Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird :
Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.
Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately, Firefox is investing a ton of money into AI, too.
doodledup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A desperate attempt of revenue diversification.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Considering how little they invest into their core product compared to all the other shit and how much money the top brass earns despite declining market share, I don’t think they’re hurting for money that much.
doodledup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can’t really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?
exu@feditown.com 3 weeks ago
Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also their initiative to recognise images and generate alt-text for screen-reader users.
My sister is blind and screen readers are close to useless on the web, so it was great to hear Mozilla is working on that.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
And it will loose Google’s deal money.
vivendi@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Mozilla works mainly on LOCAL AI not this corporate trash like closedAI
Bazimon@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Look into Waterfox instead.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
That really doesn’t solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they’re completely dependent on Firefox. You can’t just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).