So is RHEL.
Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery
nectar45@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Firefox is a good example of “either you die a hero or live long enoigh to see yourself become the villian”
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s also an example of a smaller company trying fight a mega Corp with infinite money, gained via unethical means.
People are shitting on Firefox while ignoring what they are up against.
I have no solution for their funding issue, what are they supposed to do? Charge for the browser or ads? There’s literally no other alternative and I don’t know what the solution is.
What I do know is that once FF dies and chrome fully owns the web we are well and truly fucked.
Honesty it might already be too late.
scholar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They could stop paying their CEO so much and hire a few more devs, refocus their identity on privacy and performance (their offline ai translation is actually really useful), and actually give people the sense that their donations will be well spent.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I could not disagree more.
Mozilla has used the most powerful cheat code in history: infinite money for free.
Google cannot let Mozilla go under or they would become an actual monopolist, triggering a lot of laws that would force them to diversifying/selling the browser.
They don’t want any of that headache so they’re pumping Mozilla full of money, making sure that they can always operate as “the other browser engine”.
The issue is that Mozilla’s management seems to be completely incapable of doing anything interesting. Instead of ensuring that Firefox is the lightest, most optimised browser on the market while also being packed full of features (or at least full-fledged add-ons, not this crap they have), they do… mostly nothing.
Their last major update was “vertical tabs”, something that Chromium-based browsers had for around a decade.
Their previous major update was integrating Pocket…
Meanwhile, PWAs still barely work, add-ons are still dependent on the website being loaded instead of working on the browser level, the whole thing still feels bulky.
Mozilla management needs to be replaced and then we might see some movement on the market.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You’re forgetting the fact that laws are currently only being triggered if said company slanders dear leader.
If Google kisses ass you best believe they would completely allow them to be a monopoly and would ignore any laws being violated
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Hinging their entire future on the bet that their country gets an easily manipulated dictator, when said dictator is 80 years old already, would be extremely short-sighted from Google.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s a fairly new development. And it might not last, depending on how the cheating goes next year.
So a more risk averse company might not test the waters just yet.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
How does adding AI help their funding?
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Are we pretending that lots and lots of people aren’t incredibly horny for AI right now?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Actual users hate AI. Shareholders love it. It’s a bubble and the business world is trying to force it everywhere they can to create a dependency.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
People are complaining about unnecessary bloat. That has nothing to do with them being the underdog.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Basically, Firefox only crushes a handful of elderly cats while everyone else crushes kittens by the shipload.
piefood@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
They could try asking for donations, while getting rid of the massive drains on their budget.
btaf45@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stop updating their browser every 5 minutes. Software that already works fine does not need continuious updates that will sooner or later subtract value.