Does this version have vertical tabs or is that still in the nightly build only?
You can enable them in about:config if you search vertical.
Edit: to be more specific, the setting is ‘sidebar.verticalTabs’
Is it possible to use ollama or an arbitrary OpenAI-compatible endpoint with the chatbot feature yet? Or only the cloud providers?
Oh, that auto-PIP for videos is an interesting idea.
I just hope you can set a whitelist or blacklist for that feature. I’d love for youtubes videos to automatically PIP. What I don’t want is the garbage videos on news websites to PIP when I try to change a tab.
That’s honestly the best part of the “don’t autoplay video” feature.
Is firefox getting paid for advertising ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral in their browser?
TL;DR: They added a stupid chatbot feature. Fuck Mozilla as of late.
For clarity: they added an opt-in experimental sidebar that you can put a chatbot of your choice into.
Fair enough. They added an opt-in experimental sidebar that you can put a chatbot of your choice into instead of working on anything more pressing.
To me this doesn’t sound like a massive amount of work went into this, it’s just a sidebar that displays a web page.
Pretty much the same thing happened with Pocket. “Why is Pocket integrated to Firefox?” “Well it’s a project wholly owned by Mozilla. If you don’t like it, you can just remove the button.” “Well I still don’t like it at all - can I remove it entirely to reclaim some of the bloat?” “What bloat? It’s just a button and a few web API calls, disk/memory saving would be negligible.”
Yeah, except everyone in the community disagrees on what that “more pressing” thing is. I am waiting impatiently for tab groups, but I know some people are holding their breaths for vertical tabs (which I couldn’t care less about). I think they should implement ActivityPub and RSS readers natively, but some people are bored by that entire idea.
Meanwhile, Google is putting AI features into Chrome, expanding the expectation that those features will be in any browser; which can impact adoption if they’re not in Firefox, too.
Mozilla has to balance their development between the priorities of multiple types of existing users but also their potential future users. I don’t envy the decision-making process.