New Mozilla CEO Says Firefox Will Evolve into a “Modern AI Browser” with AI Features That Can Be Turned On or Off by the User

- "People trust our brand." Not for much longer.
- "As Mozilla moves forward, we will focus on becoming the trusted software company." Sounds like you are doing the opposite.
- "People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does. They want to understand what’s happening and to have real choices." Cramming AI down our throats is not a choice.
- "AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off." Or how about don't put it in there to begin with. Let people who want to use it download an add-on or some sh1t.
- "...our business model must align with trust" Uh yeah, it's not though.
- "Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software". Oh good gawd, the bullsh1t is strong with this one.

I've been using FF since v1.0. Time to stop? Well I already have a good alternative with Ungoogled Chromium, which is my secondary/backup browser.
 
DrezKill said:
Sounds like you are doing the opposite
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They have been doing the opposite for a while with injecting ads into your homepage, doing activism instead of focusing on the software development.

AI is all well and good as long as it runs locally in a container and I decide what data it has access to. I'm not against AI, I have found it very useful in the past, I'm against cramming AI Into everything. This is not like Web2.0, it is literally web2.0. I can't wait for it to crash and burn.
 
DrezKill said:
I've been using FF since v1.0. Time to stop? Well I already have a good alternative with Ungoogled Chromium, which is my secondary/backup browser.
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As long as they make the AI features optional, I'm fine with them trying to evolve their browser. I don't mind their reading mode or few features that are missing in Chrome or Edge (save all open tabs as bookmarks or take a screenshot of the whole page, preserving the formatting). I'm sure there are many more features I'm not even aware of.
 
**** Firefox has been my go to for decades at this point.

But they've clearly been lost in the desert since the end of the browser wars where they helped propel a lot of pro-user features across the browser ecosystem. Talk about not understanding your userbase.

Whatever they do, I hope it doesn't feel forced. Even Microsoft with it's "shove co-pilot in everyone's faces all the time" is backing off it's AI strategy a bit because no one is biting. Imagine what it looks like for a relative nobody like Mozilla.
 
GodisanAtheist said:
Imagine what it looks like for a relative nobody like Mozilla.
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I'm sure that their developers are much more pragmatically inclined than M$ ones. Microsoft seems to have adopted a strategy of "show me how you can put AI into something and you get a dog biscuit as a reward" and then their developers get to work, wagging their tails and salivating at the thought of the dog biscuit :mad:
 
The web, as brought to you by AI.
It is a juncture of information control thats for sure, but so is Google, always has been.
Honestly i do ask lots of questions to chat gpt , medical questions , science, food, cooking , yogurt/ bread making, a little history. Well its better than Google, cause easier.
In any case, you never know when / if you are getting " the unbiased truth" so it is what it is, again same with search manipulation.
 
Unless it can do cool stuff like:

Bookmark all open tabs and categorize them according to topic

Start making a list of the download URLs being saved to clipboard and when done, start downloading them (one at a time or in parallel, depending on website's downloading restrictions)

Search within search results. This is a much needed feature. Instead of wading through pages of results, let AI narrow the results down even more.

And for people with thousands of items in their online libraries, a "Which of my libraries have this game or song or movie or ebook etc.?" feature.
 
igor_kavinski said:
Unless it can do cool stuff like:

Bookmark all open tabs and categorize them according to topic

Start making a list of the download URLs being saved to clipboard and when done, start downloading them (one at a time or in parallel, depending on website's downloading restrictions)

Search within search results. This is a much needed feature. Instead of wading through pages of results, let AI narrow the results down even more.

And for people with thousands of items in their online libraries, a "Which of my libraries have this game or song or movie or ebook etc.?" feature.
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That would be more copilot wouldn't it? integration into the OS as opposed as in the browser?
 
Grimlakin said:
That would be more copilot wouldn't it? integration into the OS as opposed as in the browser?
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Majority of my time is spent in the browser. As they say about ChromeOS, the browser IS the OS for a lot of people. If the browser AI can do all that stuff, it's better as then the experience would be uniform across MacOS, Linux and Windows.
 
igor_kavinski said:
Majority of my time is spent in the browser. As they say about ChromeOS, the browser IS the OS for a lot of people. If the browser AI can do all that stuff, it's better as then the experience would be uniform across MacOS, Linux and Windows.
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In don't know that I want a system that is a tablet where everything happens in the cloud 'for' me. But that's where I think the market is heading.
 
Grimlakin said:
In don't know that I want a system that is a tablet where everything happens in the cloud 'for' me. But that's where I think the market is heading.
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Chromebooks and smart phones have been around for a good while now
 
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