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Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

How do you make browsling a good experience, other than performance?

I like the webpage translation it offers. I'd hate to lose it. Sync and tab sending is also very important to me, between desktop, mobile phone, and tablet.

I'm sure debloating would inevitably mean losing features that are required to catch the average internet user.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why not add this features as browser extension?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Extending and managing extension APIs and extensions also comes at a cost. I certainly wouldn't be against that - but I'm not familiar with the technical details or cost of the features involved.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    If a browser only aims at tech savvy people, practically no one will end up using it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, a good browser should probably take an approach similar to Linux Mint.

    It has to be easy to install and it has to work great for like 99.9% of normal uses without changing a single setting.

    But, being free and open, if you are tech savvy then you can change and customize whatever you want. Sometimes it means I can lock down the privacy and data storage in my browser, and sometimes it means I can change the icon on my work computer's "start" button to be a check engine light. It's all just part of being able to use your computer the way you want to.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    This is an UI issue. You could just show them a landing Page and ask them if they want this new feature, and then it installs the extension in the background, without explicitly ask the user to go to the extension page to install something by hand.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Well this is obviously personal to some degree, but for me it would be to fix bugs, don't crash, dont make me restart after an update and lose my incognito tabs, focus on being w3c compliant, block ads, maybe allow blocking annoying cookie banners and maybe allow good keyboard navigation. I like some features other browsers have, such as integrated tor browsing - but since I am not a big fan of bloat, I'm not sure whether that should be handled outside of the browser

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    block ads, maybe allow blocking annoying cookie banners and maybe allow good keyboard navigation.

    those are/could be browsing extensions. i don't see why the browser should integrate ad blocking when it could just be an extension (that could be installed by default, like how librewolf has ublock origin installed by default).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Fair, I'm all in for de-bloating! The only problem with plugins is that it can become increasingly difficult to provide the same quality of testing and quality, because you can't possibly test all combinations of enabled plugins - even if most don't interfere with each other, it can easily break stuff

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