What Firefox provides here:

A connector to LLM providers.
Accelerators (context menu options).

From a coding perspective, this should ideally be a very lightweight functionality.

This feature is very analogous to options to add a search engine, and also to provide accelerators via context menu.

While it can be done via third-party or Official Mozilla add-ons, but (to me) it still makes sense to have it part of the product.

If you're using a VPN at the OS or browser level, just like any other traffic, your query to the LLM service will be routed via the VPN. That VPN could be any VPN of your choice - Firefox VPN, Mullvad, or Proton etc.

The only problem is that most LLMs require a profile/login to work with. In such cases, using a VPN will be useless, as the LLM server will know who you are.

It's just a plain integration with 3rd-party or self-hosted LLM service.

I'm not sure if Mozilla will make money from this feature in any way.

Have you read anything about it anywhere?

Arch Wiki

It's just an integration with LLM services and not AI baked-in the browser code. You can even self-host any such service (Ollama) and integrate Firefox with it. That will make sure your query is not leaving your network.

Rustdesk controversy

The whole discussion on that pull request is extremely sketchy, IMO.

https://www.opensourcealternative.to/

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Tuba is now added to Gnome Circle. That's a good news.

It’s about their FakeSpot subsidiary.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/review-checker-review-quality#w_protect-your-privacy

Protect your privacy Firefox is committed to empowering you with information about review reliability while respecting your privacy. We use Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) for Review Checker. When Review Checker is turned on, we use information about the products you visit on Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart to analyze the reviews, but by using OHTTP we ensure Mozilla cannot link you or your device to the products you have viewed. OHTTP uses encryption and a third party intermediary server to offer a technical guarantee that this is the case: all Mozilla learns from this network request is that someone, somewhere, looked at a given product.

Also not what I said.

Source: 2022 Hey look, years ago. And your other page was 2018.

Mozilla started selling private data to advertising companies in 2023

(Assuming this is about Pocket) Is it too much to expect from you to know the difference between aggregated non-PII data vs PII data?

Yes, like publishing a new article every day just to prove their commitment to end-users' privacy.

Incremental updates to articles, hosted literally on home page, with details of newer privacy features is so old school.

Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

Source: 2022

Incorrect, that's actually from 2022 B.C.

And your other page was 2018

Correct, the snap of article from 2018 looks exactly identical to 2024 instance with ZERO modifications. Mozilla finally gave us on Privacy it seems, as no one bothered to update that page since 2018.

Wait a sec, they also haven't updated this article as well since 2020. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/chrome/

/s

Seems to have some severe bugs: https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft/issues

but Mozilla itself doesn’t want to broach the topic.

Again, a reminder that Mozilla plans to continue support for the Manifest Version 2 blocking WebRequest API (this API powers, for example, uBlock Origin) while simultaneously supporting Manifest Version 3.

Source: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2022/12/02/webextensions-mv3-webmidi-opensearch-pip-updates-and-more-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-128/

Years ago, Mozilla would explicitly call ad blocking a privacy feature, and proclaim it explicitly.

Ahem! https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/ > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/adblocker/

Cooking up conspiracy theory instead of research is easy, is not it?

... because Mozilla already clarified their position on this last year.

TL;DR

No, Mozilla is NOT ditching manifest v2.

Well what’s happening with MV2 you ask? Great question – in case you missed it, Google announced late last year their plans to resume their MV2 deprecation schedule. Firefox, however, has no plans to deprecate MV2 and will continue to support MV2 extensions for the foreseeable future. And even if we re-evaluate this decision at some point down the road, we anticipate providing a notice of at least 12 months for developers to adjust accordingly and not feel rushed.

Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/

Those won't can access it from Firefox on Linux, use User-Agent Switcher add-on as a workaround.

Do you really think Google will give up on their pole position because of this verdict?

In India, the share of Linux desktop became double just within one year (from 8% to 16%). I only hope this data is right.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india/#monthly-202301-202407

Just installed it, and my initial impression -

• Thanks for dark mode :)
• UI responsiveness is good.
• Need an option to increase/decrease width of reading pane.
• Need multiple themes like Wikipedia website.
• Require smooth scrolling (I'm on 240 Hz monitor but scroll doesn't feel smooth on this app, though apparently uses GPU acceleration)

I was reading somewhere that Intel will publish a tool to verify that.

Anyone tried this beta version yet? Any idea how stable it is?

Thanks for the additional details.

The scariest part of this whole problem is there is no way for the owners of i13/14 CPU to figure out to what extent the CPU is damaged. It's like holding a ticking bomb without knowing when that will go off!

Yes, but then who will dare to buy from them in future?

Care to share the proof that Mozilla sells user data to anyone?

Firefox’s stance on privacy, like Apple’s, is to some extent branding

Some of the recently introduced Privacy related features -

• Enhanced Tracking Protection
• Total Cookies protection
• Browser Fingerprint protection
• DNS Over HTTPS support
• Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support
• Continued Manifest v2 support
• Copy URL without tracking parameter
• Protection against redirect tracking
• In-Built on-device translation

(Further options to harden Firefox via user.js or via about:config)

I moved to Mozilla Thunderbird long ago https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

I think you are looking for this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Alternatively, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions

Whenever you have issue with Firefox, first thing that you should try is 'Troubleshoot mode' -

Firefox Menu > Help > Troubleshoot Mode

I think that's for Gnome App developers and not for regular users.

Firefox Containers are for Cookies and Storage separation. Profile, on the other hand, is a COMPLETE separation in all aspects of Firefox's user data, setup , add-ons.

Always use a separate Firefox profile for banking needs.

Ubuntu 24.04 + Gnome 46 + Wayland + Nvidia Rtx 3070 Ti + Driver v555 + Kernel v6.9.3

• Initially noticed a minor lag when opening Application windows. Then reinstalled libnvidia-egl-wayland1 and apparently that lag is now gone. But, honestly I feel Wayland had more smoother performance with v550, than v555.

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

Uninstall OneDrive, problem solved.

Either Connect to VPN > Download the Add-on.

Or, on the GitHub or Gitlab page, provide a copy of extension and the instruction to install it locally.

Currently I'm using ungoogled-chromium on Linux just for PWA because of this decision made by Mozilla 😔

For What application you face issue? I’m curious as XWayland should provide backward compatibility.

Well, since when Silicon Valley cared about environment or Global warming? It's all about $ always.