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I’m not going to argue for AI features in Firefox, but I’m curious which features you feel are a priority?
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 wouldn't like to rely on manifest v3 compliant ad blocking.
I get the impression that Firefox may continue to lag in this regard, and I don't feel that people like us are made vulnerable by this, though I do worry about people like my parents.
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.
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.
Right. Like what features?
Improving webapp functionality rather than stuffing more and more AI down our throats, for instance.
Full profile sync would be nice
What parts of the profile aren't synced?
Search settings, UI customizations, vertical tab settings, extension settings all come to mind.
If i didn't have to redo all my customizations on a fresh install, I might actually cry tears of joy (i like to try different os and write my laptop regularly, so this is a legitimate annoyance for me)
I dunno about that guy. I'd like proper PWA support. Better VR integration. Both in Linux.
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).
Off the top of my head:
would all be significantly more useful than any ai features the devs are currently working on.
I like all those!
A few bug/glitches I noticed and performance improvements are always welcome (I don’t think running ai services and integrations will improve performance)
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)
I use AI, but I can’t imagine wanting it inside the browser just randomly doing stuff.
I think this is just one of those things when people try to squeeze AI into Everything.
True.