Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

• 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.

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  • 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?

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    • iglou@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If your only criterium is the presence of AI, then of course it doesn’t matter.

      But Firefox has been degrading far before AI was even hyped. Mozilla basically gave up on its development as they lost their market share. Full of bugs, poor implementation of new standards, terrible optimization… That’s why I switched to a Chromium based browser. Not because of AI.

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      • super_user_do@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not only that, Firefox and Firefox-Based browser are at least 2x times slower than any chromium based browser. Vivaldi is not as quick as plain Chrome, but at least it mitigateas the privacy concerns of normal Google Chrome

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      • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        People keeps saying that, but I don’t think there are noticeable differences in performance between both engines. Gecko is competitive, the problem, I think, comes from the web developers not bothering to optimize or test under Gecko anymore.

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