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Hey, that's actually the wrong link for the search add-on.

What you've downloaded is a deprecated earlier prototype that may not work at all--you're looking at the wrong github repo. (I just took down the built add-on, so other people don't make the same mistake.)

Test Pilot is about reconnecting desktop Firefox with its community; it's about more than just whatever add-ons are available today. We have feedback forms now, we'll have Discourse user forums integrated soon, and I hope we can eventually start building ideas that come from the community, with the help of the community. You should give it a try :-)

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Thanks for the heads-up regarding that link, I've edited the post just to try and prevent any confusion.

I can totally understand wanting more community involvement in the feedback process and with this context, the account requirement makes a lot more sense. Thanks for explaining some of that reasoning. I only wish this was documented a bit better on the site - I guess it just appeared a little unwelcoming to me with the sign-in requirement at first.

Now that I've actually tried it, the site itself is very slick and the experiments I've played with look pretty interesting. I look forward to seeing how things develop.

Thanks for editing your post :-)

I agree, it's tough to understand much about the project based on the testpilot.firefox.com landing page. That page is tightly focused around the 'sign up' call to action.

You can get more context from hanging around in IRC, or poking around in the wiki or bug trackers. You can even join our team meetings if you want; they're public. Pretty much everything is linked from our main wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Test_Pilot

> Test Pilot is about reconnecting desktop Firefox with its community.

Given the level of Mozilla tone-deaf-ness wrt. the recent forced and poorly thought through Addon Signing process, this can only be a good thing.

(Seriously, introduction of mandatory addon signing has now been postponed by five major release versions. Time to admit it was a crappy idea and just scrap it?)

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