Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148

• finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think you misunderstood what I said, or perhaps I wasn’t clear. I’m saying the killswitch should have been in place from day one when they started implementing ai features.

  That said, Mozilla seems to fundamentally misunderstand their market. The type of people who use firefox are generally pretty tech-savvy, and care about things like privacy and control over their experience. Rather than hone in on features that their users want, they have hitched their wagon to the ai hype train in an attempt to favor curry with the masses.

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  • 8uurg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Privacy concerns are valid when an external server needs to be queried, like if you were to use DeepL or Google Translate for this stuff, or for any LLM related muck, but they have been accounting for this already by making things work locally. For example, translations performed fully on device, and are an example of a feature I wanted.

    Like many here, the entire AI browser idea doesn’t appeal to me at all, but I also struggle to come up with ‘features their users want’ if I take myself as an example. I have previously used Vivaldi, and while it is much more full featured, it doesn’t add any features that I actually end up using frequently.

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  • whereIsTamara@lemmy.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right. Like what features?

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    • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Improving webapp functionality rather than stuffing more and more AI down our throats, for instance.

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Full profile sync would be nice

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What parts of the profile aren’t synced?

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I dunno about that guy. I’d like proper PWA support. Better VR integration. Both in Linux.

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      • whereIsTamara@lemmy.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m all onboard with PWAs. I’m super disappointed they have so little love in general. Web tech is great locally when it’s not wrapped in electron.

        If you’re a developer, have you worked with Wails? It’s like Tauri (rust) but in Go(lang).

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    • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A few bug/glitches I noticed and performance improvements are always welcome (I don’t think running ai services and integrations will improve performance)

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    • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Off the top of my head:

      • better/more consistent sync
      • container windows
      • setting a default container for ctrl+t (and maybe shortcuts for other containers)
      • a more user-friendly version of about:config
      • more control for automatic data deletion aside from manual and when firefox closes (e.g. delete history+cookies older than 30 days)

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      • whereIsTamara@lemmy.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I like all those!

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• vikingtons@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The graphene community in the past has pointed out Firefox’s incomplete content sandboxing implementation and suggested that other aspects of security are not up to chromiums standard. They pointed out other technical shortcomings as well, though I can’t recall them, I’m not sure how urgent they’d be.

  This was several years ago, and I’m not sure if any of this has been addressed, but I don’t think I wouldn’t like to rely on manifest v3 compliant ad blocking.

  I get the impression that Firefox may continue to lag in this regard. I don’t feel that people like us are made vulnerable by this, though I do worry a little bit about people like my parents.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think the majority of FF users are very interested in AI stuff.

  I use it. But more as a tool in a whole collection rather than as the single point of truth (as many others do)

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