Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)
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#12There’s no money to be made in writing privacy respecting web browsers lol. Give Mozilla a break.
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#13HN is for sharing memes now?
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#142%. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
We've got nowhere to go but up -- 2026 is sure to be the year of Firefox on the desktop
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#15There are a lot of reasons to not like Mozilla, but it's crazy to be against them for AI. A browser is literally a user agent . What well-funded org should be entrusted with making an open source agent for the user instead?
"A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen."
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#16HN is for sharing memes now?
Pleading in essays hasn't gotten the point across.
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#17There are a lot of reasons to not like Mozilla, but it's crazy to be against them for AI. A browser is literally a user agent . What well-funded org should be entrusted with making an open source agent for the user instead?
The AI hate is unreasonably strong right now. People are acting like adding one feature they don't like or need to a browser is a borderline critical offense because it is an AI feature. I find it shocking how quickly the public in the US/EU developed this sort of hate towards one of the most interesting technology of the last decades.
Re: Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)
#18There are a lot of reasons to not like Mozilla, but it's crazy to be against them for AI. A browser is literally a user agent . What well-funded org should be entrusted with making an open source agent for the user instead?
A browser is there for retrieving documents on behalf of the user, not to add its own spin to it. It's already bad with everyone and their dog wanted to abuse the user computation power with "apps" where it should be simple forms and listing.
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#19There are a lot of reasons to not like Mozilla, but it's crazy to be against them for AI. A browser is literally a user agent . What well-funded org should be entrusted with making an open source agent for the user instead?
The problem is that the users seem not to ask for it. To the contrary, they seek ways to opt out.
I don't want the AI to be front and center in my browser. I do want the AI, if present, be local, and be distributed among tools: a better reading mode, fuzzy search on the page that searches by meaning, recognizing text on images (and also make it searchable and selectable), creature comforts like that.
If I need to chat with an LLM, I want it to not be bound to my browser.
And yes, I want to never need to start Chromium because a rare specific site refuses to work correctly in Firefox. If AI can help with that, splendid! But I suspect something else may be needed more.
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#20HN is for sharing memes now?
It's not exactly a template-meme, or whatever low-effort memes are called now (the ragefaces, the reaction gifs, the deep-fried slop).
I think something like xkcd comics or something similar has always been received well by the community. Given that it's a high-effort piece of content as a digital painting, I think it should be ok - or at least not treated like it's in the same bucket as memes.