I think he did, but I’m not sure if he called that out explicitly. Basically the recommendation is: yeah, try it, but also, all the power it gives you can make you go off the deep end. Don’t fall for the trap of trying to build your own editing software.

WebKit is Safari, Firefox is Gecko. But Gecko is mainly supported by Mozilla, so if Mozilla can’t support it financially, it remains to be seen whether someone else can or will (and if so, how).

NixOS I wouldn’t recommend to a beginner (maybe Nixbook, I’m not familiar), but Fedora Silverblue: holy hell maintenance is so low-effort. Major version upgrades are literally the same level of effort as regular updates, and take about as long. And they’re waaaaay less likely to break than conventional major upgrades. I’d recommend that to beginners and advanced users alike.

Renames might be the quickest way to accrue technical debt :P

My fix for those sites is to never visit them again. Horrible.

We got vertical tabs, that’s a good first step. I imagine full-on tree-style tabs is more work, though in combination with (non-AI) tab groups it has already replaced my use of Sidebery. A tree of tabs would be nice though.

Hmm could be different commenting styles; I, and I think the thread started as well, regularly broaden a topic in response to an article. So my interpretation when they spoke about people having “AI as a trigger word” was that they were referring to people with concerns about more than just agentic AI. But if you want to limit it to that, feel free to ignore my original reference to search engines.

It was my impression that the thread started wasn’t just talking about agentic AI. And I think a lot of the “anti AI folks” here are also angry about recent non-agentic AI additions that Mozilla added, such as e.g. tab recommendations for tab groups.

It’s interesting that so many of those privacy-focused individuals use Windows and don’t have a single extension installed though.

The algorithms to determine which pages are most relevant to your query are traditionally seen as AI too. They’re just not labelled as such (which was the point), and predate the current AI hype.

I hadn’t even thought about the “AI modes” that search engines are incorporating nowadays though, so I get the confusion.

See my reply to the sibling comment - I wasn’t referring to the “AI summary”.

Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but how can you be aware of this fact

I don’t know whether the negative reactions reflect the majority of Firefox users or are just a noisy minority. Mozilla, after all, likely has a clearer view of the whole user base.

and then still assume that nobody wants something based on a non-representative sample of 52 comments?

Using a search engine would be one.

I believe it was already required to disclose data collection, except you had to build the UI for that yourself. This makes it easier to comply, and more recognisable for us users.

As far as I know you’ll still be able to use the old one. Presumably it won’t see much love, but I don’t think it hasn’t seen much love for years anyway.

That said, you probably won’t see those old profiles in the new profile manager, but if you’re happy with your current setup that doesn’t sound like much of a problem.

By “auto-grouping” you mean that it groups when you drag and drop, but you still want it available in the context menu? You could set browser.tabs.dragDrop.createGroup.delayMS in about:config to a very high number - then you’ll have to hold one tab over the other for a long time before it actually offers to group them.

This is so true. It’s been good enough for me for so many years at this point, and yet it just keeps getting better. The whole experience is so much nicer now than it was years ago, which was better than years before that, etc.

(That said, better hardware also helps a lot.)

Ha, if that’s your first association, I think that might say more about you than about the phone :P

(Which is not a bad thing.)

Alyssa is so incredibly impressive. I don’t usually particularly suffer from impostor syndrome, but I wouldn’t even dream of being able to accomplish what she has.

I appreciate the effort! (Indeed looks like that wasn’t quick to put together.) And yes, that looks like you get a bunch more controls on your wider phone.