We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld

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Firefox is rapidly becoming a one-stop destination app for every thing I don't want Firefox to be doing floss.social/@omgubuntu/115152…

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2025-09-05 15:46:11

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Mozilla adds CoPilot chatbot to Firefox in the latest nightly builds, plus previews new Task and Timer widgets for the New Tab page.

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#CoPilot #firefox #opensource

Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds

Firefox Nightly builds add CoPilot to the chatbot sidebar, expanding the browser's range of third-party AI service integrations. Plus: new New Tab Page widgets.
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mcc

I've already complained quite a lot about Firefox going AI-brained, but. A *todo list applet*? In … Firefox? Mozilla if you wanted to make an phone OS I would have used your phone OS but if you decide you're going to make a web browser I will not use your web browser as if it were a phone OS

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@psilocervine github.com/Reeywhaar/want-my-r… is a firefox extension that adds a few rss features back.
* Show indicator in the url bar if feed link available
* Show preview page with rss feed
* Subscribe button
* Keyboard navigation with ←|j for previous and →|k for next article

GitHub - Reeywhaar/want-my-rss: RSS features for Firefox

RSS features for Firefox. Contribute to Reeywhaar/want-my-rss development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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mcc

@crazyeddie Whether the various Firefox tracking and AI features are enabled or not is set by flags in about:config. This is a generalized, user-unfriendly settings UI where raw values like "true", "false", or "37" are set with regard to unlabeled keys like "browser.ml.chat.enabled". Firefox turns these things on by default and makes you go into about:config to turn them off. Codeberg turns them off by default and makes you go into about:config to turn them on.
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mcc

@funnymonkey People ask me what the good web browser is now and the only thing I can think to say is "set up a recurring donation to the Servo project and maybe someday you will have one" but that seems like a deeply unsatisfying reply

opencollective.com/servo

Servo - Open Collective

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. For more details on fees, go to https://servo.org/sponsorship/#donation-fees
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mcc

@Darkasvim That could happen, another two possibilities without google money are

- Firefox will drop the browser and go exclusively AI because their ideologically-captured board believes that's the thing that makes money in 2025

- Firefox goes out of business completely.

I've seen their weird new behavior (working with ad companies, working with AI) widely surmised to be them trying to find something they can spin into a post-Google revenue stream.

@Darkas Vim
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mcc

@arubis @mayintoronto Servo's turned around like last year or something, they got moved to the Linux Foundation and now have their own governance and funding sources. They're working on a limited schedule/budget because there's only so much of that funding but they're burning down the task list pretty quick now. I've been working sporadically on a lynx/links like command line frontend to it.
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Christian

Yes but we can only occupied streets back if cars will be disruped by self drive or individual fly mobility gear. Cars are horses with more wast of space and energy.

Edit, but about Firefox. Yes but it was the same with internet, video, text sound html... and now A.I. Chatbots become computers, books, brain interfaces and shit - it went to fast. It will replace our evolution self and thoughts like privecy and interact with the world. An why? Because WE are only layer 2 and above..

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keithzg

I've had zero Wayland problems with Falkon (which is KDE's QtWebEngine-based, and thus ultimately Blink-based, browser) and very few Chrome problems as of about the last year and change (well, that were even remotely concievably Wayland-related, at least), to give a small piece of anecdata. Important caveats: I'm using KDE and an AMD GPU, and the world is a yawning pit of chaos
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I think, of the generally Chrome-based browsers, Falkon is probably the least questionable? At very least it won't suddenly start sucking at the whim of some business execs *other* than whatever percolates through Blink.

It's really too bad Konqueror got abandoned, since among other things its ability to change browser engines on the fly and per-tab would be great to help usher Servo into the world—and a wonderful irony, given the lineage and history of Servo being abandoned by Mozilla while literally every remaining non-Mozilla browser engine is a fork of Konqueror's KHTML

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keithzg

@jibbolus @mcc Gecko has been weirdly difficult to port or embed in varying and sometimes "hilariously" worsening ways for basically its entire lifespan (it's why Apple went with KHTML despite hating the GPL, after all).

Maybe this will be the point of Gecko becoming philisophically and/or functionally unusable enough to be the push Servo needs to become the go-to Other engine and people hopefully discovering it being much easier to include in other software?

@mcc @Giovanni De Francesco
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