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 10 months ago
Unfortunately, Firefox is investing a ton of money into AI, too.
doodledup@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A desperate attempt of revenue diversification.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
And it will loose Google’s deal money.
vivendi@programming.dev 10 months ago
Mozilla works mainly on LOCAL AI not this corporate trash like closedAI
Bazimon@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Look into Waterfox instead.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 months 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).