Mozilla introduces Price Wise and Email Tabs Test Pilot experiments

[nir]

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The Mozilla Firefox Test Pilot team has just announced two experimental features called Price Wise and Email Tabs. The Price Wise experiment allows U.S. users to add items to a watch list and get price comparisons from Amazon, Best Buy, The Home Depot, eBay, and Walmart. The Email Tabs experiment, in contrast, is available no matter your location and allows you to send tabs via email while preserving the page format.

 

With Price Wise, users based in the United States can begin adding items to the Price Wise watch list; when there’s a price drop at one of the supported retailers, users will get a green notification. When you check the list you’ll be able to see by how much the price fell as a percentage, as well as the new price. Clicking on the item will take you through to the relevant store page.

 

 

With Email Tabs, you can connect your Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or Outlook account and begin sending browser tabs as emails.

 

What’s unique about this feature is that you have multiple styling options. You can either send a link with a screenshot attached inline, you can send links alone, or you can send a link with the full articles attached, formatted for email.

 

In their announcement, Mozilla also said that it is graduating several experiments. The Send experiment which lets you upload and encrypt large files up to 1GB for sharing online is going to be updated and unveiled officially later this year.

 

Meanwhile, the Color experiment that lets you customise elements of the browser, and the Side View experiment that lets you see different browser tabs in the same tab, will become stand-alone extensions.

 

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[Karlston]

2 hours ago, nir said:

With Email Tabs, you can connect your Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or Outlook account and begin sending browser tabs as emails.

 

Link broken.

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/email-tabs

 

 works.

[Matrix]

 

 

In brief: Firefox's Test Pilot program has acted as the proving grounds for a wide variety of interesting features for some time now. The latest example of this trend is 'Price Wise,' a Mozilla-made beta extension that can track price changes for products found on Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and other digital retailers.

With Black Friday on the horizon, keeping track of the hottest tech deals across the web can be a challenging prospect. We do our best to keep you up-to-date on some of the better offers with our regular Deals posts, but those can only cover so much ground.

That's where Firefox comes in, if browser developer Mozilla has its way. As part of the company's "Test Pilot" beta program, users will now be able to test the "Price Wise" Firefox extension.

Price Wise can track price changes for any products you choose across five major digital retailers: Walmart, Amazon, eBay, Best Buy, and The Home Depot, specifically. Mozilla chose these specific websites because they were "among the top 10" online shops visited by Firefox users.

 

 

Mozilla's latest extension isn't complicated to use. All you need to do is visit the page of a product you want to track, click the "Price Wise" icon in the top-right corner of Firefox, and select "Add This Product."

All products you do this to will be added to a simple list, which includes a thumbnail of the item, its current price, and a colored percentage indicating whether the price has risen or lowered. If this functionality sounds like your cup of tea, snagging Price Wise is as easy as signing up for the Test Pilot program and downloading the extension.

However, as useful as Price Wise sounds, it's important to note that it's only a beta feature at the moment. As such, it could be heavily tweaked or scrapped entirely down the line.

 

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