Re:Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:22AM
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My first thought too. Firefox seems to be cramming stuff in as default recently that's really peripheral; strikes me we're approaching that point in the cycle where a new streamlined offering comes along and people start jumping ship to that. The place where Firefox started as a simple fast web browser without the bells and whistles.
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Re:Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s
by lmorchard on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:01PM
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The irony with your comment is that this is exactly one of the purposes of Test Pilot - to give new features a trial run rather than just "cramming stuff in as default".
It's an opt-in experiment, and at the end it's possible to a) be rolled in as a feature, b) spun off as an optional add-on, c) scrapped entirely.
Oh yeah, or d) taken back to the drawing board & re-engineered for another go-round.
Re:Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s
by pbhjpbhj on Saturday August 06, 2016 @09:43AM
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I've taken part in Test Pilot, so I'm aware of how it works. Hence the wording of my comment that it was my initial reaction.
The idea that it's appropriate as a plugin is in anticipation that they'd decide to integrate it like hello and pocket.
It's a feeling, there are all sorts of different browser efforts, FF just feels like we're getting to a point where it is drifting closer to the other browsers and getting heavier. YMMV.
Re:Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s
by Sylos on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:40AM
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Just so this is clear: This is not a new feature in Firefox. They are just giving people a way to test it and to give feedback. Depending on the response, it might then become a feature, but for now it's only a proposition.
Re:Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s
by seba_dos1 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:38AM
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As TFA says, it is a browser plugin.