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RmDebArc_5@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

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It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

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RmDebArc_5@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Just like Google plan with Chrome, Mozilla aren't sitting still on expanding Firefox into something resembling a web browser but with more AI.
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    Firefox to evolve into not existing.

  • termaxima@slrpnk.net
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    But why !? Chatbots are useful enough, I don’t need AI anywhere else than when I explicitly choose to use it on my terms !

    You wanna make money ? Make a chatbot that lies less and/or doesn’t reinforce people into their delusions, or one that runs for cheaper, or both.

    AI is useful. Just like knives are useful. Doesn’t mean I want every object I own to also somehow be or contain multiple knives 😅

    More often than not, a faster horse is actually all we need.

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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    Bring on ladybird!

  • AlexLost@lemmy.world
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    Hey tech companies. Consumers do not want more AI, they want less of it. Maybe we just need to get the word out?

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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      I want it

      • AlexLost@lemmy.world
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        I was saying boo urns! We get it. You are being served. The rest of us are being forced.

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
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    how would this afffect the forked versions like Waterfox, LibreWolf, IronFox? The AI part is a separated feature from mainline Firefox branch, so forks can choose not to include it?

    • yessikg@fedia.io
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      For now

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    WTF man, I just want a fucking browser.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      No you don’t, now suck down your government mandated AI slop and say thank you — you philistine.

    • Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world
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      I recommend waterfox and the DuckDuckGo browser, at least those 2 are good at least

      • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
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        Ducks browser runs on chrome though I highly recommend using anything but that because it contributes to chromes monopoly over the web.

        Really excited for Ladybird and to see what Servo ends up being used in. Sad to see what Firefox is doing.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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    Nope, time for a new browser.

  • kaotic@lemmy.world
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    https://www.waterfox.com/

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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      Fuck waterfox use an actual trust worthy fork like librefox

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    I like to imagine that these CEOs just get like a million AI emails a day from alt accounts of Sam Altman begging them to put AI in everything and they’re all too stupud to realize it.

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    LibreWolf all the way

  • RazTheCat@lemmy.world
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    They have pushed me back to Vivaldi.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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      So chrome? Why the fuck would you use chrome that’s awful

    • pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Not open source.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    Well hopefully the different forks have their ducks in a row to strip all these “features” out down the road. So glad I use LibreWolf and not Firefox proper anymore

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    Waterfox, Ironfox, Librewolf

    • pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Zen?

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
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      Netscape Navigator 4

    • sunbeam60@feddit.uk
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      Yes but all of these depend on the development team at Firefox. I don’t know what the solution is, but I do know that those three browsers would not continue if Firefox didn’t also continue. There’s still a lot of development work from Firefox.

      At this point I think the safer route would be to just accept the Chromium hegemony and build a free browser from that.

      • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Firefox still at least have a far far far more permissive OSS license than Chromium, so I’d say stick with that

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    A non beneficial mutation at best.

  • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Yeah this ain’t it chief. Hope we can nuke the feature into oblivion, but we all know that won’t be possible as Firefox enshittifies

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