Plz not you mozilla, you are one of the last good guys that remains from the early days

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hard to tell what your objection is. i think layoffs are sad, and i hope it wasn’t a matter of corporate greed. but i’m excited for the AI thing

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They’ve said they want to do local AIs though. If that’s the case I’m all in.

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Firefox on Android doesn’t support keyboard shortcuts - for the last 12 years. Sooo - let’s add the bloody AI, that is going to help

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Why are u using a keyboard on a smart phone? Is that a thing?

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  1. They’re not adding ai to Firefox, at least that’s not what the memo said, the memo said they were refocusing on Firefox (firing people who worked on their metaverse thing for example), and doing so on the side.
  2. They specifically stated that Firefox mobile is a big focus moving fowards
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to be fair, most people aren’t using physical keyboards with their phones, this mostly applies to tablets (which are much less popular) and android tv (where firefox isn’t even officially supported anymore)

anyway, even without that issue, the android version of firefox is kinda janky and regularly gets stuck while loading websites

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bt keyboards can be absolutelly critical for some users with disabilities. most of the developing world can’t afford to own several devices like a computer and a phone.

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So to recap, your choices are

  1. One of 70 flavors of Chromium including the “privacy centric” Opera who run Chinese loan shark gangs for some reason, Edge which is Microsoft Chromium and aside from hardware acceleration capabilities is pretty meh, and Brave which despite operating their own separate search engine index are one of the most likely to sell your data and/or kidneys

  2. Rapidly Enshitifying Firefox

  3. Safari - no comment

  4. Whatever the fuck Gecko is…

  5. Tor Browser (for people with infinite time to wait for pages to load, or maybe just drug dealers)

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Librewolf is built on Gecko, people often accredit it as a “firefox fork”.

Tor Browser seems cool, it’s what I use on my phone whenever I have spare time to let it load before searching things which don’t require a lot of bandwidth. I’ll edit the above list.

Mullvad? Is that some kind of slur? I’ve never heard of that but searches say it’s a VPN client. ¯\(ツ)

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RE: point 1, I’m a fan of Vivaldi, a privacy-focused highly modified chromium build developed by former Opera developers who were disillusioned by the direction that company went in.

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The chromium part is still problematic. I’ll stick with the only other option until they shit the bed completely :(

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That sounds nice, I’ll check it out.

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I hope the folks laid off land on their feet.

I’m starting to think FF is being deliberately run into the ground by the higher ups. It would be good to hear from some of the devs about their thoughts on all this.

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