Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Launches Three New Experimental Features

Posted by chuckharmston on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @01:12PM
from the blog.mozilla.org dept.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/09/28/three-new-test-pilot-experiments/

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Re:Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Launches Three New Experimen... by Crespyl on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @04:25PM (#12601050)

It's interesting to me that the Page Shot feature allows you to search your captured images by the text in the captured image.

At first I assumed they must be doing some OCR, but then it occurred to me that, since it's a browser addon with full access to the page, they could just grab the text straight from the selected DOM elements.

That's a clever extension of typical screenshot tools.

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Re:Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Launches Three New Experimen... by oridecon on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @05:04PM (#12601361)

This is amazing and from what I can tell the extension works great too.

Min Vid worked even with my highly customized YouTube (YTCenter and more).

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Re:Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Launches Three New Experimen... by m45t3r on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @05:47PM (#12601615)

These are the kinda of features that may make I go back to Firefox. This Min Vid actually looks like a great idea.

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Re:Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Launches Three New Experimen... by addicted on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:23PM (#12616398)

Loving these features. Test pilot seems a really nice way to expose some great extensions and then hopefully integrate as default features.

Good work by Mozilla.

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