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Don't get me wrong, I think what Mozilla did is absolutely stupid. But unless it's spying on you as you browse or whatever, how is this a problem? From what I see here in Developer Edition, it just iframes the chat window and docks it in a sidebar. It's just bloat for people who don't use it, or turn it off, and an upgrade for people who will use it.
My only problem with it is that this kind of stuff should be an add-on.
I haven't looked into the chatbot thingy at all yet, but if it meets basic quality standards (local LLM, not too large in size, actually helpful), then personally, I do actually think that it should be included by default, because it'll primarily help out the kind of users who don't know to install add-ons.
Like, people had the same complaint with the translation feature they included, and I'm just seeing my dad who doesn't speak English, who would never hear of such an add-on, where this just opens up a big chunk of the web to him.
Its functionality to integrate with whatever LLM you use - local or SAAS. I can't say I'm excited about the feature, but I think it's also a bit silly that people are angry about it (though I take the point about development priority).
It's healthy for Firefox's market share to keep feature parity with Edge and other browsers that have the same function but with a manufacturer-pushed service.
Wait, it'll actually let you use local LLMs?
That would legitimately help me out. I use LLMs a lot for simple data restructuring, or rewording of explanations when I'm reading through certain sources. I was worried they would just do a simple ChatGPT API integration and have that be the end of it, but maybe this will end up being something I'd actually use.