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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 Sylos »

quanticle wrote: post #103

Is Mozilla committing publicly to supporting these new features for a significant period of time? I've been slightly wary of integrating new Firefox features into my workflow ever since they cut off support for Firefox Hello in Firefox 49.

No, not at all. These are in the Test Pilot program, which is specifically for trying new things and getting feedback if and how they should be included in Firefox.

So, most of these are not here to stay for the long term.

They might be included, they might be published as an extension either officially or just forked by someone, but overall, no guarantees on anything.

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

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Post by Sylos »

ancarda wrote: post #68
Dirlewanger wrote: post #66

I wish they'd stop focusing on the flavor-of-the-week technology gimmick bullshit and focus on making Firefox the better performing browser. Chrome outperforms it in nearly every way by margins that grow with every release. My reasons for sticking with FF grow fewer every day.

Are Mozilla paying for people to do these experiments or is it people sending patches? I don't know but I'd imagine a lot of it is the latter. Have you tried a recent Nightly? Firefox is getting faster: http://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-hu... [1]. As Mozilla continues to pull in code from Servo and implement e10s, Fiefox will perform better and crash less. [1] discussion: https://news.ycombina…

> Are Mozilla paying for people to do these experiments or is it people sending patches? I don't know but I'd imagine a lot of it is the latter.

As far as I'm aware, it is mostly developed by Mozilla employees, but heavily used for new devs to get their feet wet. Not only is it not mission-critical when they make mistakes there, they also get a ton of feedback on their work.

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

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Post by fasquoika »

SwellJoe wrote: post #96
woranl wrote: post #84

Mozilla should focus on building the browser instead of building app that competes with other developers. They need to start listening to the developers community and stop being arrogant and ignorant. You build the foundation, and developers build the app.

That's a weird take. Mozilla has a wide variety of developers, working on all sorts of things. One of those things is experiments to figure out what the browser "foundation" should actually include. I like that they're experimenting to figure out what good usability looks like and what the next generation of "browser" should deliver. Some things should just be there when you want them...not an app you install separat…

>large file sharing maybe?

From what I can tell their new file sharing feature is actually just a mozilla hosted web app.

see: https://send.firefox.com/

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

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

ohthehugemanate wrote: post #80
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/…

When did you try? I've been on Firefox developer edition for awhile now, because it's just SO MUCH FASTER than chrome, especially on high tab volume.

seconding Firefox developer, although still have problems when it has been open for a while, evidently because it needs to update.

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

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Post by Sylos »

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.

https://www.reddit.com/comments/6qwf3s/comment/dl0hrsi

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

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Post by Sylos »

SwellJoe wrote: post #97

Somehow, I assumed "Notes" would be "notes for this page". But, it's just a notepad...no awareness of where I am. That's much less interesting/useful than I thought it would be. Is there a browser plugin out there that provides a notes sidebar for the page you're currently on, and allows flipping through the notes with a link to the pages they relate to? Because that'd be awesome. Googling only reveals some kitschy "…

They've launched these specifically to gather feedback, so do put that into the feedback form. These are in no way finalized and it's definitely possible that they'll take that into account.

I believe the initial inspiration for this was people asking for a place to quickly jot things down that they'll then copy over into other applications, so might be a bit awkward to get those two use-cases under one hood, but I'm sure they'll try, if the demand exists.

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

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Post by petre »

Sylos wrote: post #128
petre wrote: post #117

What 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…

I already have uBlock Origin on Firefox on the desktop. It shoudn't be enabled by default but a content blocker would be an useful addition to a browser rather than notes, voice, pocket, chat and who knows what lass than useful feature they might think of next.

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

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Post by Drdrdrq »

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/…

I find FF actually faster than Chrome. But maybe that's because I actually open multiple tabs which load in background, then I just switch between them. Though to be fair, I never knew about this difference... It just felt that Chrome is slower somehow.

I wonder if they are both the same, it's just that us users have learned different workflows based on strengths of each browser?

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

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Post by Drdrdrq »

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/…

I find FF actually faster than Chrome. But maybe that's because I actually open multiple tabs which load in background, then I just switch between them. Though to be fair, I never knew about this difference... It just felt that Chrome is slower somehow.

I wonder if they are both the same, it's just that us users have learned different workflows based on strengths of each browser?

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