Mozilla Launches Experimental Voice Search, File-Sharing and Note-Taking Tools For Firefox (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday August 1, 2017 @07:20AM from the browser-features dept.

Firefox has just launched three new Test Pilot experiments that bring voice search, built-in note taking and a tool for sending large files to the browser. From a report: While the new voice search, which currently works on the Google, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo homepages, and note-taking features are browser plugins, the new Send tool is web-based and allows anybody -- no matter which browser they use -- to send files up to 1GB in size. It encrypts the file as it is uploaded and gives you a link you can share with your friends and co-workers. Files are automatically deleted after one download or after one day. That's not exactly the most novel concept (and Mozilla has often been criticized for diverting its attention from its core competencies), but the built-in encryption and the open-source nature of the tool do make up for that.

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Next Steps? by bobstreo · 2017-08-01 07:37 · Score: 1, Interesting

As a firefox user, I wonder if I'll ever see an emoji?
Or if I could actually watch netflix in my browser.
Glad to see they're working on features that will be so beneficial to their users.
Hopefully they use checksums on their file transfers, so they only need 1 copy of the 1080i version of the latest cam recording of latest movie.