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

Post by jacquesm » Tue, Aug 01, 2017, 11:33 PM UTC

_frog wrote: post #90

jacquesm wrote: post #88

Browsers 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…

> 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. The good thing is that these are all separate browser extensions, none of which are bundled by default. So that's exactly the case.

Post by SubiculumCode » Tue, Aug 01, 2017, 11:59 PM UTC

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.

Post by SwellJoe » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 12:19 AM UTC

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.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 12:37 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #92

_frog wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. The good thing is that these are all separate browser extensions, none of which are bundled by default. So that's exactly the case.

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.

Post by 6ak74rfy » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 1:03 AM UTC

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 "…