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Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mozilla is unhappy because the use of browser engines other than WebKit will be restricted to the EU, forcing them to develop two different apps.

For an independent browser like Firefox, managing two browsers is not easy, so it can be forgiven that this could be seen as almost harassment.

Also, the fact that the use of browser engines other than WebKit is limited to iOS means that the use of WebKit is still forced on iPadOS, which also increases the effort for Mozilla.

Source: https://iphonewired.com/news/746093/

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Mozilla has a budget of around 200 mil for software development, so the 7 mil are probably not enough. Not defending the high pay though.

Also, AI Integration into browsers could very well be a deciding factor for mainstream users when choosing a browser. So having some expertise around e.g. running LLMs privacy preserving on client hardware for page summarisation could pay off. Llamafile for example, is something cool coming from the Mozilla AI stuff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

page summarisation

I see a future where the journalist gives the LLM two sentences and asks it to spit out a 2000 word article out of that.

The user then asks the LLM to Tl;Dr the article down to the two core sentences.

Same probably for business email. Jane goes "send an email to Joe saying no." The LLM goes "dear joe.. we appreciate.... your valuable conteibution.. unfortunately at this time... cannot consider... looking forward... thanks for .... whatever". Joe then clicks the "summarise" button and gets "Jane says no".

Amazing how far we've come.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The same with resumes. Using a LLM to write a resume and cover letter out of key facts, sending it, turning it back into key facts around the applicant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Firefox is the only browser with local website translation. Literally the extension is the only app on Android that does that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wrong. Vivaldi has had local translation for half a year now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Cool! So it works on Chromium, they just need to implement it. Is it Foss? Do they use the same thing as Firefox?