I'm always surprised that stuff like the AI integration isn't done as a pre-installed extension.

If it's Mozilla signed then you could give it extra permissions so it still works the same, but then people who it offends can remove it.

Like how their tab containers system is a (not pre-installed) extension

ehh this reads a bit like the hn comments complaining about sites that don’t work with js disabled

like what percent of firefox users do you think actually care about this?

Given the abysmal market share of Firefox today I think a large percentage of the remaining users do actually care.

No one care about this story at large. It's a pretty bad argument to make among the population that does care. Every HN user can leave Firefox and it'd still be running.

Fortunately, history has shown you don't need a majority of users decrying something to get noticed.

enough to move to zen after 20+ years

I'm sure it's a very small amount, but as well as making me personally happy*, (I feel) it would play into their image as the good guy.

"Do you want the most minimal stripped down version of FireFox? Well you can have it!"

*and after all, isn't that what's really important /s

What's the saying?

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

At some point the rate of stupidity becomes suspicious again.

YouTube are already doing it! :(

Not very well, it's always too vague. Good opportunity to compete with a browser extension or service!

google'd [ai summary youtube transcript] and there's already at least 10

> $THING isn't just $THIS, it's also $THAT!

Is pure marketing speak, which is also what I find a lot of LLM generated text sounds like

Someone in a past thread here mentioned how they enjoyed the help of LLMs to generate all their PR marketing nonsense blurbs, because they looked just as good as the real thing. It might have been 2-3 years ago but I still joke about this with coworkers when the conversations shift to "AI".

The difference I think, is that the libraries are open source, and you don't have to pay Facebook yearly to use React.

Countries can and do ban closed source paid products when they don't trust the provider (e.g. Huawei)

When you buy hardware that goes rogue you're forced to throw it away and install something new, which costs money for hardware and labor.

When a GMO goes rogue you can just buy a different seed the next planting season, which you were going to do anyway.

The top of a lot of the ARIA docs pages say "No ARIA is better than bad ARIA"

I really like (not) when people read about accessibility and the first thing they decide to do is adding keydown handlers on all the buttons that have clicks handlers. Like, please, treat it like the rest of UX and design for it, instead of going with a checklist over all the places linter flagged.

I think its the difference between outcome-based and KPI-based management.

One is a lot easier and requires a lot less thought and general understanding of one's own business

How have I never looked at the DVD cover close enough to notice that!?

I feel like I get ${local_country} politics* because I follow people from ${local_country} and most the other people I follow who do post about US politics tend to spoiler their posts with USPOL, so I can just scroll past if I'm not feeling it.

* Usually spoilered with "${local_country_code}POL"

The realistic right now worry is that you'll fall afoul of Cloudflare's bot checking and they just won't connect you through to your destination.

The potential future worry would be if cloudflare decide they don't like the article or you for some other reason, they can refuse to connect you.

These do both rely on your traffic being routed through Cloudflare's servers, but a LOT of traffic is