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Re: Orbit by Mozilla

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Post by Y_Y »

kome wrote: post #192
mentalgear wrote: post #181

I'm reading a lot of criticism here, some I understand, but honestly, this sounds pretty good for a free LLM service: "Orbit doesn't require account creation or save your session data." Maybe we shouldn't be too critical of Mozilla for providing a privacy-first LLM service - for free. The other big privacy-first LLM provider is Apple, which requires users to have their devices/subscriptions to use, and definitely use…

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I didn't have the impression that HN was fine with all those things. Supposing it was, wouldn't it be ok to continue criticizing Mozilla, while also criticizing the bad behaviour of the others?

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Post by cafeinux »

IshKebab wrote: post #205
silisili wrote: post #168

Mozilla will spend any amount it takes to do anything but build a better browser.

Their browser is fine. But so is Chrome, and Chrome wins by default because it's installed by default on Android and Android really pushes you to it. Once you're using Chrome on Android and have all your passwords saved there, Firefox is a difficult sell. I can't think of a single Firefox feature that's better than "I don't have to faff around with passwords". Maybe if they allowed adblock on mobile, but last I check…

uBlocK Origin is natively supported on FF mobile, and to me this is the only feature without which I couldn't live.

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Post by gorbachev »

beretguy wrote: post #2

I'd rather have tab groups.

What's wrong with the multiple Firefox addons that provide this functionality already? I'm not trying to be snarky...I'm genuinely curious.

I've been using Simple Tab Groups [1] for many, many years.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

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Post by butz »

Just keep it as optional extension and that will be perfectly fine. They should make it compatible with other browsers too. Considering llamafile project, maybe there will be an option for offline assistant, where user will be able to select their preferred model?

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Post by Vinnl »

bayindirh wrote: post #183
Vinnl wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still upcoming (already in Nightly), but I'm very excited about vertical tabs, tab grouping, and a better profile UI. And proper uBlock Origin support is table stakes for me.

Considering the Profile UI is basically the same since Netscape days, a revamp of this is a bit overdue. Just a bit though. :)

Absolutely. It's looking really good in Nightly though.

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

400thecat wrote: post #164
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, the product differentiation of Firefox is a bunch of small convenience features which Chrome in its monolithism refuses to provide, such as: Allowing Backspace to go back a page. The built-in screenshot tool. Being able to turn off smooth scrolling. Support for a menubar, so that I can navigate the features I want quickly. Being able to choose page encodings (I use a non-Latin charset language). A usable/usef…

> A usable/useful bookmark manager with things like sorting, tags/labels, timestamps, etc. which bookmark manager can do that ?

Firefox’s built in bookmark manager can do that, Chrome’s is very basic.

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

rendaw wrote: post #138
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, the product differentiation of Firefox is a bunch of small convenience features which Chrome in its monolithism refuses to provide, such as: Allowing Backspace to go back a page. The built-in screenshot tool. Being able to turn off smooth scrolling. Support for a menubar, so that I can navigate the features I want quickly. Being able to choose page encodings (I use a non-Latin charset language). A usable/usef…

Chromium has "restore previous session" - I use it every time I start my browser (I've had a session going for months if not years).

It does not have a command for it. I don’t want it to happen every time I reopen Chrome, but only when I call the command.

Re: Orbit by Mozilla

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Post by bowsamic »

bayindirh wrote: post #209
bowsamic wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a matter of principle, I'd never use a browser which is funded by an advertisement company which lives off my data to show me ads and rob me of my privacy and cognitive capacity. You can’t use Firefox either then

I can disable all its telemetry, and change my search engine. It becomes a box which receives but never emits. Plus, I don't use its Mozilla build, but its Debian build.

Sure but you specifically said “funded by” and Gecko dev is funded almost entirely by Google
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