Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.

“It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox.”

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      11·
      12 hours ago

      Are you serious? Chromium is very much mostly written by Google and the direction it takes in every way that matters is entirely controlled by Google.

      • onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works
        15·
        12 hours ago

        This still doesn’t mean Google has some kind of ownership for it. Nobody stops you from forking it and taking it into a different direction.

        • russjr08@piefed.zipEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          I mean technically, yes. However the sheer amount of LoC chromium has and the costs of actually hard forking (and properly maintaining it) makes it quite difficult. That’s why right now we only have the choice of Firefox based browsers and Chromium, then hopefully a good third contender being the Ladybird browser in the future.

          You could also go build a house (or even a cabin) with your own two hands, but most people typically go and buy one or pay for one to be built for them instead.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          7·
          12 hours ago

          It actually does. You’re still supporting a browser monoculture unless you change it so radically that it makes no sense to call it a fork anymore