Why do they waste resources on AI?
Fucking Christ the people that run Mozilla have brain worms. They are at the 10 yard line and just need to run it in, but they’ve tied their shoes together. Chrome enshitification is at light speed, and edge sucks and always sucked. All they have to do is the basics and they will become popular again.
Well stated. I couldn’t fuck it up worse if I was doing it on purpose.
…this might just push me onto a different browser. WHY?
Because they allowed AI and ad-revenue lovers into their leadership. This was predicted like 2 years ago.
Just use one of the forks that removes all the bloat from firefox.
I’m starting to feel like, just as the solution isn’t to debloat Windows, the solution isn’t to debloat Firefox.
I think I need something new.
I havent used windows since version 7, but debloating makes sense when it’s fast and effective like it still was with Windows 10. With Windows 11 it’s so hard to debloat the OS that it just doesn’t make sense anymore.
My point is as long as it’s easier to debloat, than to switch completely its valid and installing a debloated firefox is easy af.
On mobile there’s a browser that is gecko based but not Firefox based It’s called WebLibre but there’s no other option for desktop as far as I know
i looked at their readme:
Local AI Assistance: Use on-device AI models to group tabs and manage containers effortlessly.
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It’s a SLM not a LLM it has existed since a long while in its simple form it has gotten advanced now from spellchecking to understanding what the text means, it doesn’t need to crawl every day for data you train it once on a much smaller training set stuff like LanguageTool have used it for a long time, and it uses way less power it’s not the bad kind of AI.
JFC no one wants this, stop being shit.
They can’t help themselves.
I honestly don’t see much of a future for Firefox with all the recent push towards becoming just another corporate slop browser. We already have enough of those.
So is there an alternative to Firefox that works across devices and let’s me run a decent adblocker?
Librefox
My question precisely. If you find one, please let me know.
librewolf, mullwad browser
Hello there! I see you’re trying to read a website…
The guys on late night Linux talked about this a while back. I don’t think it’s necessarily the right strategy for Firefox, but it’s helpful context.
Basically, mozilla isn’t doing this for us. We’re already firefox people. They’re don’t it for other people, and corporations, who are not already ff users.
I can see how something like this could diminish barriers for non users.
For my own part I hope librewolf or some other fork excludes these features.
Diminish barriers for a Web browser?
Yes. For some users no AI assistant would be a barrier to adoption.
Nobody I know would want that. Just curious, for what kind of person would this be a desired feature?
Again, you and the people you know aren’t the market they’re trying to attract.
I dont really know who would want it, but obviously mozilla does, presuming they’ve done some market research.
My guess would be managed corporate infrastructure.
I know some corporates. I don’t think anyone wants chat in their browser.
