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    Firefox is the way. If you haven’t tried Firefox since 2008, you should. It is as fast as Chrome. It has improved significantly since 2008.

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          Instead of being a dick about it, why don’t you show what they’re doing and why you don’t like it, so we can all be educated and/or have a conversation about it, so everyone can decide for themselves if it’s a problem for them?

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          Probably because they knew it’d devolve into stupid comments like yours. Honestly what were you trying to achieve by just baselessly calling someone a Mozilla shill?

          But for anybody curious, the “AI” that Mozilla will be implementing is entirely optional, trained on open source datasets that have been ethically sourced, works entirely offline, is run locally, and doesn’t send your personal info to Mozilla.

          It will be used for things like better offline translation, finding alternate sources for articles if you want to find them, spotting fake reviews, as well as accessibility features like a better screen reader and image descriptions for images without a manually added description tag.

          Personally my issues with AI are pretty much entirely related to stealing training data, and using AI as an excuse to push more ads and scrape more userdata. That’s not the case here, and this should not be treated like Google/MS’s AI features.

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              (Not the person you responded to)

              I’m curious, what exactly are your issues with the AI implementations the poster above you mentioned?

              Because to me, they seem like very specific usecases where they actually offer benefits. It doesn’t seem like someone just went “everyone is doing ai… Let’s slap ai on Firefox so we stay one of the cool kids!”.

              Example: I live in a country where I don’t speak the language. Instead of using a plugin for Firefox which translates e.g. government sites by sending them to Google translate, FF has been handling this locally for a couple of months now. Seems like a win to me.

              Similarly, I imagine that vision impaired folks will receive a real benefit by not having to deal with the way-too-large number of websites not providing alt tags for images.

              If (yes, I know, big IF) the models FF ships are indeed ethically trained and run fully locally… Then I kinda don’t get the issue

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        Only if you could choose the default container for the new tabs instead having to long press the new tab button and selecting it manually.

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        Came here to say this. I wish other browsers would catch up to Firefox and add this feature for when I have to use them (esp. Chrome/Edge).

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      Not that benchmarks matter a whole lot these days, but I think for some benchmarks it was faster than Chrome. It’s close enough to not even be a factor, in any case.

      Also, it has a feature that Chrome seemingly has no analogue for, and that is: containers.

      I never entirely stopped using Firefox. I still use Chrome alongside Firefox for certain things at work.

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      It had its lows and highs in my opinion. But yeah Firefox on desktop is a great experience right now. Sadly I can’t say that about mobile version, it’s frustrating to say the least.

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        Brave is Chromium based. UBlock will be affected by the changes.

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      Linux phones need to get good asap cause im ready to ditch android at a seconds notice.

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        Hate that the overwhelming majority of phones don’t have the ability to just install an alternative OS. I know it’s because of hardware, but holy hell, the amount of hardware on PCs Linux supports is massive, and only a fraction of it is hardware that has released any real specifications to create a Free version of its driver. I don’t think we’ve really concentrated on creating such things for phones in the same way or we’d be able to throw a phone UI version of Linux on nearly any phone out there. As it is, each alternative is limited to half a dozen or a little more of generally the same phones, and they’re generally expensive as hell.

        Where’s my btw I use Arch phone? Because I want my btw I use Arch phone.

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        Linux phones might already be good, that’s not the issue.

        The issue is apps like my bank app, I need to be able to access and manage my bank accounts from my phone. How is that going to work on a non android phone?

        If there is a solution for things like that, I’ll drop Google in a heartbeat

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          Ive had a pixel before with grapheneos but that comes with its own problems, it still uses google services just in a sandbox.

          Its cool but I just ended up switching back to normal android because Id rather deal with google entirely or not at all. Not some half and half bs which is unfortunately what android is. Even at the most basic form AOSP is basically unusable without some random google service running in the background.

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    I switched to Firefox 6 months ago as a test experiment. I literally have NO REASON to ever open chrome again. Imported my passwords and the transition was smooth as butter. And I am a stubborn turd that hates change. Firefox plus Ublock origin and superagent fixed everything wrong with the internet for me.

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      What gets me about this change is that it hurts enterprise more than anybody. I don’t use chrome anymore for anything in my personal life, and haven’t in several years now. However, it’s the only browser I can use for work. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        I’m similarly wondering about these changes getting ported to MS Edge. I have Ublock Origin on Edge on my work computer now, but if they move Edge to Manifest v3 then I guess Ublock won’t work, then my work browser will be less secure.

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    As soon as I heard of the mere plan to do this, I ditched Chromium altogether and went back to Firefox. Ultimately, I landed on the fork Floorp.

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      Can you elaborate on why floorp is better than Firefox? Is it just more customization?

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    Google is collapsing because we are not the customer they serve (anymore). We are the product.

    They have spoiled all the good will their brand has which means they are vulnerable to competition.

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    Does anyone know how this could affect Brave? I’ve suggested it for non-tech Google Chrome refugees who find Firefox difficult to use.

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      who find Firefox difficult to use

      WTF? HOW? How is it difficult to use? It works like any other web browser?!

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        Different shortcuts, ways of customizing the browser, etc. the browser may feel like second nature to you currently, but for others, there’s friction in changing the software you’ve use for over a decade, and I say this as a current Floorp user

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          I guess a more honest way to phrase it is “people who are unwilling to learn a new browser”, since there’s nothing specifically difficult about Firefox.

          Let the blame rest with the user that won’t learn, and not with the software they refuse to learn.

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            I use Floorp and JUMPED to it from Firefox because I had a mediocre Firefox experience. I fancy myself a power user and was not a fan. The idea that the majority who try Firefox and have issues are in the wrong and the minority who enjoy the experience are right seems backwards…

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          I still don’t see how that makes Firefox difficult.

          The transition might be difficult, but I rarely see casual people use the options you describe.

          It’s as easy as opening the shortcut and start browsing, I see no difference with Chrome there

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            I’ll be honest; I bounce between several browsers - Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, and even sometimes Edge, and sometimes it takes a second for me to even remember which one I’m looking at. Firefox is great for very specific work flows I have, but for a lot of other things, most other browsers will do.

            Maybe it’s because I tend to bounce around that I find it very interesting to hear that FF is difficult to use.

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          What shortcuts are different? Basically most of web browser shortcuts are universal, e.g. Ctrl/Cmd + L to focus on the URL bar, F5 or Ctrl + R to reload, Alt + Left/Right arrow to go back/forward, Ctrl + D to bookmark, Ctrl + T to open a new tab, Ctrl + W to close a tab, etc. I’ve been using these for decades across different browsers, god damn they even work in Apple’s Safari

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      There is absolutely nothing difficult to use in Firefox. If anything it’s easier, as most of the settings aren’t arbitrarily hidden to prevent you from changing them. There are also fewer bullshit settings because they aren’t harvesting your data.

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      MV3 won’t affect inbuilt ad-blockers such as Brave’s one (or Vivaldi’s, I guess), as those are not extensions. MV3 is exclusively about extensions.

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      I’m not a user of brave, but I did a quick Google and it looks like they’re ad blocking will be unaffected. As for other extensions, I think that at least some will be supported for a year, while others may break immediately but I didn’t take too deep TBH