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Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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I've been on Firefox for decades and I'm 100% ready to jump ship. Tried Zen today and it didn't feel right—felt too much like it wanted to be Arc but ended up a bit frankenstein-y in the process. Open to suggestions that aren't Arc or Brave, if anyone has them!

Check out Helium. I switched from Brave to try it out and works pretty great. Just no Widevine support (though possible on Linux).

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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post #40
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At this point, is there any full-featured browser that is neither Blink-based nor burdened by a metric tonne of junk? With the way Firefox is going, Safari might well be the sole survivor, which is not a state of affairs I'm particularly happy with.

There is the Ladybird browser project: https://ladybird.org/ I guess they will get a lot of interest after this new round of Mozilla bullshit.

Yeah Ladybird is interesting, and might become the answer to my question at some point in the future. Unfortunately, it's not a good-enough answer today.

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

#46

I've been on Firefox for decades and I'm 100% ready to jump ship. Tried Zen today and it didn't feel right—felt too much like it wanted to be Arc but ended up a bit frankenstein-y in the process. Open to suggestions that aren't Arc or Brave, if anyone has them!

I jumped to Vivaldi. I was drawn to it by the amount of personalization it offers and after spending a bit of time setting it up to my liking it is now my daily browser. I don't use the integrated calendar or mail client, just the browser and you don't notice these features are even there since they don't spam you. It is chromium based however.

And propietary freeware.

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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I use Firefox personally, where do people who care about privacy go? For those of you who’ve already given up on Firefox (I can understand why..), where did you go?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Librewolf. It had sensible defaults and just works. I barely care about the privacy aspects. I just don't want to touch the settings

Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can only hope the market lets their preferences known. Also, that the executives don’t assume it’s a victory because people begrudgingly use the stuff, because there are no other options.

How? Everyone is doing this crap. There is no alternative.

Isn't Brave the go-to for a good techie/privacy browser?
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