I use LibreWolf and Tor. I don't care what Mozilla does. The garbage will be removed from the forks.
At what point does removing garbage become so complicated that they just stop merging anything in at all.
That will be up to the dev.
Just in time since 2026 we get the alpha of the ladybird browser. This will be a big boost for the new engines currently in development and the popularity of Librewolf.
Ain’t ladybird the browser with project lead Andreas Kling? Well… I don’t know if I wanna be part of that.
Who is that?
Well it was fun while it lasted I guess
Another common mozilla L
so long as it's optional, local, and private.
so long as it’s optional, local, and private.
... yes but also
... which makes for a rather limited list.
My own constraints https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/CollaborationRelyingOnAI recommendations welcomed, both on such rules but also on models that do fit, if any.
I'm sorry, but it's not going to be. Mozilla set the stage of this when they changed from FOSS to source available.
No, Pleaso no, god no
OK peeps, crowd sourcing time.
What other gecko (or non-webkit) browsers are out there?
Except that *Fox, *Fennec and *Wolf are downstream to Firefox, so if the main trunk goes shit, they will become outdated soon.
You kinda want it to be based on Firefox, as the only other option is chrome. The forks already strip out all the mozilla bullshit, it'll just be more work to strip out all the AI nonsense.
I'm mainly familiar with librewolf, it's not just stripped of nonsense but also hardened by default. Actually so much so that I stayed on Firefox as it was too much effort (so far) to "unharden" all the aspects I didn't want or need.
We'll cross that bridge when and if we come to it. Or rather we won't, but the devs behind these projects will.
FOSS to thrive needs people who can afford to spend time and energy on it. With the recent enshittification of workers collective power, developers have less of both, and the trend is pessimistic.
The answer is, and always has been, unions and strikes.
Do your part.
Are you telling that to someone on a .ml instance?
Huh. :P
(This is of course a joke)
Aren’t these all soft forks of Firefox? What we need is a hard fork with the funding and team capable of sustaining it.
Might be I'm dumb, but I don't see any Waterfox downloads for Android?
If you want to sidestep firefox, all firefox descendants would eventually pose the same problem. So I think many options others provided are suboptimal in that regard.
I'm keeping my eyes on ladybird: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird https://ladybird.org/
But it still is in its early stages.
The article quotes him as saying:
AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.
No big deal. If it turns out to be unethical it will be switched off in Librewolf.
Ummmmm, what is an AI browser? I mean, other than something I don't want.
Does it browse AI generated content? Does it generate AI web pages for me? Does it just set chatgpt/copilot/grok/gemini as the homepage/default search? Does it use AI to customize content to your language/reading level? Does it flag non-AI content as potentially malicious like an http site?
I'm so lost.
You made me read the Comet browser review, as I did not have the courage to install it myself.
Seems useful if done privately and under supervision:
As long as it's optional and done right (eg. It can fill the form but it's me who submits it, and the model is running locally), sounds very useful. Also no reason why it can't be a Firefox addon instead of built in.
It AI's the AIable content that AI hasn't already AI'd.
yo dawg, I heard you like AI 😆
Weird Al Yankovic
Can they rename the browser to Fireslop?
That's a sick burn.
So I'm not ready to burn it all to the ground just yet. Mostly because chromium is still so much worse but also because, at least so far, I can disable that and I understand that "ai is money" for fundraising.
But... anyone have any thoughts on the various forks like waterfox and the other one? I don't mind grabbing the extensions I need on a new install but I DO need a way to be able to send tabs between devices. In theory that is something I can selfhost but I am not aware of a good solution.
That's actually a decent take on it.
Mostly because Mozilla is terrible at achieving its goals, so this will probably result in nothing
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