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I don't really mind AI features where it makes sense. That being said, as someone else commented, this should have been a plugin.
I'll add on top of that: this should have been a plugin wholly developed by Mistral. Mozilla should stop spending time and money on side features and focus on the browser and its engine. It still is way slower than any chromium based browser, lacks features that have been standard on chromium for years (eg. HDR video playback) and it's way less efficient on battery than the competition.
Complaining about Firefox doing this and groveling on "I'm good, I'm on " is spitting upwards: even the most modified forks like Zen still rely on Mozilla's aging engine.
IMO the browser wars have been lost, and Mozilla isn't a competent web browser anymore. 30% of sites I visit, straight up don't function at all on Firefox. They don't even satisfy their original mission statement of privacy focus.
I switched to Vivaldi and didn't look back. I don't want some LLM "assistant" scanning every webpage I visit.
I’m sorry, I call bullshit.
I’ve been using Firefox for many many years, and the only sites that haven’t worked were M$ sites explicitly coded to break on Firefox, or were using a technology that Firefox simply doesn’t implement like web serial api, which is admittedly more than one, but it’s an extreme minority.
Yeah I wondering if I was just lucky because I never have problems on Firefox or librewolf (which is Firefox).
Usually when I'm asked for computer help by friends or family, I can often save us both a lot of time by just asking, "you're using chrome again aren't you?" Or edge?
But sometimes in a great while Firefox is the "culprit" because it doesn't let abusive sites spy on them and collect so much telemetry.
There are plenty of over-designed, heavy "Web apps" which don't work correctly in Firefox. My college's Web portal is one.
If you create a support ticket, they tell you to use a supported browser
You're college Web admin sucks. I would use a jailed chromium browser in that case or have a separate cheap computer for browsing shitty websites that I "have to" use.
Yep, it does. All the websites that don't work in Firefox also tend to suck