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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Been saying the writing is on the wall for their enshittification for months. On lemmy. Every time I end up with 20+ downvotes.

Eat me. Here it comes.

Still using Firefox until it officially sucks, but if you haven't seen it coming you've been willfully ignorant.

I expect a Ubuntu fork packaged with Firefox a la windows 98/IE as a paid OS in the next 5 years to try to undercut Microsoft. Or something. Idk the future.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

oh hey it's you! I actually thought about your comments as soon as I saw this headline. I switched from Firefox to brave a few years ago, then recently switched to waterfox as they are again independent of system1 like before. the browser itself removes a lot of unnecessary Mozilla integrations and also reverts the proton UI. maybe forks like this or Librewolf are the future for this browser?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Ah, the chromium approach.*

No, I think you're right. (I think people will strip down Firefox and those strip down versions will probably persist to be the ideal browser for years to come)

*I am aware that there is a difference here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That's not the chromium approach. That's the Phoenix (a fork of Netscape Navigator) approach.

Of course, Phoenix ended up becoming Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If you don't mind me asking What is the difference?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Willfully ignorant until the end. single browser for everything will be worse for sure