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As announced today on the Mozilla blog, they've got a new CEO with Anthony Enzor-DeMeo. Here's a short but important excerpt on the future of Firefox from the post (emphasis ours):
As Mozilla moves forward, we will focus on becoming the trusted software company. This is not a slogan. It is a direction that guides how we build and how we grow. It means three things.
- First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.
- Second: our business model must align with trust. We will grow through transparent monetization that people recognize and value.
- Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
You should read the full post to form your own opinion on it, but regular readers will know my thoughts on AI quite well by now. Companies everywhere are scrambling to force AI into where it isn't needed, or wanted, and all it ends up doing is causing the complete enshittification of whatever it is.
If they really wanted to give us privacy and agency in how we use it, they would give us a very simple opt-out for all AI features. But like other companies and organisations - they won't, because they need to force people into it to make numbers go up. They say we should be able to easily turn it off, but I'll believe that when I see it as a clear option to disable it all.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: JarmerDude, ahah! How many browsers have you tested?! 😄Quoting: tmtvlThe LibreWolf devs, on the other hand, have already stated that they won't be able to keep development going if Mozilla implodes.yeah that's the most worrisome. I wonder about Zen in that case as well. Oh well, once Orion for linux releases, I think I'll be all-in on that on every machine I have (desktop / laptop / tablet / phone).
I was just reading here and there comments to decide which one I should choose and then you drop another one that I never heard off. 😆
On that note thought, I was wondering the main difference between LibreWolf and Waterfox but the tmtvl's comment cleared that out for me. I'm not sure yet if I change my browser, but if I do I don't want to do it again the next year or so...
But if anyone of you have a comparison's site of all these browsers I'm still interested indeed, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!
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Quoting: CyrilDude, ahah! How many browsers have you tested?! 😄hahah I work in video streaming tech, so I am deeply interested in browsers just in general :) Here you go I'll give you my personal feelings for them:
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But if anyone of you have a comparison's site of all these browsers I'm still interested indeed, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!
(btw all of these have no ai integration, I won't use a browser that does)
- Librewolf - firefox fork with a privacy focus as the core of it - sometimes a little too much. I was forced to undo some of its hardening to make basic sites work (maps for instance, some gaming sites, etc) which if you undo too much then ... ??? But overall it works really well, and it strips out all the mozilla fuckery from regular firefox like pocket, ai garbage, etc.
- Orion - completely custom build from the Kagi folks - based on webkit. This is so unique and I love it. Currently only avail for macos and ios, but linux build is coming soon. Privacy focused but softer I would say compared to Librewolf, which IMO is a good thing. I don't need to go undo a bunch of stuff to make basic sites work. One killer feature for me is the ability to make two completely separate icons in my macos dock for different profiles. So like I have a personal icon and a work icon, which opens two completely separate windows. Love this. I'm sure other browsers could do this, I just found it really easy with Orion. Once they release the linux build this will be the only browser I use on all devices.
- Zen Browser - I'm typing this comment from this browser right now. I feel .... meh ... about it. It's REALLY powerful in terms of features. But I think it's just a little too much in the feature set for me. Mostly I just want a browser to be private, have good extension support and then get the F out of the way. Zen does have good privacy and extensions but it also has an INSANE amount of power user features like compact mode, a ton of unique keyboard shortcuts, on and on and on. Which is cool and all but I'm not going to memorize a whole new slew of keyboard shortcuts for only my browser. And some of the features are so unique I can't really remember how to activate them when switching from my laptop to desktop for instance which is just frustrating. It's also vertical tabs ONLY, and I'm an ancient person, so I've never really gotten used to vertical tabs. I really should but ... ???
- Waterfox - have only basic testing experience with this one. I think some others might be able to comment better on it. It did work well in my testing.
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