I have been trying to put my schadenfreude on a diet, but I cannot stop browsing the 2,300 comments on Mozilla adding a generative AI chatbot to Firefox.
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I have been trying to put my schadenfreude on a diet, but I cannot stop browsing the 2,300 comments on Mozilla adding a generative AI chatbot to Firefox.
At any rate, I'm being generous and giving Mozilla one release to remove the feature and then I'll be moving on. Librewolf and Vivaldi look like my leading options at the moment.
Share your feedback on the AI services experiment in Nightly
Hi folks, In the next few days, we will start the Nightly experiment which provides easy access to AI services from the sidebar. This functionality
(connect.mozilla.org)
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@troublewithwords Fwiw, I’m using Waterfox which strips out all the bullshit, and isn’t chromium (I choose not to use chromium because I don’t want the web to be read-only-by-chromium). The downside is it uses Firefox’s LTS branch, which is like, a year behind the main.
The reasons I don’t just use safari (I’m on a mac): they can’t seem to hire engineers that can make a browser work with an OS that isn’t their latest, and 2, they broke uBlock Origin.
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@octothorpe I don't use Safari much on desktop. If they can't support world-class ad blocking I'm not going to bother.
Librefox is usually only a few days behind FF main and comes with uBlock. So far my main complaint is it's a homebrew install and needs to be manually updated, which I can probably live with/automate.
Vivaldi is its own thing, and yeah, Chromium. But they took a hard stance against adding AI, which I like.
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@octothorpe Thanks for the heads up on it though. I hadn't heard of it and I'm glad to have options!
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@troublewithwords yeah, I’ve been using them for awhile. I needed to find something modern and fast. Then I needed to find something M1 native.
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@troublewithwords I’ll have to check out librefox… not having an auto-update is a bit of a PITA, but really, I update on my time anyway.
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@octothorpe Yeah, I don't let anything install without my permission anymore, but its nice to have have the update notification.
Every weekend I do updates on my web server, so I could just add it to the maintenance list. It's just running a single script.
Just realized their releases page has an RSS feed to subscribe to.
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@troublewithwords oh that’s cool. And yeah, I love to be notified… that’s a good thing. I just actually do it at my convenience. I’d love to be at the forefront of web tech again, so it may be an option.
Is it a binary, or do I have to compile it as well? (I’m afk, and haven’t looked)
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@octothorpe It's a binary, though if you want to compile you can.
They also have a disk image, but updating that's slightly more of a pain than just updating the cask, so *shrug*.
When you're at a keyboard: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#macos-specific-questions
I also had to use the --no-quarantine flag in homebrew which felt a bit gross, but understandable.
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@troublewithwords i raw dog (sans SIP) my OSX experience, so that’s not a huge deal.
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@troublewithwords Thanks! Also, in reading up on it, it reminds me of why I don't use it. Historically, I found it to be a little too 'privacy leaning' for my browsing (in that it broke shit, or did weird shit to the UX of the browser). Cheers, tho!