We don't know exactly what's going to happen with Tab Center--or any of these experiments--in the long run. Our goal here is to get feedback from our users to drive successive UX and engineering iterations.
Once experiments have incubated in Test Pilot for awhile, we will have a number of options depending on each experiment's overall success. We may push them over to AMO, or integrate them directly into the browser. If an experiment is really unsuccessful, we may simply cut our losses and walk away. Test Pilot should help us make these decisions more quickly and effectively.
We'll be blogging more about the overall Test Pilot pipeline in the weeks to come. Stay tuned!
What if nothing ultimately makes a significant proportion of users switch from Chrome to Firefox?
When will Mozilla stop flailing and just go back to making a good browser, like they did when they just had a couple thousand users? When they're fully defeated by the multi-market behemoth again?
I still appreciate that Mozilla saved the web from IE, and I still use firefox because it's not yet multi-process and thus not yet multi-gigabytes-memory.
Not to be too snarky, but we have more than a couple thousand users these days. You can round up any given thousand users and they will all give you different answers as to what "making a good browser" means.
Once experiments have incubated in Test Pilot for awhile, we will have a number of options depending on each experiment's overall success. We may push them over to AMO, or integrate them directly into the browser. If an experiment is really unsuccessful, we may simply cut our losses and walk away. Test Pilot should help us make these decisions more quickly and effectively.
We'll be blogging more about the overall Test Pilot pipeline in the weeks to come. Stay tuned!