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No, Pleaso no, god no
I use LibreWolf and Tor. I don't care what Mozilla does. The garbage will be removed from the forks.
At what point does removing garbage become so complicated that they just stop merging anything in at all.
I heard that it's hard as hell, but now I can't remember if the dev who said it was from Firefox or Chrome.
I remember stories of Google intentionally making it hard for people to fork the project and maintain updates on it.
Never heard anything like that about Firefox, but doesn't mean they don't.
That will be up to the dev.
How long can they do they for. Like it or not Mozilla does most of the coding for those browsers. 0
so long as it's optional, local, and private.
so long as it’s optional, local, and private.
... yes but also
- open source,
- open model,
- all annotations done with proper respect to
- labor law (ideally verified by 3rd party)
- IP
- clear on ecological cost
- CO2 eq in model card (ideally verified by 3rd party)
- analogy non technical user can understand
... which makes for a rather limited list.
My own constraints https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/CollaborationRelyingOnAI recommendations welcomed, both on such rules but also on models that do fit, if any.
I'm sorry, but it's not going to be. Mozilla set the stage of this when they changed from FOSS to source available.
Just in time since 2026 we get the alpha of the ladybird browser. This will be a big boost for the new engines currently in development and the popularity of Librewolf.
Ain’t ladybird the browser with project lead Andreas Kling? Well… I don’t know if I wanna be part of that.
The article quotes him as saying:
AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.
No big deal. If it turns out to be unethical it will be switched off in Librewolf.
Is KDE browser hanging around still? I know apple based their browser off of it.
We will get Orion-Browser soon which is based on webkit.
However, Servo ist currently what we need to lay our hopes on. Do everything you can to contribute there. From donations over reports to code. Even if it is just spreading the word. It is currently the single most important FLOSS project out there.
God I can't wait until Servo is viable
just leaving this here: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115728747391375438
No, but it’s still based on Chromium which killed off effective ad blocking.
vivaldi's blocker says otherwise.
Well it was fun while it lasted I guess
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