Mozilla is in a tricky position. It contains both a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet a better place for everyone, and a for-profit arm dedicated to, you know, making money. In the best of times, these things feed each other: The company makes great products that advance its goals for the web, and the nonprofit gets to both advocate for a better web and show people what it looks like. But these are not the best of times. Mozilla has spent the last couple of years implementing layoffs and restructuring, attempting to explain how it can fight for privacy and openness when Google pays most of its bills, while trying to find its place in an increasingly frothy AI landscape.
Fun times to be the new Mozilla CEO, right? But when I put all that to Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, the company’s just-announced chief executive, he swears he sees opportunity in all the upheaval. “I think what’s actually needed now is a technology company that people can trust,” Enzor-DeMeo says. “What I’ve seen with AI is an erosion of trust.”
Mozilla is not going to train its own giant LLM anytime soon. But there’s still an AI Mode coming to Firefox next year, which Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”
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Ive been wary if firefox since wheneved it was they decided it was okay to shove “pocket” into the browser. These days i dont see mozilla as anything other than anti monopoly insurance for google, which they obviously dont need anymore.
Mozilla as a company has just been a decade of one poor decision after another adding more bloat and doing nothing meaningful to counter chromes near monopoly.
Vivaldi isnt perfect and brave has its baggage, but at least they actually include adblocking out of the box, a feature that just about everyone wants. Sure its easy enough to install an addon to firefox for it but the fact that you even have to do that should tell you everything you need to know about who mozilla is actually working for.
Abandoned FF in 2021 and went on Brave because fuck Mozilla. No regrets. Vivaldi is cool as well, but I think that the adblocker is a bit weaker. I’d switch to it otherwise.
Librewolf has all of the good parts of Brave and none of the shitty parts
Still slower than Chromium plusI don’t want to give market share to Gecko because fuck Mozilla.
if you go into settings, you can manage sources and add additional filterlists.
I know. Still, it has a bit less flexibility isolation than Brave (fingerprint protection, ephemeral storage and so on).
I know. Still, it has a bit less flexibility isolation than Brave (fingerprint protection, ephemeral storage and so on).
Out of the frying pan, into the Brave fire. You might want to look at the controversy around Brave, if you haven’t.
Brave works fine for me and that’s all it matters. I don’t care about made up “controversies” of and internet drama. As if Mozilla didn’t fuck It up several times along it’s miserable history.
Mozilla is completely detached from its user base. They think their average user is a Microsoft enthusiast when in reality it’s a Debian enjoyer.
They have telemetry to track the number of installations on different systems
I guess I should turn the telemetry on so they’d see I’m using it on linux. Muh privacy
Is there like a petition or something we can all sign to show that literally no cunt wants this?
Uninstall it and pick a different platform. These cunts think you won’t and THATS why they don’t give a fuck. Enough people swap and oh, hey, maybe we should rethink this mistake. If not - not your problem… You already bounced.
If anyone has any suggestions for browsers hook me up, I’m running out of browsers with thier own engines to try. I don’t see much point in using, say, LibreWolf if the engine is still the same as Firefox (Gecko in this case). Maybe I’ll give NetSurf a try and pretend like it’s 1996 again.
edit i don’t see much point because doing some about:config shenanigans is nearly the same amount of work to me as switching browsers.
If all of the web engines enshittify, you can always
curlthe HTML/CSS/JS and hand-parse it. Might have suboptimal performance however.lol if it ever gets to that point i’m just gonna go straight Lynx.
The Lynx browser is surprisingly nice.
It’s actually incredible for getting real reading done without my ADHD taking over and opening up 30 tabs of “ooh whats this?”
