Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Make a stable, privacy respecting, robust browser with a powerful extension environment? No let’s try do do chrome 2

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  • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I switched to FF after having enough of Chrome’s shenanigans. I don’t make changes easily, and I took the sacrifice of not being able to receive calls over Facebook (desktop browser, and some of my acquaintances wouldn’t leave FB), and I still preferred Firefox after that.

    And now they want to turn it into another Chrome? I could still just use Chrome and have the lost functionality. I mean I won’t, but they will just lose users with that direction.

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Here I am using browsers like apps. Chrome is my facebook app. I do zero else with it lol.

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I have sort of the same three browsers on all my machines.

        LibreWolf: to use

        Firefox: it’s the default browser and feels like it should still be installed. And just a couple times a year some website has a strange issue in LibreWolf but will work in Firefox. Honestly I’d rather do it this way than start weakening LibreWolf’s settings to make outlier sites work.

        Ungoogled Chromium: I’m sure it will come in handy some day.

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      • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Even though I’m aware Google would still have a lot of my data even if I deleted everything possible, but one of the main reasons I swapped (apart from the manifest V3 controversy) was the privacy problem (yes, I know, I’m still using Facebook, regardless). I haven’t thought of the container aspect, though - thanks for that.

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  • haloduder@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s definitely an issue with the culture among tech companies.

    They’re all regurgitating each other’s shit, so whenever a bad idea gets passed around, they all jump on board.

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    • perishthethought@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Every ignorant, fearing for their bonus CEO: "If we dont do that, we'll get left behind!"

      Feh! Feh I say!

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  • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How do you think they will do that without any money?

    It’s always “just do the browser” , ignoring the fact that everything you listed doesn’t matter at all to the general public who are likely using Chrome because it’s the default on their device.

    Mozilla is trying to find revenue sources but people just complain about it.

    The AI integration is clearly attempting to be a new search box.

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    • xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Look at the executives pay of Mozilla, there is a lot of money there to start with.

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      • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It isn’t though. At the higher end the last ceo was making 7 million. That is roughly 12 enginees after compensation and everything else… It isn’t nothing but it’s less than 5 percent of the employees they laid off a year ago.

        Increasing executive pay is a problem but it will barely move the needle.

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