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

finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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whereIsTamara@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Right. Like what features?

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- Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Improving webapp functionality rather than stuffing more and more AI down our throats, for instance.
  
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- surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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- frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Full profile sync would be nice
  
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  - victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    What parts of the profile aren’t synced?
    
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    uninvitedguest@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Search settings, UI customizations, vertical tab settings, extension settings all come to mind.
    
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- finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I like all those!
    
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- gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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8uurg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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