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It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
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As long as it is open source, it doesn’t matter. Forks like Librewolf will disable it.
It does matter a bit.
Librewolf devs depend on firefox development. They just rip out the stupid bits. They're not prepared to maintain a hard fork. They could still decide to do it, but it would take more community involvement.
And a shitload of time to keep the fork relevant as web sites keep evolving.
Is there a Librewolf for phones? Can I somehow self-host the synchronization services?
I use fennec on phone
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid
There is a shiton of browsers for phone but this one is often updated and the icon is cute (the most important feature)
Fennec is slow to update actually (because of F-Droid mainly) and also it is NOT comparable to Librewolf.
There is also Firefox Focus which us basically a stripped down fennec. I use it as my default browser with JS disabled.
Is there a fennec like on desktop? I find librewolf has changed too much for what I want out of a Firefox fork. Websites just did not run the way I expected them to and I could not be arsed to fiddle with all of the different knobs to get them to work.
Zen is what I use, there's also Waterfox.
I liked Zen but it was a nightmare to deal with on multiple devices and dealing with multiple windows broke a lot of the essential stuff like them being unpinned on one window but not the new one but the new one has the original window essential now also as a standard tab. And they kept changing the way you switch between workspaces without the necessary customisation options to change it back and any of the mods that "fixed" those issues would then break unless updating the files manually because their fixes had to be merged into the main repo that zen uses for mods which didn't happen fast enough. So I gave up and and actually switched to edge briefly for it's implementation of vertical tabs (which i still think is done the best) until Firefox proper gained a good enough vertical tab implementation and I've been there since.
Install Firefox and disable telemetry, that's pretty much what Fennec does.
Ah that's what I already do
There's IronFox
You can actually host your own firefox sync service. It's kinda a pain to configure auth but it is entirely possible.
Fennec and IronFox.
AI and open source don't really go hand in hand
Ollama + Mistral models is pretty open. All the code and weights are open with a permissible licenses.
If Luddites get their way, that will become the case forever. It is okay if you don't want AI in your personal life, but I worry that opposition like yours will ensure that only wealthy jackasses have ownership over AI.
The important thing is to support efforts to create truly open AI and make it a public good available to all. Projects such as LlamaCPP, Olmo, Apertus, Heretic, and others will be key to allowing ordinary people to become masters of the technology.
if google is still the majority of the revenue, it will close it down the line.