• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    5 months ago

    “At Mozilla, we work hard to make Firefox the best browser for you. That’s why we’re always focused on building a browser…”

    You don’t need to lie to us. We are just happy you are finally working on browser features.

    I’m looking forward to reducing ui clutter and profile improvements.

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    5 months ago

    Hopefully I don’t get many downvotes for this, but it isns’t necessary to deny anything related to AI and bombard Mozilla for this. Sure, Copilot is a disaster, because it is a service and will call home to M$ and collect your data. But all of what Mozilla offers us is on-device AI, which is exceptional. I’ve been waiting so long for on-device AI-based webpage translation, so people don’t need to rely on external services like Google or Bing to translate any more.

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      Same, their local translation tech is absolutely great! If they keep working “AI” features that are pretty much quality of life ML stuff I’m all in for it.

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    5 months ago

    Pretty please, fuck off with the AI. It’s really not something I need from a browser, don’t inflate your download size for a screen reader, just MAKE IT OPTIONAL in every way.

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      5 months ago

      I totally agree regarding making it optional, but I have to say the idea of auto generating alt texts sounds like a really useful application of AI - no one really likes to do that manually yet a significant number of beautiful people rely on it.

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        I do agree with your point about auto-generated captions being better than no captions. But isn’t it bad to insert them automatically on creation? If we use these models to caption images shouldn’t it be done by the screen reader instead? That way people can benefit from future advancements of the tech and customize the captioning system for themselves. With the current system there is no way to tell if you got a crappy AI caption that you may want to replace with a better auto-generated caption or a human written caption.

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      You sound like you have no disabilities that make it hard for you to use the Internet. Good for you.

      If AI can add usability features that help people use the Internet easier then that’s a good thing. You don’t need to use it. Why complain about software being capable of helping others?

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    kinda excited to see what their native vertical tabs will look like. i’ve been using sidebery for the past ~3 years and i’m extremely satisfied with it, i somehow doubt their native version will look as good

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      Same but for tab groups. I can’t believe it took this long and every extension-based alternative is busted in some fundamental way.

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    More streamlined menus that reduce visual clutter and prioritize top user actions so you can get to the important things quicker.

    So make things even harder to find? A classic menu bar is not clutter!

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    We are approaching the use of AI in Firefox — which many, many of you have been asking about

    Which one of you was it, who asked for AI in Firefox???

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      AI actually can be very good at translating things locally while keeping tone and intent, and thats what mozilla mentions here. I’m fully down with AI powered local translation tools native to firefox, it’ll put it way above the competition

      Some LLMs are low enough in resource usage to do this on weak and older PCs

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    5 months ago

    Reading pages out loud has been an unexpected hit for me on the latest iOS. I’d love this in Firefox too.

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      Good luck convincing people to switch to it based only on “it loads pages faster than Chrome” though. It’s a good goal to have, but getting tunnel-visioned on it when their current speed in real world use is pretty comparable is definitely not a good long-term plan.

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        Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they’re going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn’t.

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    5 months ago

    There’s a lot of doom and gloom online about this, but to me these seem like welcome changes 🤷

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    The way that profiles works today is the reason I don’t use it. Chrome just handles it all so gracefully between profiles and opening links from other applications.