Also all the consumer friendly shop page stuff like labeling anti features
Feyd
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I don't use EGS because it they actually locked in significant market share they would enshittify so fast your head would spin.
People really think the south/rural areas have people being giant racist homophobes to strangers... No they save that for people they know or think will agree with them
Are they? What have they actually done to make it a bad choice? From my memory the last year or so they've:
- Added some AI stuff that I don't use but isn't in my way
- Added tab groups and sidebar tabs which I use constantly
- Clarified some legalese that didn't change anything but caused everyone to say the sky is falling for no reason
- Refused to deprecate manifest v2
Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying Mozilla is perfect and does everything I want. I wish they weren't funded by google and I wish they didn't waste so much money on executives, but not only do you need them to stand up to google by continuing to develop firefox (all the downstream gecko browsers would collapse), you need them to continue to participate in web standards committees so google doesn't get to run away and do whatever the fuck it wants (no other non-big-tech entity has a seat at the table or would get one)
I swear there is astroturfing for anti-mozilla sentiment to undermine their importance in the ecosystem
Edit: I just remembered they are using LLM to replace human written documentation. That is the worst thing they've done by far :/
I'm usually a firefox defender, because usually people are blowing everything they do out of proportion, and straight up making up negatives.
That said, I don't know what a "modern AI browser" is but I know it's something I don't want. Hopefully "AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off." Is a serious statement.
But also, the AI features they've added so far have been out of my way and haven't bothered me, and if what you're calling for is to use chromium based browsers (gecko down stream is fine) then you are making the wrong decision for the future of the internet. Firefox, chrome, edge, and safari are the only browsers which have a snowballs chance of being accepted in corporate environments, and supporting google over Mozilla is a losing proposition.
I find it interesting that all these low participation/new accounts have come out of the woodwork to pump up AI in the last 2 weeks. I'm so sick of having this slop clogging up my feed. You're literally saying that your vibes are more important than actual data, just like all the others. I'm sorry, but its not.
My experience btw, is that llms produce hot garbage that takes longer to fix than if I wrote it myself, and all the people that say "but it writes my unit tests for me!" are submitting garbage unit tests, that often don't even exercise the code, and are needlessly difficult to maintain. I happen to think tests are just as important as production code so it upsets me.
The biggest thing that the meteoric rise of developers using LLMs has done for me is confirm just how many people in this field are fucking terrible at their jobs.
It does increase productivity, given enough training, learning its advantages and limitations.
People keep saying this based on gut feeling, but the only study I've seen showed that even experienced devs that thought they were faster were actually slower.
Gundam wing: endless waltz
Linux doesn't use semver.
Funny how they have huge successful lobbies for everything but this eh
I dunno that seems very compatible with the following that was said in the CEO statement.
Also here is a link to the posts https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
Also, the dev says the following and I think they have a point.