> The response from the Firefox community has not just been overwhelmingly negative, it is universally negative as far as I can tell.
Insofar as I count as part of the Firefox community as a long-time user and infrequent bug reporter: I want useful, non-creepy AI features in my main browser, or it's probably not going to remain my main browser for too long.
Of course I also want them to be fully optional, but I have no reason to believe that they would be anything but.
Let's say I want a 5000mAh power bank supporting 12v USB PD output and trickle charging. And it's got to be available in my country.
To find such a thing I basically have to open loads of product pages cross-reference retailers' websites with manufacturers' product pages.
If I could automate that process, it'd be pretty neat.
Thanks.
I don't think I understand why that would be implemented in the browser and not as its own service, but it does sound useful.
I just did the same thing with "very famous rock live acts performing within 500 miles of my location within the next 9 months". Whether this kind of functionality needs to be delivered via the browser I'm not sure. The LLM has to be server hosted, so may we well host the rest of it server-side, perhaps?
"Hey AI rewrite this comment to sound smarter" :)
What features? Voice control?
If it is about chat, do we actually need Firefox adapted when you can go to gemini.google.com or some other one and write what you want there? Optionality is ensured since you actively have to go there.
Yeah I think although he acknowledges how biased the Firefox forum poster sample is, I think he is vastly underestimating just how biased.
If Firefox is reduced to just nerds who post in forums it's totally dead. Maybe it's at that point already.
Tbh I still use Chrome because Firefox's performance just isn't as good. I wish it weren't so but there we go.
What useful, non-creepy AI features are there?
I cannot imagine why one would want AI in a browser at all, but I am open to the possibility that there are applications I have not considered.