Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

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• mellowheat@suppo.fi ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  …substack.com/…/firefox-money-investigating-the-b…

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  • laverabe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    paywall

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could we just have the AI part separately? I want an AI that can help me around the house by learning all my books and documents in case someone needs a specific photo of the babies or maybe needs to know a derivation of greens theorem or a recipe for kombucha.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s much more than an LLM. I get where you’re going, and I legitimately want it as well, assuming it’s local of course. But we aren’t there yet.

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• gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, what is else out there? Can the guys making adblocker just make a browser or so?

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  • atyaz@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Making a browser from scratch would be very difficult. SerenityOS has one, but idk how usable it is.

    Besides Firefox, I guess the least evil options would be something webkit-based. There are a few of those.

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    • laughterlaughter@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apple didn’t even build a browser from scratch. They took Konqueror’s KHTML engine, then built Webkit with it.

      We could do the same with Firefox. As the matter of fact, there are already forks out there, like IceWeasel, Librewolf, Pale Moon, etc.

      What’s going to happen is that one of those will start raising to the top. That’s exactly what happened with Firefox. Mozilla had the Netscape suite, open sourced it, then fucked it up. When it fucked it up, I decided to try one of the alternatives, Phoenix in this case. Then Mozilla decided to drop the Netscape Suite and adopted Phoenix, which eventually became Mozilla Firebird, and finally Firefox.

      I guess the cycle shall soon repeat.

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    • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For me chrome just worked better (Mac) but since adblock is mandatory for me I switched. Afraid that if ff will implement AI my experience will be even worse.

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