Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control

Posted by bkma 5 hours ago

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Comment by fasbiner 2 hours ago

Mozilla leadership are quite literally ex-google and current google loyalists, who are paid to create the appearance of a competitive browser landscape for regulators, judges, and lawmakers who started out obtuse and are now increasingly openly bribed.

Mozilla's job is to go through the motions of competing for regulatory obfuscation, not to ever actually compete. That's why the salaries at this non-profit keep going up as Mozilla marketshare keeps going down.

If they wanted to actually compete they could integrate with LMStudio or similar to give their non-technical users locally running open models, that would be maximally opt-in and privacy preserving. It wouldn't even take that long.

Instead, we get another resume-padding fake "product" for someone to put on their resume before it's quietly forgotten, all for a browser with 3% marketshare and plummeting.

Comment by ferfumarma 40 minutes ago

kayfabe competition.

Comment by digitalPhonix 3 hours ago

There’s no info on what the AI does? Or where the AI runs? Or anything really?

Is it just Mozilla testing the waters with the announcement?

Comment by bkma 8 minutes ago

Their announcement does not reveal much, perhaps signing up will reveal more. But I am hesitant to do that since I don't even know if I want this feature.

On the other hand, are they even listening to their users or are they just adding AI to everything?

Comment by Hackbraten 4 hours ago

Mozilla still doesn't get it.

Comment by sherr 3 hours ago

Get what?

The page says this thing will be opt-in. As it also says, they can't ignore the effect AI is having in the world. I'm not much of a fan of a lot of this effect, but see some benefits in places.

Comment by conartist6 1 hour ago

They could ignore it. Why not? I switched from Chrome to FF and FF hard-locks 3x a day for me now. Force quit, start over. Is an AI window going to stop me going back to Chrome? Who cares if FF has an AI window if FF is too janky to be a good web browser... It's just lipstick on a pig.

Comment by embedding-shape 50 minutes ago

> FF hard-locks 3x a day for me now

That's not normal, and certainly not a typical reason people avoid Firefox. Have you given it a try and investigated if this is solvable? Sounds like one of those issues that if you ignore, it'll just pop up elsewhere with some other program.

Comment by yupyupyups 1 hour ago

>FF hard-locks 3x a day for me now.

I've never had this problem. Which OS do you run?

Comment by m4rc3lv 23 minutes ago

Wat is an AI window?

Comment by conartist6 1 hour ago

"The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone."

Does this just mean "the basilisk is coming and we want to make sure we're seen serving it"

Comment by kotaKat 2 hours ago

How many more obscure lines will I need to add to my prefs to shut the AI Window up, even if it's "opt in"? How many lines are we up to now to defang the browser?

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