Firefox 130.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
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  • drspod@lemmy.ml
    20·
    2 months ago

    I love that the local translation feature is getting regular small updates to make it more useable. It’s a great feature.

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
    16·
    2 months ago

    Is firefox getting paid for advertising ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral in their browser?

    • dodos@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      You can enable them in about:config if you search vertical.

      Edit: to be more specific, the setting is ‘sidebar.verticalTabs’

      • VBB@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Also sidebar.revamp. It’s kinda underwhelming, because as of now sidebar doesn’t include tab titles and empty headerbar isn’t removed. Hope it’s going to be improved in the future

  • projectmoon@lemm.ee
    4·
    2 months ago

    Is it possible to use ollama or an arbitrary OpenAI-compatible endpoint with the chatbot feature yet? Or only the cloud providers?

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      313·
      2 months ago

      For clarity: they added an opt-in experimental sidebar that you can put a chatbot of your choice into.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        164·
        2 months ago

        Fair enough. They added an opt-in experimental sidebar that you can put a chatbot of your choice into instead of working on anything more pressing.

        • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
          221·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, except everyone in the community disagrees on what that “more pressing” thing is. I am waiting impatiently for tab groups, but I know some people are holding their breaths for vertical tabs (which I couldn’t care less about). I think they should implement ActivityPub and RSS readers natively, but some people are bored by that entire idea.

          Meanwhile, Google is putting AI features into Chrome, expanding the expectation that those features will be in any browser; which can impact adoption if they’re not in Firefox, too.

          Mozilla has to balance their development between the priorities of multiple types of existing users but also their potential future users. I don’t envy the decision-making process.

            • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 months ago

              Vertical tabs, ActivityPub, and RSS yes; but while Sidebery makes tabs vertical, it can’t actually do grouping on the existing tab bar. Actually, no add-on can touch the tab bar (other than getting rid of it, I think; though that just might be via userchrome css). If they opened up the tab bar for add-ons to fiddle with, I am sure that a decent tab grouping add-on would come out in minutes.

              I’m apparently an old curmudgeon about tabs being on the top of the screen, so anything that moves the tabs to the sidebar is kind of a nonstarter for me. I think it’s because I like to use my computer with multiple applications open side-by-side (or with a browser open on a vertical monitor), for which vertical tabs would take over too much real estate.

              Anyway, they said they’re working on tab grouping, so hopefully in that process they also give some more capabilities in that realm to add-ons.

              • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 months ago

                Ah, of course. Personaly I like the vertical tabs because of the tree structure and different panels to hide even more.

                By the way, have you tried floorp?

                • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Not yet. Floorp and Midori are on my list to try out, but I just haven’t had a chance to go through the setup and conversion process yet. Maybe someday.

        • umbraroze@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          To me this doesn’t sound like a massive amount of work went into this, it’s just a sidebar that displays a web page.

          Pretty much the same thing happened with Pocket. “Why is Pocket integrated to Firefox?” “Well it’s a project wholly owned by Mozilla. If you don’t like it, you can just remove the button.” “Well I still don’t like it at all - can I remove it entirely to reclaim some of the bloat?” “What bloat? It’s just a button and a few web API calls, disk/memory saving would be negligible.”