Still waiting for mobile, tab groups missing from Firefox mobile is the only reason I'm still using chrome
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"You asked, we built it" = "Your data is profitable, so we slapped AI on it and feign altruism".
I also asked for compact mode. Where's that?
smart tab groups, a new AI-powered feature that suggests names and groups based on the tabs you have open.
Yeah sure ok. Did the community ask for this too?
I mean, why not?
They integrated accessibility focused, local, AI pretty well.
Loads of folks bitched about it because they were triggered by "AI", but it's essentially invisible, as it should be.
I hate naming things, that's actually something AI is good at, hell yeah, let it name my shit for me please.
Then again, these communities are always full of Debby downers who hate on everything.
[Dr. Who meme format]
Is AI bad?
It Depends. Large corporate AI hosted at a data centre that consumes a nuclear reactor's worth of power and a lake's worth of water for cooling for the purpose of generating slop stolen from Artists and Writers? Yes.
Locally run embedded AI designed for a specific task to automate small processes or enhance the UI experience with little cost to local computing resources because it's been properly optimised? No.
a datacenter is more efficient than lots of smaller individual computers doing calculations independently. They actually make their stuff as efficient as possible, otherwise it hurts margins. So, if you're against datacenter AI because of power, then just stop using ai. If everyone ran locally, the efficiency would be significantly worse overall.
I actually hate what llms have become, but efficiency is still not a good way to compare a datacenter to a home computer.
Yeah for now I remain cautiously optimistic. I have not used their ai stuff once but it was also never shoved down my throat and my browsing experience has not been affected at all, and them finally listening to the community and implementing tabs grouping is just great. If they keep it that way I think we'll be fine
Real.
Was I signed up for some beta? I've had firefox groups for a few weeks now.
And holy shit do I need em.
They do A/B testing for everything now. Why? No clue.
Finally! Thank you!
Now do vertical tab groups pleeease
Try using Zen, it's basically Firefox with vertical tab groups.
*here again. Let's see how long it takes them this time to remove it again.
All that article and they don’t say how to use it it turn it on, smh.
I got a big banner page that asked me if I wanted to turn it on once I updated. Can't miss that really.
welcome Firefox to 2021
Now, the team is experimenting with smart tab groups, a new AI-powered feature that suggests names and groups based on the tabs you have open.
Off course, they found a way to integrate more Ai features.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the inclusion of some small AI feature is what justified the rest of this work being done. As in, someone got approval for tab groups only because they were smart enough to describe it as “AI powered tab groups“. Just speculation
Because you know it’s really hard naming your group yourself
ffs. Of course they had to slap AI on top of it. Goddammit.
Ohhh that's what it is! I was did couple times since the last update; by mistake, didn't know what it was. Now I know.
I had to enable them: about:config -> browser.tabs.groups.enabled -> true
Thank you for this. Now I know hire to turn them off.
Have any Simple Tab Group users tried out Mozilla’s very overdue revisit to this functionality?
I’m interested in pros and cons before switching over.
This update borked my Sidebery config. It doesn't expand on hover anymore. I will look into it after I wake up but does anyone have an idea what could they changed on CSS?
ok, mozilla is at least doing stuff we want along with ai garbage now.
AI garbage seemingly pays the bills...
Seems like it creates bills, but also has enough hype behind it to generate investment/donation interest.
At least the AI runs locally, as opposed to sending everything to someone else's computer for processing. Local translation in Firefox actually works quite well.
Except right now you lose all of your open tabs if you close the browser with the "X" on pc or if you shut the computer down.
To make it save your open tabs right now, you have to click the ... and then select "exit".
Can't you restore them with Ctrl + shift + T or maybe Ctrl + shift + N ?
When I click history in the menu after reopening firefox, I have an option to restore previous session.
I've clicked history to get some pages back, but haven't noticed a restore previous session option. Great if it's there, but still a large bug that's been present for quite a while.
Shit, I remember seeing requests for tab groups for like 20 years under an assortment of names and descriptions. Neat to see. Useless for me, but neat to see.
Now, the team is experimenting with smart tab groups, a new AI-powered feature that suggests names and groups based on the tabs you have open.
I bet you one cheap bottle of mineral water they'll implement this like tomorrow
Next they'll implement DownThemAll natively. Really putting their finger on the pulse of 2008.
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