After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product
Sigh, and here I was, thinking Microsoft trying to shove its useless (to me) AI down my throat at every opportunity was annoying… Quo vadis Mozilla, what are you guys doing… :(
With Edge and Chrome already having announced AI integration for things like composing messages, I don’t think Firefox will have much of a mainstream appeal in a few years if it lacks any AI integration at that point. As much as I despise it, things are very much moving in the direction of ChatGPT-everywhere.
Plus, AI also powers things like Mozilla’s offline translation engine, and I believe also the cookie-popup-blocker they’re working on releasing. Even without ChatGPT stuff, AI adds valuable features to the browser.
You should still be able to disable all that stuff if you don’t want it, of course, but I wouldn’t bet against AI with the ways things are developing.
Ai is coming either way. It’s not really avoidable, and if Mozilla were to divest from that area too they would set themselves up for failure. A few years down the road all browsers will have some sort of ai integration, perhaps large parts of the web too. If Mozilla doesn’t keep up it will just become entirely irrelevant and the internet will be fully controlled by google and its chromium bs.
Besides, what they did so far is really neat and how I would like to see ai integrated: offline translation features on your local device, not somewhere under control of some corporation. More of that please
Sigh, and here I was, thinking Microsoft trying to shove its useless (to me) AI down my throat at every opportunity was annoying… Quo vadis Mozilla, what are you guys doing… :(
With Edge and Chrome already having announced AI integration for things like composing messages, I don’t think Firefox will have much of a mainstream appeal in a few years if it lacks any AI integration at that point. As much as I despise it, things are very much moving in the direction of ChatGPT-everywhere.
Plus, AI also powers things like Mozilla’s offline translation engine, and I believe also the cookie-popup-blocker they’re working on releasing. Even without ChatGPT stuff, AI adds valuable features to the browser.
You should still be able to disable all that stuff if you don’t want it, of course, but I wouldn’t bet against AI with the ways things are developing.
Ai is coming either way. It’s not really avoidable, and if Mozilla were to divest from that area too they would set themselves up for failure. A few years down the road all browsers will have some sort of ai integration, perhaps large parts of the web too. If Mozilla doesn’t keep up it will just become entirely irrelevant and the internet will be fully controlled by google and its chromium bs.
Besides, what they did so far is really neat and how I would like to see ai integrated: offline translation features on your local device, not somewhere under control of some corporation. More of that please