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Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Personally, I do not mind it if it's on-device, especially small specialised models (e.g. overview generation, audio generation, etc) with no internet access.

Modern local models make it pretty easy to imagine a future where this would be useful, but they also make extremely apparent that the future has not arrived.

Maybe in five years they will be useful enough that it would have been worth including these features

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Apart from the browser.ml.* config the newest update also adds and activates the @perplexity search shortcut.

Deleted it in my config. I'm solely relying on DuckDuckGo.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Mozilla could have had the no-nonsense, high performance browser backend that everyone uses to build their own browsers (like the recent glut of AI browsers), instead of everyone using Chromium/Blink. In the past, Gecko was really the go-to choice for this. They almost had a second shot with Servo. But they kinda really dropped the ball on the technical capability of the browser while continuing to be distracted by a…

Mozilla is a C-suite vanity organization disguised as software company. I love Firefox (I'm using it write this comment) and I really appreciate the developers who continue to work and improve it -- I just wish they were given far more resources to do it.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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I'm curious to know what the AI does when it encounters sheet music. Does it do anything intelligible?

It summarizes the lyrics iirc. There are ai programs specifically for sheet music and I actually use one that I'm happy with, play score 2.

That would be funny. I'd venture most songs fall into "singer is really pissed after a break up" or "singer is really wanting to get some"

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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The article is actually good. The title is a little click-baity even if that is actually what it covers. It is mostly about tweaking the AI options which is actually helpful as I don't mind some of the new features.

> The title is a little click-baity even if that is actually what it covers.

Your comment is a bit self-contradictory in that it doesn't say what it says.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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I think they make a pretty good browser. It is performant, supports blocking ads easily, standard compatible, customizable and recently even added support for vertical tabs. What are you missing?

Personally (I’m not the person you asked) I’m missing AppleScript support. Firefox is the only major browser without it, and the bug report for it is old enough to drink in every country. That lack of capability prevents it from being my daily driver, even if the rest were good enough (I’m not saying it isn’t, I’m saying I have no reason to find out). I am certain I have inadvertently pushed many people away from Fir…

MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD and everything else squeeze into just 15% of Firefox's user base.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware

They're really not going to be able to dedicate resources to something as bijou as AppleScript.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Mozilla could have had the no-nonsense, high performance browser backend that everyone uses to build their own browsers (like the recent glut of AI browsers), instead of everyone using Chromium/Blink. In the past, Gecko was really the go-to choice for this. They almost had a second shot with Servo. But they kinda really dropped the ball on the technical capability of the browser while continuing to be distracted by a…

Time to switch to Waterfox, it's basically Firefox with the privacy features that Firefox should have by default: https://www.waterfox.net/

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Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Mozilla could have had the no-nonsense, high performance browser backend that everyone uses to build their own browsers (like the recent glut of AI browsers), instead of everyone using Chromium/Blink. In the past, Gecko was really the go-to choice for this. They almost had a second shot with Servo. But they kinda really dropped the ball on the technical capability of the browser while continuing to be distracted by a…

> Mozilla could have had the no-nonsense, high performance browser backend that everyone uses to build their own browsers I agree with the sentiment, but you underestimate the level of engineering, coordination, design work, testing it is to do this. It is admirable that they even have a half-decent browser, but to compete at the top you need soooo much money and motivation.

> It is admirable that they even have a half-decent browser, but to compete at the top you need soooo much money and motivation.

I’m guessing Ladybird will prove you wrong in due time

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