The biggest issue with Mozilla if they didn’t decide to put some form of AI stuff in Firefox is that their competitors could use it as ammunition to fuel an as campaign painting Firefox as not only out of touch and outdated, but less secure because they don’t have AI security.
I can guarantee if average person, like my middle aged parents who aren’t very tech savvy, saw an ad pointing that out (no matter how untrue it is) I’d be told about it the next chance they got, proving they believe it.
They have to keep up with what their competitors are doing or get left behind and die a slow and painful death. AI is just the latest trend to be added, and Mozilla is just trying to keep up to ensure whatever remainder of normies still use Firefox don’t decide to abandon ship.
I personally don’t like it, but what other options are there?
I mean, let’s not forget this is not “putting AI in the browser”. This is just providing a sidebar option that you the user can put AI into, should you want to!
It gives options to users: Exactly what people always tell Mozilla to do.
Wise words ! The best option would be to add AI by default but let’s people to totally disable it either via about:config or an uncheck box in the options.
Let’s be real, only tech savy people mess around with about:config nobs so this wouldn’t bother casual users an give others the possibility to disable it.
The biggest issue with Mozilla if they didn’t decide to put some form of AI stuff in Firefox is that their competitors could use it as ammunition to fuel an as campaign painting Firefox as not only out of touch and outdated, but less secure because they don’t have AI security.
I can guarantee if average person, like my middle aged parents who aren’t very tech savvy, saw an ad pointing that out (no matter how untrue it is) I’d be told about it the next chance they got, proving they believe it.
They have to keep up with what their competitors are doing or get left behind and die a slow and painful death. AI is just the latest trend to be added, and Mozilla is just trying to keep up to ensure whatever remainder of normies still use Firefox don’t decide to abandon ship.
I personally don’t like it, but what other options are there?
I mean, let’s not forget this is not “putting AI in the browser”. This is just providing a sidebar option that you the user can put AI into, should you want to!
It gives options to users: Exactly what people always tell Mozilla to do.
Wise words ! The best option would be to add AI by default but let’s people to totally disable it either via
about:configor an uncheck box in the options.Let’s be real, only tech savy people mess around with about:config nobs so this wouldn’t bother casual users an give others the possibility to disable it.