Mozilla is FINALLY pulling the plug on 32-bit Firefox builds for Linux, a decade after Google Chrome did the same. Why now? It says they're getting hard to build.
I mean some of them have been good. I actually really like the offline translation, for example. No more sending data to Google Translate servers is a genuine privacy win.
There’s also been some better screen reader support integrated because of it, and my sister loves it, she just wants it to be expanded further.
Yes, there’s also the LLM integration, which I’m… less enthused by, to say the least.
But at least it’s optional and can be tied into local models if you wish. Plus there’s the factor of new normie users testing out Firefox and going “it doesn’t have a gpt bot? Pfft I’m going back to Chrome, Firefox is so far behind” to contend with. If the market decides it wants that feature, then Mozilla can’t really ignore it.
to counter the “gotta appease normies”, think of how good firefox could be for accessibility if they put all the effort spent on llm integration and whatnot into making the useful AI features even better
like firefox is obviously not going to win in the normie department, but it could be so hilariously superior for disabled users that no one in that demographic even considers using chrome any more, and i think that would be quite effective at getting firefox onto public service computers.
More AI features. Hooray!
I mean some of them have been good. I actually really like the offline translation, for example. No more sending data to Google Translate servers is a genuine privacy win.
There’s also been some better screen reader support integrated because of it, and my sister loves it, she just wants it to be expanded further.
Yes, there’s also the LLM integration, which I’m… less enthused by, to say the least.
But at least it’s optional and can be tied into local models if you wish. Plus there’s the factor of new normie users testing out Firefox and going “it doesn’t have a gpt bot? Pfft I’m going back to Chrome, Firefox is so far behind” to contend with. If the market decides it wants that feature, then Mozilla can’t really ignore it.
to counter the “gotta appease normies”, think of how good firefox could be for accessibility if they put all the effort spent on llm integration and whatnot into making the useful AI features even better
like firefox is obviously not going to win in the normie department, but it could be so hilariously superior for disabled users that no one in that demographic even considers using chrome any more, and i think that would be quite effective at getting firefox onto public service computers.