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Mozilla is adding tab grouping, vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI features to Firefox (connect.mozilla.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If they do that, normies will start yelling that Firefox has removed their beloved features and will immediately download Chrome. I have a strong suspicion that a majority of people don't use extensions at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you miss this part of my previous comment?

I think Firefox should ship by default with all the functionality it currently has, plus uBlock Origin and some other things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Okay. Replace core features as extensions. Kind of like the suckless philosophy.

While it's a good idea, I think extensions are purposefully made weaker, that is, they don't/can't have the same capabilities of core features. It will require a huge rework which I just don't see happening.