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Mozilla To Add Screenshot Sharing Feature To Firefox Test Pilot Program (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: [Softpedia reports:] "Mozilla plans to include a webpage screenshot sharing feature to Firefox as part of the Test Pilot program, a spokesperson confirmed to Softpedia. The new feature is called Page Shot, and will initially roll out on Firefox Test Pilot in late-Q3 of this year. The Firefox Test Pilot program allows users to test experimental Firefox features using a special add-on. Based on user feedback, those features will end up as built-in Firefox features, or self-standing add-ons." The pageshot.net website is now offline as Mozilla prepares to launch the add-on via Test Pilot, but Softpedia has the screenshots. You can view the screenshots here.
We've been able to share screenshots for almost 30 years now, this feature better have some neat use cases over traditional methods otherwise I'm sure this'll just be another bloat feature on an already pretty hefty browser.
Hey look! More features no one asked for!! Is Mozilla now in "throw a ton of shit at the wall and see what sticks" mode?
when did Flower+Shift+3/4 or Shift/CTRL/ALT+PrtSCR became such a difficult task that we need a "Feature" in the Browser for ScreenShots?!?!?!?
Mozila, bloat with gusto!
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What's next for Mozilla? How about a BUILT-IN notepad feature, so I can take handy notes?
or a a Basic Calculator? for math numbers? what i really need is a calculator inside my calculator
Coming soon:
Mozilla BUILT-IN Clock
This is another unneeded feature that is to be implemented when resources should be focused on the core purpose of the application. It is a web browser before it is anything else and, in my opinion, should get back to just being this. I don't want any one application to have everything in the kitchen sink as long as I can run multiple applications.
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Copy everything Chrome/Canary does.
In the next major release, Mozilla is going to add a full version of emacs to Firefox.
After that, systemd will be ported to emacs.
Then emacs will be rewritten on top of systemd.
The Systemd will be ported to ECMAscript running in Firefox's javascript.
Emacs will be recompiled to work in systemd.
Finally, Firefox will be rewritten in elisp on systemd on ECMAscript on firefox on emacs on systemd on emacs on the next older version of Firefox.
This will exhaust the the universe's available entropy pool, and the heat death of the universe will arrive billions of years prematurely. (But not without a collective sigh of relief).
My biggest concern with Mozilla is its high CPU and memory footprint. Even backgrounded on supposedly static pages it chews up CPU. People have been complaining about this for years, but Mozilla has continue to ignore it.... Instead they rip out bloatware A (their "Hello" video conferencing) and replace it with bloatware B (Screen Capture).
But there area already screen capture add-ons, just like there were video conferencing add-ons. Mozilla, What the fuck do you think you are doing?
I presume this would use the browser engine to render the screenshot giving you WYSIWYG screengrabs.
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It's like nobody around here cares about anything Mozilla does except whatever could potentially piss them off. Oh no! An experiment that some dude whipped up that won't ever be in Firefox proper! Time to get the pitchforks out and trot out the usual lame lines about how Firefox shouldn't dare to do anything that isn't already being done (fixing the browser, focusing on my personal browsing workflow, etc).
And no, I won't bother pointing out all the nifty stuff they're doing, because it's pointless. You'll all just obsess over how it's useless, awful, etc, because it's by Mozilla.
Once again Mozilla adds features it will later ax. All that we want is Servo and for the whole thing to run fast. Mozilla is lost. They abandon Thunderbird and create all these moronic features like Hello and even fail to implement Firefox Sync in a sane way until v2.
Make the switch to Palemoon. Fully customizable as Firefox once was before they started copying Chrome, and they're not getting rid of XUL either, offered a 64-bit Windows build long before FF, plus it is kept secure and up to date, and has an Android version that syncs with the desktop one. Firefox meanwhile keeps playing around with the UI and adding unnecessary bloat that would be better served as optional extensions for those who want them.
"..One hosts to look them up, one DNS to find them, and in the darkness BIND them."
Go for any "lightweight" browser then people will find out they still need lots of stuff it can't do and start to file feature requests, then it becomes the next bloated shit again.
...of pocket et al. Another feature nobody asked for, to solve a problem nobody was having.
I'm perplexed as to why this would need to be a browser feature?
Coming soon.... Firefox will run mysqldump with a click of a button.
In the Linux world, one can use ksnapshot to grab anything - including graphical text - intended to copy protected - and automatically send it to OCR - and have the text ready to copy and paste..
Without OCR the feature is pretty worthless..
There is no need for firefox to do any of this.. perhaps they should concentrate on providing a way to pause scripts on a tab basis when not viewed? Or better ways to identify tabs that are slowing things down?
Apparently there is already a screenshot feature described later on in this thread.