Comments on: Test Pilot Update

By: awesomness

awesomness — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:24:06 +0000

how do you get test pilot? plz reply someone

By: Art Kocsis

Art Kocsis — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:41:28 +0000

Good idea as far as it goes but personally it seems like deciding which color to paint over rust instead of repairing the rust prone components. So much time and effort was wasted on trying to ascertain optimal locations and/or configurations of menu/tool/navigation bars – trying to make one size fit all is impossible. It would have been much easier to make the location and content of all of these bars user configurable (similar to Opera) – we are NOT all alike! Fitt's Law design is a real PITA and only works for maximized windows (which many of us do NOT use). It requires twice as many clicks on a Mac to do simple operations.

I think more effort should be made to make Firefox reliable and useable. For example, fixing memory leaks. FF 3.6 memory use increases from ~300K to over 2 GB in the course of a day until it either crashes or becomes too slow to be useable. CPU useage frequently maxes out at 100% as well. These are hair pulling frustrations – not irksome inefficiencies.

Additionally, I think more effort should be placed facilitating the gathering/accepting of user feedback – both problems and/or suggestions/requests. Requiring users to submit bug reports is a show stopper. For example, what extensions are most widely used? Which are most important (make/break), to users? Should be included in next release? For example I use TabKit to locate my tabs along the left side. This allows me to easily control the width of the tab titles (click & drag), to easily read 30 open tabs, eliminates one "toolbar" entirely and makes moot the entire discussion of vertical location. I would be happy to test v4.0 but since TabKit is not compatible (yet) it is too painful to be restricted to a horizontal tab bar.

By: Alex Brookmyre

Alex Brookmyre — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:04:12 +0000

Really interested in this, not a programmer or anything like that but I know my way around computers and will be able to report any bugs I find.

By: Alex Brookmyre

Alex Brookmyre — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:03:29 +0000

Really interested in this, not a programmer or anything like that but I know my way around computers and will be able to report any bugs I find.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:25:06 +0000

What a smart idea.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:33:53 +0000

Outstanding concept, looking for true feedback from users, what will they think if next? 99% of today’s companies would shrink back in horror at this concept….

By: gerdk

gerdk — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:45:10 +0000

Hello,

I would like it very much to participate in this project.
I’m looking forward to some activities….

By: Stanley Baker

Stanley Baker — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:43:28 +0000

I am not a programmer or expert but I am willing to help if it will be of assistance. I have done beta work in the past and know my way around computers so if that is of any use please include me and I will be happy to make a difference..

By: eva

eva — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:00:23 +0000

I tried to install this, but the button does nothing.

By: John Lenihan

John Lenihan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:44:27 +0000

Sorry but im not buying it.
Why don’t you people just start
a tech support site…instead of
trying to sell personal info
to other companys for a profit.
You people are getting dumber by the day.