Mozilla Kills Its Experimental Firefox Test Pilot Program 3 Years After Launch (venturebeat.com)

Mozilla has announced that it is closing Firefox Test Pilot, an experimental program it launched three years ago. Firefox Test Pilot allowed users to try out potential new built-in Firefox features and offer feedback to the browser maker. The company says the program was used by an average of 100,000 daily users. A report adds: It's worth noting here that Test Pilot is separate from the various beta versions of Firefox, which are early iterations designed to fine-tune features intended for the prime-time Firefox. Test Pilot, on the other hand, is more about Mozilla dipping its toes in the water to see whether a new feature is worth pursuing at all in the main version of the app, or even as a standalone product. Ultimately, it allows Firefox developers to take bigger risks with their ideas.

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Re:Mozilla kills everything it touches.

[Bradmont]

The problem is that software doesn't get adopted for being the best, it gets adopted by being well marketed, which is pretty much antithetical to FLOSS software, unless it's sponsored by a massive company, like Google's rendering engine.

Re:Mozilla kills everything it touches.

[cascadingstylesheet]

And if you're going to say it, Pale Moon already sold out blocking noscript and other blocking tools.

Huh?

I'm reading /. with current PaleMoon, with NoScript, right now.

So, what are you talking about?

Re:Mozilla kills everything it touches.

[hairyfeet]

Uhhh Pale Moon just replaced NoScript with uBlock Origin due to issues with NoScript ABE support (and the guy running NoScript adding sites to the default allow list for extra revenue) and they even added a handy extension that downloads the latest version compatible with PM so you don't need to know which version works with FF and which with PM. Works quite well.