Firefox starts adding AI, Wayland gets window & session restore: Linux & Open Source News (tilvids.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 12 points 2 years ago

No no no, that's no way to write a headline. "Here's how you disable Firefox' AI," now that's a headline!

[-] tomenzgg@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

To be fair, it comes disabled; you have to explicitly go enable it, if you want to use it.

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 6 points 2 years ago

That's good. I still object to it being there in the first place, but opt-in is definitely preferable.

[-] Linearity@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago

The AI is local and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t give information but only summarises webpages

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 9 points 2 years ago

At this point I'm just posting this over and over again:

![Two panel comic by Tom Fishburne. In the left hand panel a man sitting at a desk gestures at his computer screen saying "AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote".

In the right hand panel, a woman at a desk gestures at her computer screen, saying "AI makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read".](https://lemmy.nz/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.kbin.earth%2F0e%2Fcd%2F0ecd0684ffcca4418a8c72039a75b0f4b67004d4c71ae134821e2d766f99a779.jpg)

[-] LoreSoong@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Waterfox is a solid alternative, fennec for android.

[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

LibreWolf on PC and IronFox on Android for our more paranoid friends.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

fennec for android.

I use that on Ubuntu Touch running Waydroid 😉

[-] stewie410@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Isn't fennec maintained by Mozilla, though?

[-] LoreSoong@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago

Quickly googled it and fennec is no longer maintained by mozilla, the new fork is called fennec f-droid which is what most users are using now so you were technically correct (the best kind of correct)

fennec fdroid is android firefox stripped of proprietary and data collection and i had not heard of it prior to being on f-droid so i was unaware that I even had to specify between the two versions i assumed mozilla had nothing to do with it