
Oh c'mon it's not that much slower. Some things feel chunkier (scrolling) but JS performance is 80%-90% of the way there.
Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
For now. And then because not enough people install them they will be bundled by default. This has happened over and over, for instance with sync, pocket and so on. The whole idea behind test pilot stuff is to trial stuff intended for future inclusion in the main distribution, getting it force-fed to be able to claim a large installed base is the logical next step.
You say that, but I've heard nothing about Tab Center (the Test Pilot vertical-tab sidebar) being folded into newer versions of Firefox. Luckily, a community member forked the old code and ported it to be a WebExtension so it still works with Firefox Nightly, but it really needs to be built-in to the browser for maximum polish.
There is the perfectly functional tree style tab extension. That's another waste of resources.
Really, Mozilla resource allocation is a mystery to me.
Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
#126Browsers should be browsers, not a way to get a whole bunch of trojan horse software installed on your machine. If I wanted voice search, file sharing and/or note taking I would find the appropriate piece of software for that task and install it separately. All this does is increasing the attack surface of the browser in a ridiculous manner providing features that only very few will use. File-sharing? What could poss…
The title is misleading. These are not part of Firefox. They are in the Test Pilot program, which is a way for Mozilla to gather feedback on what features they should include, how they should change them if they do include them and all in all is completely open-ended. They might also release these as extensions or somesuch. They are all coded as WebExtensions (except for that file-sharing thing, that's just a webpage), so that's very well a possibility.
Also, browsers already have code to record from your microphone, due to the WebRTC web standard, so it's not like this opens an entire new class of potential vulnerabilities.
Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
You say that, but I've heard nothing about Tab Center (the Test Pilot vertical-tab sidebar) being folded into newer versions of Firefox. Luckily, a community member forked the old code and ported it to be a WebExtension so it still works with Firefox Nightly, but it really needs to be built-in to the browser for maximum polish.
There is the perfectly functional tree style tab extension. That's another waste of resources. Really, Mozilla resource allocation is a mystery to me.
They are trying to move away from the old extension API (because maintaining that ate up a crap ton of resources, so don't come up with that move being a waste of resources) and Tree-Style Tabs is not yet compatible with this new API.
The Vertical Tabs test pilot thing was them demonstrating that it could be done (including to themselves, they need to test these APIs) and giving the community something to work with, should no other tree tab extensions crop up before the deprecation of the old API.
Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
#128What would be useful in FF is a content blocker, especially in the mobile version. Not pocket, file sharing apps, voice, notes. There are web apps for that.
Go into about:config and set "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled" to true. This is default-enabled in Private Browsing.
Also, uBlock Origin and similar are perfectly functional extensions. Takes just three clicks to install uBlock Origin on a fresh desktop Firefox installation.
If you're wanting to tell me that this content blocker should be default-enabled, good luck explaining to webpage owners that they won't make ad money off of Firefox anymore, but should still support it.
Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
They actually did, the recent switch to multiprocessing made a massive difference. I've been happily using Vivaldi for a few months now, but I'm tempted to go back to FF as the speed gap has been wiped out of late - only cold startups are a bit slower, actual pageload is absolutely on par or better. This on Mac, at least, but I expect it will have been similar on other platforms.
Last time I tried it still was slow... I'll give it another try.
Yeah, a lot has happened in the past few months. And there's still more things scheduled for the next few versions...
Re: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox
#130I 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.
Isn't Brave based on libChromium? At least on Linux