Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 days agoVivaldi is Chromium based, that’s like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
There are plenty of Firefox forks that will be actively removing the AI crap. Waterfox, Pale Moon, Librewolf, Zen, Floorp to name a few. And these will all continue to support Manifest v2 and therefore adblockers. en.wikipedia.org/…/Category:Web_browsers_based_on…
iglou@programming.dev 2 days ago
Yes. And? It is open source, and Vivaldi modifies it heavily.
You’re criticizing browsers based on “Shitty Browser A” while promoting browsers based on “Shitty Browser B”. Both categories are heavily modified and just as viable.
People need to stop being scared of Chromium-based browsers.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Specially, nobody needs more Chromium based browsers.
iglou@programming.dev 2 days ago
Unforunately, there is no solid alternative at the moment. Firefox used to be great, but the quality of the browser has been consistently declining for years now. In terms of features, stability, and accuracy. The various forks I tested back when I couldn’t deal with Firefox’s issues had the exact same issues.
At least Vivaldi is european.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
There are Firefox forks to circumvent AI. But even if there weren’t, I’d be using GNOME Web before bending to Google’s Chromium. If Vivaldi Chromium promises no AI, and LibreWolf Firefox promised the same, why on Earth would I go to Google’s camp?