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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@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!