Windows 10: Advance is now available from Firefox Test Pilot

Brink · Aug 7, 2018

The web runs on algorithms. Your search results, product recommendations, and the news you read are all customized to your interests. They are designed to increase the time you spend in front of a screen, build addiction to sites and services, and ultimately maximize the number of times you click on advertisements.

Without discounting the utility that this personalization can provide, it’s important to consider the cost: detailed portfolios of data about you are sitting on a server somewhere, waiting to be used to determine the optimum order of your social media feeds. Even if you trust that the parties collecting that data will use it responsibly, it has to live somewhere and has to be transmitted there, which makes it a juicy target for bad actors who may not act so responsibly.

At Mozilla we think the web deserves better, and we believe that we are uniquely positioned to offer you the best of both words:
"Browsers could do so much more, through a better understanding of your behavior and by using the experience of people at human-scale to give you content that enriches your life, regardless of whom you know or where you live."
A number of ongoing Firefox projects attempting to provide these benefits with Mozilla’s sensibilities:

The Pocket team is experimenting with a privacy-conscious approach to sponsored content.

Intern Florian Hartmann is investigating use of a machine learning technique that does personalization locally, only sharing models with a central server, rather than the data used to produce those models.

The Firefox Pioneer program allows users to opt-in to sharing their data with us to help us develop these products.

Today, I’m pleased to announce the next of these efforts: Advance, now available on Test Pilot.

Introducing Advance

Advance offers you a new type of forward button, making real-time content recommendations from elsewhere on the web.

Advance offers contextual recommendations based on the pages you are currently visiting.

Over time, these recommendations will become personalized to your interests, learning from your interactions with the experiment and the broader internet. In addition to recipes, try it out with book reviews, blog posts, and news stories. We think Advance will help you find your next favorite thing.

Over time, recommendations become personalized to your interests.

We’re launching Advance in collaboration with Laserlike, a machine learning startup that has built a web scale content search, discovery and personalization platform. They’re our trusted partners on this project, and we’re so grateful for their help in advancing our mission.

We’re trying to prove that we can use these technologies in the right way, and refuse to sacrifice user control to do so. The experiment is opt-in, and at any time you may pause its data collection. You are able to view the data that Advance has collected about you, and may request the deletion of that data at any time.

Advance is available today from Firefox Test Pilot. Try it out, and tell us what you think. You’re helping to shape the future of Firefox.
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Source: Advancing the Web - Firefox Test Pilot - Medium

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zekrahminator · Aug 7, 2018

Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 released for developer testing.

Mozilla released the Beta 2 of Firefox 2.0 today for developer testing, and would like to emphasize that it is for testing. The developer team says that "Current users of Firefox 1.x should not use Firefox 2 Beta 2 and expect all of their extensions and plugins to work properly." Firefox 2.0 should be released in early 2007, with a few more beta versions likely in Autumn and Winter. According to the developer team, some features of the new firefox are...

Enhanced visual effects.

Built in Phishing protection.

Improved tabbed browsing.

The ability to restore closed tabs.

New Windows installer to resolve some long standing issues.

The Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 should be available on the main site soon.

Source: Desktop Linux

Mick_H1 · Aug 7, 2018

Firefox 1.1 beta now available.

As the title suggests, Firefox 1.1beta is now available for download. There's a few new features, like zooming with the volume/zoom rocker switch. Screenshots and feature list here:

Firefox 1.1 Shots & FL. Download link here: FF Download link.

Might give it another try sometime.

Sasqui · Aug 7, 2018

Overclocking / Undervolting guide for Vega 56 or 64?

Here's a quick laundry list:

List of software to use for overclocking and testing
Examples:
Wattman (and how to find and use it, like an overview, including profiles)
Unigine Valley or Heaven (use this for quick testing while changing settings in Wattman and checking for stability / artifacts) ...just suggesting this
How to monitor cores / mem speeds and temps during testing (I've seen screen overlays, and others using GPUz)

Step-by step overclocking in Wattman
Fan speeds
Power limit
Temp limit
Voltages
Core speeds
Memory speeds

Windows 10: Advance is now available from Firefox Test Pilot

Advance is now available from Firefox Test Pilot

Advance is now available from Firefox Test Pilot

Advance is now available from Firefox Test Pilot

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