Mozilla using their limited funding to improve the last libre and independent web browser instead of the most useless and overdone ai hipster shit in existence challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) (FAILED)

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Investors like the word AI

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I mean AI is going to happen regardless; I'd rather Mozilla ensures that it's ethical, consumer friendly, and private when it does

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

The problem is that all their money comes from Google and that's a very poor position for them to be in. If they want to be independent and not at the mercy of Google, they need to find other means of funding.

Not a fan of the AI stuff but if it can loosen Google's grip on Mozilla, I'm all for it

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No shit Firefox is really missing:

systemwide Webview for Android and Linux
sandbox compatible with Chromium, especially on Linux and Android
webapps through a secondary profile
very secure preset in privacy settings to make it en par with Torbrowser / Arkenfox
native support for custom Search engines (literally Edge and Chrome have that)
possibility for a side panel with custom sites.

Thats it basically. Firefox is great

[–] WerDei@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

native support for custom Search engines

Can you explain what do you mean by this? I'm already using Firefox address bar to search game wikis directly

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Fenix allows actual manual search engines but no opensearch, Desktop allows opensearch but no manual ones. Yay!

All the good sites have no opensearch, and you cant do cool stuff like presetting the sorting or only used on Ebay.

[–] luwuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/
sandbox compatible? Elaborate please
PWAs would be awesome, agreed
bad for casual, non-techie users, which expect pages to work
every site that supports opensearch is supported, just go on a page supporting it, click on the address bar and click on the green plus symbol
side bar exists as an API for extensions, same for containers! Mozilla provides an official extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-view/

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Geckoview is not a webview for those Platforms.

The Chromium sandbox is way better

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html

Very secure profile. Your argument makes no sense, it would be opt in and Arkenfox works nearly everywhere.

Yeah I am not talking about opensearch but actual custom Search parameters. Fenix doesnt support opensearch too.

~~Oh nice extension, will try that!~~ no that is not a sidebar I would like

Addition: gui button for managing profiles, especially for secure and insecure profile. Most people dont even know profiles exist!

Also: unlocking profile with hardware key