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OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience
(arstechnica.com)
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Sounds like the best thing that could happen to Firefox
Unfortunately, Mozilla is investing a ton of money into AI, too.
Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.
Mozilla works mainly on LOCAL AI not this corporate trash like closedAI
Mozilla will loose Google's deal money.
Look into Waterfox instead.
That really doesn't solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they're completely dependent on Firefox. You can't just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).
Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird :
Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.
Has Mozilla indicated any openness to taking that approach with Firefox?
this!
Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?
But, maybe "it will be different this time", I guess.