Hey Firefox friends! We’re trying something new and would love your help. Features like tab groups, vertical tabs, profiles, new tab wallpapers, PWAs, and taskbar pinning weren’t just ideas – they were direct responses to what you told us you wanted. Your input has helped shape where Firefox is tod...
  • illusionist@lemmy.zip
    625·
    5 months ago

    My guess:

    • More personalized ads
    • less customization
    • fewer functionality
    • more pay for the CEO
    • development behind closed doors like AOSP
    • own search engine
    • infeeeee@lemmy.zip
      452·
      5 months ago

      I also hope they add some AI thing. OMG I need more AI things in my webbrowser. It doesn’t matter what it does, but it has to have this icon: ✨, that’s the important

        • infeeeee@lemmy.zip
          15·
          5 months ago

          I know, but one AI is not AI enough! I need one at the address bar, so I can write there my prompt directly. I need one to help sort my tab groups. One which automatically changes my settings, etc. The possibilities are endless, we have to add more ai features until we eliminated all legacy, distracting, non ai buttons

          • Ferk@programming.dev
            1·
            5 months ago

            All you need is the promptbar. No need to waste resources rendering a bloated page. Have the AI summarize the contents in one sentence and then speak it out loud so I don’t have to read.

    • unalivejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      own search engine

      It’s going backwards. You’re supposed to make a search engine first, then create a web browser.

  • DaddleDew
    24·
    5 months ago

    I see a web browser like a TV screen. An I need it to do is display the internet with nothing in the way. Any attempt to add built-in “smart” features to it will make it worse. If I want something else added to it, I’ll plug it in myself.

    • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      Man I am the complete opposite. I need my browser to display the Web with tons and tons of tweaks and adjustments and filters in place to make it actually readable for me. Rawdogging the Web in 2025 is wild.

      • DaddleDew
        13·
        5 months ago

        That’s fine. Those are the plugins you chose to install for your particular tastes and these are very important options to have available to the user should he choose to use them. That’s not what I meant by “smart” features.

        What I don’t want is my browser with built-in modern equivalents of Bonzi Buddy that you can’t remove.

    • Garrapata@programming.dev
      1·
      4 months ago

      Maybe you should try qutebrowser (if you are not already using it). I’m not very into it, but maybe it fonds you

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    11·
    5 months ago

    Anywhere so long as they don’t try to kill adblockers

    Everything else the forks can work around. What’s important is they don’t give into manifest v3/WEI and become complicit in the death of adblockers.

    • ZeroOne
      5·
      5 months ago

      Now we have to just figure out a way to safely transplant Servo into FireFox-Forks

    • 6nk06@sh.itjust.works
      52·
      5 months ago

      Same but with LadyBird. Once its available, a lot of nerds will definitely advocate for its usage if its good.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I doubt it’ll be usable on most websites when they release their first version. It might take decades to support current web standards…

        • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
          3·
          5 months ago

          I mean, it’s already better than servo at following web standards, although it’s slower.