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> Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. Or at least LibreWolf will turn it off / remove it. I’d rather they add optional small subscription fee to support themselves if they have to than add AI or some other questionable functionalities.
I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They seem to be inclined towards the idea of running language models on your own computer, given Mozilla released a cross-platform runtime for llama that can make use of either the CPU or GPU. So I won't be surprised if it's swappable.
Predicting: swappable on "nightly" versions only and release versions are 100% "I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that"
> Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. Or at least LibreWolf will turn it off / remove it. I’d rather they add optional small subscription fee to support themselves if they have to than add AI or some other questionable functionalities.
There's already AI in there, see the current Translation feature.
If I want something translated, I'll ask for it. Feel free to add a menu item or a button somewhere to do this, but randomly popping up door hangers really grinds my gears.
This always bugged me. Are they expecting Firefox to die? If that happened, there would be little reason for Mozilla to exist.
The project lives and dies with the browser. Having a "plan B" is complete nonsense and an unnecessary distraction.
I'm glad they're shifting focus back on the browser.
The main difference between the past hype-grabs and generative AI is that genAI is incredibly expensive. So long as Mozilla follows this pattern of chasing the latest hypewagon instead of working on its core product, they will continue to lose relevance. It's too bad.
> Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” I hope they will give us ability to turn it off. Or at least LibreWolf will turn it off / remove it. I’d rather they add optional small subscription fee to support themselves if they have to than add AI or some other questionable functionalities.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-1973/Provide-the-po...
Hopefully Mozilla will do the same, ship the AI functionality as a plugin and allow people to explicitly opt in if they want to use it. Its OK if they show it during on-boarding, as long as there is an option.
Is there any sort of corporate structure around one of the forks? There's no doubt in my mind that if it were organized somehow the community would be able to fund a few developers to work on Firefox alongside Mozilla. I don't want an aggressive split, but I'd like to be able to support the project. I've donated to Mozilla in the past but it apparently was not going to Firefox directly.
All the donations go to MoFo, where they barely covered Mitchell’s salary and what was left went to her pet political projects. People are pretty unaware/misled about how Mozilla is structured/funded.
The only way you can contribute to FF directly is to keep and use Google as the default search engine.
But they were at least an attempt to create alternate revenue streams and seemed like useful products that were complementary to Firefox. I am very skeptical that Mozilla will be able to monetize any AI integration they include, assuming they even build anything worth using given how far removed AI is from their existing competencies.