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[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Then take out the AI, the telemetry, and the bloat like it was the mid-2000s.

Oh wait -that's what Waterfox did.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Looks like waterfox went full AI. Also a VAST majority of the firefox like clones/forks/etc still rely on the Mozilla team for interop and maintenance. Some even pull down the same libraries maintained by the team. Like Librewolf in particular pulls a LOT from firefox main code and waterfox pulls from libraries.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Full AI" a feature to summarize pages that can be toggled off easily

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

I mean the code. Like ime seeing a HUGE Agents folder right at the beginning of the project. And the git commits.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I will stick with LibreWolf, but I do love this ad.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

Strange but probably true: Somewhere in the world, there are people who feel nostalgia for the Annoying Orange.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

I had somehow blocked out the memory until now

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

Still using it. Its great. Ublock origin my love. WebtoEpub has saved a LOT of sites from destruction. Thres a metric ton of extensions I love to use.

[-] orlyowl@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

WebtoEpub has saved a LOT of sites from destruction.

Sounds interesting, but I'm not quite getting the likely use case. Can you give a little more info?

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

It creates a epub out of any site. And if theres a next button, it pulls from that as well. So a "book" is produced from many different sites.

Theres a lot of people that use forums/wordpress/comics/etc.... for their content of choice. But hey I want to read it on an ebook reader. So I use the extension boom epub.

Also its all in one file so you dont have to hunt and peck for resources. Its really useful on say royal road or sites that dont have a https://archiveofourown.org/

And it says offline in your library.

[-] orlyowl@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks I might have to check it out.

[-] kabutor@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Been using Firefox since was called Phoenix, but some months ago I moved away to Librewolf, and I'm not going back, no matter the ad campaign. I feel my privacy is at risk, and I feel like I was a product that they need to monetize. No thanks

[-] gothmog@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Man it's too bad they didn't get Rick Astley in there too. Could've licensed the song too.

[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks, I hate it. Not the browser, but the ad. I don't want stale nostalgia. I want a modern, secure, privacy-oriented ecosystem and tools which help taking the internet back from the claws of megacorporations. Tools which help building new communities and resilience to corporate enshittification. The ad just rubs me entirely the wrong way.

[-] schwim@piefed.zip -5 points 1 week ago
[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago

Makes sense.

Boomer millennials are their main customer base.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

Google fanboys out in force today! Generational divide is not real, class divide is the thing you should concern yourself with.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk -1 points 1 week ago

Weird to dismiss us both out of hand as google fanboys, I was just doing them the courtesy of getting their joke.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website -2 points 1 week ago
[-] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Sorry, link broken. Is it imgur? Not even my VPN beats their hatred of the UK.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

It's a browser.

If you genuinely think there's fanboys about that.

Well Jesus H Christ you need to get out more.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago
[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

You're acting like a fanboy getting offended when someone doesn't share your opinion.

I know

[-] yakko@feddit.uk -1 points 1 week ago

Boomer mi- actually I get it yeah, that tracks.

[-] 69420@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago

Ask yourself why would Mozilla spend money on this advertisement?

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Because they want market share back? Not exactly hard.

[-] jagermo@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nope. Chuck Testa.

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