personally I bounce between FF and Brave. Neither are ideal, FF for the reasons cited here and Brave because it stinks of crypto bro. I personally want FF to survive, it's the only non-chromium browser with any significant market share. I'm looking forward to Ladybird though.
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Took me too long to realize the paws applying the makeup don’t belong to the fox
such is life. no one stays good forever. Enshittification is inevitable... alas...
Unpopular opinion: the Firefox hate is completely out of proportion.
Whether we like it or not, a lot of users are interacting with the internet through AI agents. Every browser larger than Firefox already has AI agents locked into the browser. Firefox is providing an option for people who would like to use it, and that's it. They're providing it in a better and safer context, in which users can define the scope of access that the AI has, which AI agent they want to use, or even use a local AI model.
A lot of people here will start simping for the Google-backed Chromium browsers, or for crypto mining browsers, or for browsers that are essentially reskinned Firefox.
I've used the beta version that's out now. There's a little pop-up when it updates that says, hey, would you like to set up your choice of AI agent? If you don't want one, you just click no thanks and skip it and everything else still works the same.
Maybe I'm the one with the clown makeup in the last panel, but I just don't see what the big deal is for everybody.
Yes, yes you are the last panel
The backlash is over the CEO's comments of "evolving into an AI browser" instead of the current implementation
Isn't this already covered with extensions, though?
No no, you are not the clown and absolutely right. This fad will end soon as all the others.
Just like that pesky "internet" thing people are always talking about.
So if Mozilla is turning into mozzarella, what's the best next alternative?
I like Librewolf on my PC. It shuts down a bunch of stuff right off he bat.
I'm looking for some recommendations for android devices.
Go with ironfox on android. Can't recommend fennec they skip updates
Can second LibreWolf, though you have to be aware that it tweaks quite a few things in the name of privacy that you may want to turn back on.
For example, I was unable to use my FoundryVTT webapp until I re-enabled WebGL in the settings. Which reminds me, I need to see if that feature can be whitelisted per-domain or if it's all-or-nothing...
So, for those, I keep another, less private browser around. Like chromium or Water Fox.
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I unironically use https://servo.org/ from time to time for light surfing like researching something on wikipedia.
It breaks on most modern websites especially SPAs of course its like super alpha but its heading in the right direction its great to have a alternative showing up in times like this.
Still have Firefox with all AI disabled for heavy usage and stuff like banking.
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There are a few browsers/browser engines in the works, but right now you could try a Firefox fork
... Servo appears to be missing a huge opportunity by not having an ansgty gumball machine mascot.
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Can someone cue (or is it queue? que?) me in on what all the fuzz is this time around? I feel like I hear a pitchfork mob at least once a year without actually noticing anything different.
Just for the record: I'm not claiming that there's much ado about nothing, merely that I am severely out of the loop as usual.
Firefox is the biggest non-chromium browser competitor, and was an advocate of privacy and not selling user data
But they recently did a 180, started selling user data, and are now shoving FF full of AI bloatware nobody wants
So the userbase is feeling very betrayed
Wait, selling user data? What did I miss?
Their argument is “we’re not selling your data, we’re selling our data about you.”
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/
TL;DR Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”), and we don’t buy data about you. We changed our language because some jurisdictions define “sell” more broadly than most people would usually understand that word. Firefox has built-in privacy and security features, plus options that let you fine-tune your data settings.
Removing "no we will never sell your data" from your Q/A page is not a good look
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The new CEO has said he wants to turn Firefox into a "modern day AI browser"
He also said he doesn’t want to but they could make $150m/year by blocking ad blockers.
I get that he said he doesn’t want to, but that really should have been a non starter train of thought.
it's "clue" me in on. But "cue" does make sense, from an "eggcorn" perspective. It's not the phrase, but it makes sense.
It's also "fuss" not "fuzz" but like no biggie, most people can pick up meanings from context clues.
"Clue me in" is the idiom. ~~Que~~ Cue is closer than queue, if you were an actor and needed a hint on where to go next.
A cue is a marker point, usually for media production. It can be used in several contexts.
Queue would be a line, more or less.
I'm being reductive, of course. Just trying to help people who are too lazy to Google or look at a dictionary.
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These would be great with added text
My candidates are:
- We can survive without Google’s money
- People want Pocket by default. So what if shares your data and fills your homepage with ads.
- We want expand Firefox into a suite and make it AI first
- We’re giving up $150m/year by not blocking ad blockers
From what I've been noticing, they're going downhill since they started being supported by their competitor and monopoly. Could they be suffering from sabotage, I wonder...
Hasn't google pretty much always supported Mozilla/firefox? I was pretty sure this was the case since basically forever.
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What alternatives exist that aren't so locked down 90% of sites don't load?
Is it only ff forks and chromium forks? All dependant on two terrible companies?
LibreWolf or WaterFox
If you stay with Firefox forks use LibreWolf, if you stay with Chrome forks go Vivaldi do not use Brave, Sucks that Safari folded so many years ago for at least Windows it was a way to use Konqueror.
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Wasn't servo the engine that was originally started by Mozilla to replace gecko but then dropped?
Yes. It was revived recently (two years ago??) by Linux foundation Europe because there is some renewed interest in!it.
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Trading 1 clueless buzzword businessman for another.
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