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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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CEO's job has become easy. Just slap AI in the product and profit millions in bonus.

For a few quarters until it kills the product. A golden parashute I guess ?

> For a few quarters until it kills the product.

Or the company gets acquired.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

...which is arguably the problem. Firefox. Thunderbird. That should be it. According to their own site, beyond that they have the browser app for mobile devices. A VPN service, an email-forwarding service, and MDN. Hardly 'many products'.

You've clearly never built a product. One product alone requires a CEO. More than one, much more so. And anyway you're factually wrong. They produce much more than what you listed, many of their undertakings are contributions to open-source, the development of web standards, underlying technologies that browsers (not just Firefox) use to render the web, etc. You're being childish and somewhat absurdly so. Mozilla and…

I was mostly just typing out what they had listed under 'products' on their pages. I'm aware of what Mozilla do, know folks there and that have been there. They've been roundly criticised for adding 'products' of questionable value to their core userbase, rightly so in my opinion.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've clearly never built a product. One product alone requires a CEO. More than one, much more so. And anyway you're factually wrong. They produce much more than what you listed, many of their undertakings are contributions to open-source, the development of web standards, underlying technologies that browsers (not just Firefox) use to render the web, etc. You're being childish and somewhat absurdly so. Mozilla and…

I was mostly just typing out what they had listed under 'products' on their pages. I'm aware of what Mozilla do, know folks there and that have been there. They've been roundly criticised for adding 'products' of questionable value to their core userbase, rightly so in my opinion.

Yes, many of the projects have been failures -- just like at countless other companies -- but that doesn't change the fact that an organization needs a leader. Your original comment is still nonsensical.

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

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Now this makes me genuinely curious: is there a browser which respects privacy, that is usable?

firefox has several privacy focused forks. waterfox, librewolf and zen are options.

Which one of these is most trustworthy in terms of

1. doesn't (and won't) munge personal data

2. will be available in 2035

?

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

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firefox has several privacy focused forks. waterfox, librewolf and zen are options.

Which one of these is most trustworthy in terms of 1. doesn't (and won't) munge personal data 2. will be available in 2035 ?

Probably librewolf. I use zen as it has a nice ui, vertical tabs and isn’t overly hardened.
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