Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are. Offer people all the slop extensions in the world and see who will download them.
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@tante you can't do 'AI' as opt-in, then no one would use it, because it's annoying and provides dangerous output and bad outcomes.
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@tante Mozilla needs to fix its personality issues before delivering a Firefox we can trust again. And I doubt it will.
@tante Use #Librewolf or #BraveBrowser instead.
Brave is my favourite, can be hardened very easy and is super smooth in handling.
@bsm Brave is a Chrome wrapper run by a homophobe that does weird crypto scams. It's worse than original Chrome
@tante Mozilla fired the Servo team that were doing this
@tante it would also probably be pretty sobering how many people actually go out and manually add those features if they're not shoved in your face by default.
@tante Waterfox is what you need.
@tante At first I thought this was a satire post...
Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure.
Lol, that's literally why they initially developed Firefox. I guess everyone has forgotten Mozilla browser and the bloatware that it used to be. Firefox was supposed to be the minimal, lightweight version with the bloat stripped out. But Mozilla forgot that ages ago...
Offer people all the slop extensions in the world and see who will download them.
They'd have like ten downloads a year. I think companies like these know that no one will willingly accept stuff like that being shoehorned in and jammed into everything it can't actually do and that's why they have to force it on us.
@tante which was kinda the idea when Firefox started as Phoenix over 20 years ago
@tante They certainly should - from a users point of view. From a commercial point of view, though, they must traffick unwanted shit to users, preferably in a way that cannot be avoided.
That used to be ads, via Google, but Google recently pulled the plug. So now they are shipping unwanted AI shit instead, for AI investors who want to be TechBro NextGen. And those certainly will suffer no switch to live (sorry, couldn't resist).
@tante i get the impression they *have* done a ton of work already to make the core performant and secure, that was what quantum and webrender were about. but then they laid off a bunch of people and didn't seem to have anything else major on their roadmap until LLMs came along.
as for why LLMs can't just be an addon yeah, they almost certainly could if they wanted; a lorem ipsum generator could stand in (disabled) for chat and summaries etc in a vanilla install.
@tante this could also lead to third party projects switching from chromium to firefox as a base. imagine a world where the ram crisis doesn’t matter because apps aren’t based on electron anymore and people remember that 16gb should be insane overkill for displaying text and images.
@tante great idea. I would sign a petition in that direction. And I think a lot of others would too.
