Exploring on-device AI link previews in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
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Ever opened a bunch of tabs only to realize none of them have what you need? Or felt like you’re missing something valuable in a maze of hyperlinks?
  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    jwz » Mozilla’s Original Sin

    In my humble but correct opinion, Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

    1. Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
    2. Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
    3. There is no 3.
  • drspod@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    The feature looks like absolute shit. Their supposed use-case is “you opened a bunch of tabs and none of them have what you need” and yet they expect you instead to sit there with your mouse hovering over a link, while holding a shortcut on the keyboard, waiting for the AI summary to finish loading? That would slow you down about 10x versus just opening all the links and looking at the page?

    If they wanted link previews, why didn’t they just prefetch the page and render it normally in a preview thumbnail like the ones that you now get when hovering over an open tab?

    Mindless shoe-horning of AI into the product to check some kind of box for the overpaid C-suite. For shame.