Mozilla developing Page Buddy, a chatbot built directly into Firefox
Mozilla developing Page Buddy, a chatbot built directly into Firefox
hg-edge.mozilla.org
autoland @ e73ce84b5e34
35 comments
-
-
So annoying how they can be champions of being a non Chrome-based alternative but miss the mark so fucking hard. They will alienate their active users and fail at attracting new ones at the same time.
-
IIRC they had 2% of users, which makes it hard to go lower yet they achieve it.
-
I've been a Firefox/FF derivative user for two decades. Literally everything Mozilla is doing really drives me away from Mozilla products. Switching a tab-strip and extension compatible mobile browser into a crud-tab management, no extension mobile browser made me stop using Firefox as a mobile browser half a decade ago. Implementing all of this AI nonsense while increasing the CEO salary is about to drive me away from Firefox (And LibreWolf, which insists on bundling all of this in their browser).
I just downloaded Ungoogled Chromium and will take it for a spin.
-
-
Just straying further and further from their core focus. 🙄
-
Getting paid by google so they can say, "look! We are not a monopoly!"
I am only half joking, I like firefox and use it daily but mozilla really seems intent on destroying everything good about it.
-
After looking for more information about this, it turns out Mozilla is also working to add Google image search directly into Firefox.
-
-
-
Pre release samples of the avatar:
-
-
But most importantly
He attacHe consume your data like a snac
-
-
-
Oh wow been using FF for decades, and never quite put a finger on what's missing. Was it the impossibility to use conferencing software? 😀NO I WAS MISSING A PAGE BUDDY! 😀 Whoever is the PO of Firefox, fuck you
-
I've been using Firefox since it was resurrected from Netscape Navigator, but man... it feels more and more like they don't want me to use it.
-
stop pls we just want xul extensions not llms and chatbots
-
WHY?
-
Thank god I use a fork of Firefox and not the base
-
I can tell. They’re certainly not working on making the browser faster.
I’ve been a Firefox guy as long as it’s been around, I’ve been shouting from the rooftops about how it’s faster since “quantum” was released. The last few releases have been sluggish and stuttery.
I recently had to switch to Chrome for a site that wouldn’t work correctly in Firefox. Chrome was incredibly snappy.
To be fair, I have a shitload of windows open with a shitload of tabs open in Firefox and I had like 3 tabs open in Chrome, two of which where like the “welcome” and “what’s new” built-ins
But uBlock Origin doesn’t work on Chrome anymore so, they can fuck off
-
Maybe if they actually prioritize wanted/long term features, they can actually raise user share.
I'm no dev but I'm bitter JS apps (as in Electron apps) only run Blink, no Gecko.
-
Too many Firefox users remember "Bonzai Buddy" for "Browser Buddy" to be a good name
-
I really like the chat bot built into the DDG browser. It's free, anonymous (proxied) LLM access. I don't see the harm in Firefox adding one.
If you don't want it in Firefox, there will definitely be forks that don't have it.
-
I like the approach from duckduckgo, it's an option to open up, and keeps you anonymous.
35 comments
Can I just have one thing without a fucking chatbot?
I just switched to LibreWolf because I was getting tired of the AI bloat creeping into Firefox.
I'm with you. Please let this be something we can opt out of and not have laying dormant on our disks taking up useless space.