Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar (www.ghacks.net)
from ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 05:28
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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 05:37 next collapse

Gross

murky0106@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 05:44 next collapse

Seems like the are looking for a new revenue stream with their google money looking in doubt

lime@feddit.nu on 06 Sep 07:20 collapse

that was repealed, google is allowed to pay them again

SpicyLizards@reddthat.com on 06 Sep 08:47 next collapse

Dammit. No chance then. Browsers are complex and most are already compromised. What a bummer.

murky0106@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 10:30 collapse

Even so its good for them to diversify. I would rather they take Microsoft’s dirty money and continue to develop Firefox than go under and we are only left with chrome being developed. It is open source so this stuff can easily be removed (hopefully)

lime@feddit.nu on 06 Sep 10:36 collapse

i’m not even sure they’re taking money for this…

goatinspace@feddit.org on 06 Sep 06:28 next collapse

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Fizz@lemmy.nz on 06 Sep 07:16 next collapse

As a Linux user btw and a person who does not like LLM AIs I am trying to give the new tech a chance while im at work forced to use a windows laptop. First I gave Edge a fair shot and its just not as good as firefox and chrome it has 1 features i liked split view. I did not find much use for the sidebar AI and it fucked up most tasks I gave it. Now that Copilot is in the firefox sidebar I can go back to testing it and see if its gotten better since when i was last using edge.

Suicidal take: Copilot is kinda useful I like having it available at the press of a button. I cant be fucked searching the internet for everything and its really useful to be able to get quick answers in the format i want. I would like to have Krunner with a fast response AI plugin on my system because windows copilot implementation is bad its only GenAI instead of providing hard functions like krunner.

m33@lemmy.zip on 06 Sep 07:57 next collapse

I use LLM sparsely, but forcing AI in software is a PITA

Sxan@piefed.zip on 06 Sep 09:33 collapse

You've summed it up nicely. We shouldn't be having to qualify LLM use. It's useful in some narrow niches, but it's being abused, forced into every corner, and it's wrong as often as it's right in many cases. And most people are not informed enough to understand it, and so over-estimate its capabilities.

Corporations are so desperate to capitalize on it and leverage it for short term profits in ways þat harm users and employees, þat we can't even use it for what it's good at wiþout qualifying þat we're not complete dumb fuck wagon-jumpers.

SpicyLizards@reddthat.com on 06 Sep 08:44 next collapse

The update everyone wanted.

They are so blind to their purpose now. One day I hope to get millions for destroying a good product.

bryndos@fedia.io on 06 Sep 09:17 next collapse

Coprolite

qweertz@programming.dev on 06 Sep 10:00 next collapse

I just use LibreWolf and Ironfox

Matty_r@programming.dev on 06 Sep 12:17 next collapse

I’ve been using LibreWolf for a while now, and just started using IronFox today. I’m super grateful those forks exist that allow use to turn that shit off.

Teknikal@eviltoast.org on 06 Sep 13:49 collapse

I installed Ironfox yesterday, Fennec has been completely broken for me for a few weeks now I actually thought it was my Vpn going to hell.

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Sep 20:26 next collapse

Zen fork is great.

pdxfed@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 00:30 collapse

“let’s you”