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Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. (mistral.ai)
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[–] 45 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I don't really mind AI features where it makes sense. That being said, as someone else commented, this should have been a plugin.

I'll add on top of that: this should have been a plugin wholly developed by Mistral. Mozilla should stop spending time and money on side features and focus on the browser and its engine. It still is way slower than any chromium based browser, lacks features that have been standard on chromium for years (eg. HDR video playback) and it's way less efficient on battery than the competition.

Complaining about Firefox doing this and groveling on "I'm good, I'm on " is spitting upwards: even the most modified forks like Zen still rely on Mozilla's aging engine.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Exactly. The Blender foundation has stated that it is a tool by humans and for humans, so no AI functionality is planned. However, there are still MCP extensions and the like. There’s nothing stopping anyone from using AI with Blender, but the Blender Foundation funding goes to core development. Not sure why Mozilla isn’t doing the same. If I really want a LLM controlling a browser, playwright-cli works fine anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    It still is way slower than any chromium based browser, lacks features that have been standard on chromium for years

    I don't think its slower at all. Most of the time same if not faster. Maybe it depends on where you go?

    Features in chromium are often there because they are going their own way and not being standard, is that Mozillas fault?

    HDR video is in Firefox, HDR images is experimental. Personally I don't care, why would I watch videos in a browser that I think should have HDR?

    I will agree that Mistral should have done the lifting, and Firefox need not be working so hard on adding AI. However, if they don't people on the other side of the fence will complain that Chrome gets all the AI, why is Firefox so lazy?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    I am on the latest version of FF on Linux and I don't have HDR working, not on YouTube, nor on standalone players like Jellyfin. Yes my display is HDR and Wayland+gnome is exposing HDR properly to games and Helium (chromium fork).

    Since some govt and utilities sites only work on "chrome" (borked even with user agent switcher set to chrome+win on FF) I had to get this other browser, and the speed difference is noticeable on most sites, even tho theoretically FF should be faster since its stripping a lot of crap with uBlock Origin.

    Tried flatpak'd Brave and also runs snappier than FF.

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