Mozilla plans to add artificial intelligence features to its Firefox web browser. At the WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers and Mozilla Foundation president Mark Surman shared their vision for the future of the web with WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims. Plus, new research questions how much screens before bed actually delay sleep.
Nooooo
Why is this being added to the browser and not as an extension? At the very least, I would assume it’s pretty easy to turn off; but, this looks like feature creep causing the browser to bloat up again.
Gross. What do I need AI in browser for
Does it utilize the NPU? Can you customize the features at all? I wouldn’t want it erroneously using vast chunks of my CPU for marginal benefit.
It’s locally generated alt-text for images, which is useful for blind people with screen readers
Good use of AI
I’m surprised that Firefox has no AI elements already. As long as they don’t add some LLM BS, I’m sure we’ll be just fine.
(That’s sarcasm, they are indeed talking about LLM specifically, and not AI in general.)
They’re adding auto-generated alt-text for images for blind people. Processed with an on-device ai
It has AI elements already, such as a page translator.
Yes, that’s what I’m getting at (but thank you for elaborating).
The article makes it seem like they want to “add AI” to Firefox, while it in reality appears to be about LLM. It is
unthinkableunlikely that Firefox would not already have some kind of AI implemented.
I’m using Fulguris as my browser and I’m so glad I found it on F Droid
