Is this the official Mozilla connect survey? I believe the question order and groupings were randomized, and that may have been a (IMO bad) control question.

The subtle ways having a toxic community affects unconscious design decisions. It’s a message.

…joking, to be clear. Could be a raindrop.

Hey, I got curious and decided to take a look at how things are going.

Currently, there’s a big meta issue on Bugzilla (1907090) with dozens of sub-issues tracking development of tab grouping on desktop, and they’re actively being worked on right now. Seems like there’s simply a lot of work to be done, especially of the invisible sort, before we get the feature proper. But things are progressing nonetheless!

So I’d say there’s no need to join the crowd asking that on every other announcement… but that’s just what I think. Hopefully this was helpful :^)

I’ve already seen people suggesting “expand on hover” to Mozilla, on Connect, I think. Hoping they consider it, later on.

To be clearer, at least for now, they’re literally separate checkboxes. I have the sidebar on, AI off.

I would love it if Mozilla cast the AI trend aside

I feel you… :^(

The AI assistant stuff is currently an opt-in experiment.

By overestimating users’ intelligence… classic blunder, really. 🧐

I jest, I’ve no idea.

I forgot those exist and interpreted it as “Would you sacrifice performance for one of these features?”

Am I stupid?

Love ncdu! If you’re into trying out alternatives with extra features, take a look at dua, too.

I played through the entirety of TF2 on Linux a while back, so I’m curious as to what’s the issue. Please share more details about your system and steam setup when you can.

Ah, figures, thank you. I still don’t get it, with the counts I’m seeing, but I think we’ve gone deep enough down this comment chain already.

what does that even mean

Yeah, you do you. I don’t think posting to three relevant communities is being annoyingly self-promotional, though. Two of them are literally just the same community in two different instances. Why, I find it weird there’s no post to !firefox@lemmy.world

I assumed your first comment was a complaint that they were posting in too many communities. I was disagreeing and presenting why I think that assessment would be incorrect, and sneakily trying to hint that you might want to consider a different app/frontend if this was bothering you.

I only found three posts, all in (at least) semi-relevant communities. I think my frontends of choice only show me one, then reference the others below as crossposts.

Right, Apple doesn’t have an ad-revenue & tracking empire to protect, and should Safari adopt PPA, the discussion changes. It would no longer be the API used merely by Firefox with its (estimated) 2.7% user base trying to gain any traction, it could be Chrome holding back the tech used by a cumulative (estimated) 20% of web users. That’s a very different conversation.

Also, despite advertisers and big tech’s best efforts, the chance remains that legislation is passed somewhere imposing stricter privacy protections on the web. Again, should that happen, PPA might be well positioned as an alternative to past methods of measuring ad effectiveness that advertisers wouldn’t necessarily like… but any alternative that works could make them less resistant to such an important change.

All hypothetical, of course, but if you never consider future possibilities, what are you even aiming for?

Haven’t finished reading the article because I need to go out, I plan to do so later, but is this… Is this actually a sane and nuanced take on the complex browser scene and its issues? Did not expect that in my tech media bingo today.

Thought I’d forgotten 'bout this comment, didn’tcha? Sorry to say, I’m very good at restarting old discussions instead of sleeping on time.

I tried looking into this again, and although I’m not sure, I don’t think you can. Please do comment if you have any insight on this.

I trimmed down the fat and replaced it with “…”, but feel free to open the GH terms of use and read the cited sections yourself.

While there is this option on the GH settings for Copilot:

• Allow GitHub to use my code snippets from the code editor for product improvements

…I find it entirely unclear what, precisely, is being disallowed when this is unchecked. Surrounding text and links are unhelpful.

Also, if I understand the relevant law properly here, many AI companies are likely betting on training being fair use. Your rights, your power to dictate terms in a LICENSE, are thus irrelevant if fair use applies. I lack the background to tell how the COPIED Act, were it to pass, would change this in regard to code, if at all.

Finally, there’s that question… do you actually trust companies to follow the rules in good faith?

I can’t imagine any way this is possible without crowdsourced information, and at that point you’re just interacting with a community (likely the same one as you already are) through a different interface.

But if such an interface existed, it could be a cool project.

Didn’t think I had to say it explicitly. As far as influencing Mozilla’s course, I don’t believe those to be very helpful methods. A fork may be helpful, but it highly depends on the developer(s). I argue against the second one all the time. Third is laughably counterproductive.

Mozilla is capable of responding to (esp. proper) feedback. For example, regardless of what you think about the subject, the community sent a pretty clear message when they started accepting cryptocurrency donations, which I’m sure they’re still keeping in mind to this day.

Point being, engaging with them is one thing that helps and I can do just fine. No need for “endless doom screeching.”

Re: positive news. Yes, on paper it can. We’ll see how it turns out in reality. I’ve explained why I’m not immediately into it, though your comment seems to ignore that part of mine. I do want it to work out though, if for no other reason than because what’s done is done and ultimately, I just want Firefox to thrive.