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Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

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Re: Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

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Post by Diti »

I hope to see the day when (or if) the LLMs get so good at spotting and fixing bugs that all that’s left for the Firefox engineers to do is to focus on adding new features.

This isn’t sarcasm. Firefox deserves to be used more. Most people I know don’t use it because “Chrome does almost everything better”, and Firefox can’t compete with the other browsers’ roadmaps.

Re: Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

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Post by lschueller »

Let's see, how this will improve the daily soc work. I still don't see, what's the big difference between Mythos and Opus, security wise. I'm confident, that this kind of vul detection is a long-term improvement. But does specifically Mythos makes such a big difference to "normal" models? I would love to see, what's the actual difference.

Re: Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

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Post by JoshTriplett »

lschueller wrote: post #4

Let's see, how this will improve the daily soc work. I still don't see, what's the big difference between Mythos and Opus, security wise. I'm confident, that this kind of vul detection is a long-term improvement. But does specifically Mythos makes such a big difference to "normal" models? I would love to see, what's the actual difference.

Among other things, Mythos seems better at "let me find, weaponize, and stack vulnerabilities until I get end-to-end from untrusted content to root", rather than just finding one thing in a specific identified area.

Re: Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

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Post by input_sh »

Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051079

It's better because it actually lists a sample of Bugzilla reports that were made public. This topic was discussed previously (36 comments two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885042), but the part about bug reports being made public is brand new.

Re: Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

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Post by greggoB »

Diti wrote: post #2

I hope to see the day when (or if) the LLMs get so good at spotting and fixing bugs that all that’s left for the Firefox engineers to do is to focus on adding new features. This isn’t sarcasm. Firefox deserves to be used more. Most people I know don’t use it because “Chrome does almost everything better”, and Firefox can’t compete with the other browsers’ roadmaps.

> Firefox deserves to be used more

Totally agree. I even go as far as choosing which website I make purchases on depending if they work on FF, or writing to support occasionally to tell them it's not supported or a feature isn't working properly and this would be appreciated.

I know it pretty much always goes nowhere, but I feel it's what I can do to keep the browser somehow on the radar.

Re: Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

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Post by nubinetwork »

Diti wrote: post #2

I hope to see the day when (or if) the LLMs get so good at spotting and fixing bugs that all that’s left for the Firefox engineers to do is to focus on adding new features. This isn’t sarcasm. Firefox deserves to be used more. Most people I know don’t use it because “Chrome does almost everything better”, and Firefox can’t compete with the other browsers’ roadmaps.

> Firefox deserves to be used more

Part of the problem is, when they stop working on fixing bugs, they start doing Mr Robot things... We just want a web browser. Nobody asked for pocket, or AI...

If they use AI to fix all the bugs, then what else is for them to do, other than maintain syntax compatibility with the various languages they build with? They're just going to go back to making the browser trash again.

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