TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Mozilla is going live with it anyway. I thank locale leaders and localizers for their tireless efforts. Locale leaders seem to be obviated by AI, and Mozilla has nothing to say about it.
As time goes ever onward, I find myself increasingly in the position of using Firefox solely because it isn’t Chromium, rather than because of any inherent good quality.
Which is not to say that Firefox isn’t still at least fine as a browser. But this is what Mozilla is now, and if there’s anything the leaders of that organization are doing, it is that they are committing corporate suicide because none of those idiots know their foot from their mouth. Firefox can’t stay decent with money-men at the helm.
I swear, getting a business major should be considered self-harm.
I think Firefox is still (among) the best option(s) and I have no plans to switch, but their AI pivot definitely has me concerned.
I can’t wait for Servo
Not sure that will save you. Easier to make a browser with a fork than just a library.
You’re thinking short term.
And, what do you mean save me? Am I dying?
Yes, but you’re talking about a fully embeddable browser engine that doesn’t exist yet. I want to see it come to fruition, too, to be clear.
Wouldn’t it be easier to fork Gecko and use that? Or Blink/WebKit? And some already exist (LibreWolf, Brave), so if those aren’t satisfactory replacements then I can’t see Servo being a silver bullet.
To be clear, I love the idea of Servo and I think the browser ecosystem needs to not be an oligopoly. I just don’t think it’s a silver bullet. I do think it can be a step towards an open future of the web and I am fully on board.
Your conflating a fork, with using an engine in your own browser. Nobody is forking Gecko, Blink, or WebKit. LibreWolf is a modified Firefox, not a fork. The LibreWolf team takes every update to Firefox, removes a few features, ads a few more, and releases their version. Same with Brave. Neither is maintaining their own separate fork. They just take the latest from Mozilla or Google and incorporate their code into it.
Maybe someone could fork one of them. Though they wouldn’t be getting any assistance with feature or security updates from the original branch anymore. They’d be totally on their own with what could quickly be an old code base. Which is why nobody does that.
But back to the important part. What do I need to be saved from?