chuckharmston

There is: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection

Mozilla isn't neutral politically, though there isn't a specific political alignment that is endorsed. That is, it's issue-focused, rather than partisan.

We have a strongly-worded manifesto that lays out what we believe: https://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto/

Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation, talking about how the current political environment in America might overlay that manifesto: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2017/03/13/the-worldview-of-...

I'm an employee at Mozilla, though am trying to set personal politics aside to present public explanation of our institutional viewpoint.

Followup: after using Snooze Tabs personally for a few days, it struck me that this is actually a pretty natural feature for Snooze Tabs. Filed a bug for that:

https://github.com/bwinton/SnoozeTabs/issues/208

Test Pilot team member here.

I don't think that such an experiment is being considered right now, but we definitely take pitches! Our Discourse would be a great place to do give one: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/c/test-pilot/develop...

It should be available in the next month as they finish off the brand guide. The partner type foundry is also expanding to include Cyrillic and Indic character sets.

The roadmap includes support of a number of additional video providers: https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/6

Additionally, they're looking at supporting any old HTML5 <video> element: https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/331

The intent is certainly not to be exclusionary; it's just a new, experimental project with a small team.

Disclaimer: I work at Mozilla, on Test Pilot.

You can check the compatibility of popular add-ons here: https://www.arewee10syet.com/

A doorhanger is a term for this sort of warning notification: http://i.imgur.com/huWjWjq.png

As 6a68 mentioned, Firefox presents this doorhanger whenever any site other than addons.mozilla.org attempts to install an add-on.

I agree, it is a daunting problem.

Another problem is that it's hard to experiment in the browser; the stakes are very high when bugs or poorly-conceived ideas quite literally break the internet for users. As a result, the development cycle is righteously slow (~18 weeks), the cost of landing code in Firefox is righteously high, and it's just a difficult environment to try new things.

On Test Pilot we aren't trying to build the solution, we're trying to find it. It's a different model of product development than we've historically had at Mozilla. In this case, side tabs are the start, but you can expect new features and concepts to start coming down the pipeline as we start gathering feedback and data about how people use them.

Potentially!

The simple story is that the current tabbing model in was designed to save you from needing half a dozen browser window open. It just doesn't scale well past a dozen tabs or so, and we know that some users have dozens or even hundreds open at the same time. Tab Center is taking a fresh look at the problem with that in mind.

Hmm...that doesn't sound like normal behavior; my uneducated guess would be that there's a specific webpage or extension with a leak. Next time it happens, it'd be fantastic if you could go to about:memory, save the reports, and file a bug with them attached:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox

Firefox itself is quite fast [1]; if you're having issues, there's a good chance that it's due to an add-on [2]. A (historically; I'm unsure if this is still the case) particularly egregious offender [3] is AdBlock Plus, but µBlock [4] does come highly recommended.

[1] http://arewefastyet.com

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-m...

[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...

[4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock/

Some details of the new Yahoo experience are available on their corporate Tumblr: http://yahoo.tumblr.com/1313

It's worth noting that Google isn't disappearing from Firefox; you will still be able to manage your search engines as you have before.

Depending on your needs, there's a developer/reference device coming out soon:

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/02/developer-momentum-2/