Why do you weirdos want tabs on the sidebar anyway?
I find them much more natural and easy to manage
You can nest them
Edit: the pettiness to downvote this comment lmao
It’s also easiert to read the titles of the tabs.
For what it’s worth, I don’t want tabs or AI in the sidebar. And I don’t want a sidebar
Instructions unclear, now you get two sidebars one for each side, another bar at the bottom, all filled with chatbots so you can chatbot while you chatbot. There’s a fee for each one though. Shit isn’t free.
We used to joke in 2010s: what is Internet Explorer? It’s a program that is used to download a browser.
Nowadays, what is Mozilla Firefox? It’s a repository you fork to make a browser.
Firefox forks have dozens of users! Dozens!
As long as I can use something that isn’t Chrome’s 0dayware with 5 CVEs a week, I don’t care how many people use it.
But they’re also working on sidebar tabs. It’s out in nightly already
Don’t get me wrong, I think what Mozilla did is absolutely stupid. But unless it’s spying on you as you browse or whatever, how is this a problem? From what I see here in Developer Edition, it just iframes the chat window and docks it in a sidebar. It’s just bloat for people who don’t use it, or turn it off, and an upgrade for people who will use it.
My only problem with it is that this kind of stuff should be an add-on.
I haven’t looked into the chatbot thingy at all yet, but if it meets basic quality standards (local LLM, not too large in size, actually helpful), then personally, I do actually think that it should be included by default, because it’ll primarily help out the kind of users who don’t know to install add-ons.
Like, people had the same complaint with the translation feature they included, and I’m just seeing my dad who doesn’t speak English, who would never hear of such an add-on, where this just opens up a big chunk of the web to him.
Its functionality to integrate with whatever LLM you use - local or SAAS. I can’t say I’m excited about the feature, but I think it’s also a bit silly that people are angry about it (though I take the point about development priority).
It’s healthy for Firefox’s market share to keep feature parity with Edge and other browsers that have the same function but with a manufacturer-pushed service.
Wait, it’ll actually let you use local LLMs?
That would legitimately help me out. I use LLMs a lot for simple data restructuring, or rewording of explanations when I’m reading through certain sources. I was worried they would just do a simple ChatGPT API integration and have that be the end of it, but maybe this will end up being something I’d actually use.
It is spying on you. https://make-firefox-private-again.com/
about:config
dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled
set to false
