Dan Gillmor
If Mozilla wants me to stop using Firefox, building "AI" into the browser is a great way to go about it. (Note: I'm still using Firefox...) 18 comments
Artemesia
> How is this possible? It is a better browser than all the others (IMO at least). Are they not promoting it? They must be doing something wrong and AI is not going to help increase usage. How 'bout you look into how the purveyor of the worst operating systems ever became dominant, then get back to us?
Dodo & the Brawn
@MagentaRocks @artemesia I think it's because Apple products come with Safari and Google products come with Chrome. You have to specifically download Firefox. Most people don't. Chrome has also generally been faster. 
Tom
@MagentaRocks @dangillmor I suspect a combination of bundling with OS's and built-in browsers on IoT platforms. Opera used to be the big winner as the lightweight cheap licensed browser for things like consoles, and I doubt that Firefox has made an effort to be lighter with less cumbersome licensing
Erlend
@dangillmor And I used it for a year recently, so don't think I'm just not used to it! (The quality, polish, features, and dev speed of Arc is what they should look at.)
Cristin Pescosolido
as long as I can turn off the bad machine learning and my data doesn't become part of the training data, I'm okay with it hanging out, useless, in the corner of the app.
Matt Griffin
@dangillmor TechCrunch is the only source for this so far. Could be true, could be nonsense. 
Firecat
@mattgriffin @dangillmor I’ll legally will buy a Mac if all firefox forks adopt it. First google and now Firefox, there’s only 3 real alternatives and it’s not even fair. 
Nicole Parsons
"How to turn-off customers in 5 easy steps: Step 1:
Emory L.
@dangillmor @Npars01 i really need to figure out if i can get something like Firefox Tab Containers going in Edge, Arc, or Safari!   |
Gregory's Server
@dangillmor
What I don't understand is this last sentence:
"Firefox's market share is about 3 percent of all browsers, and that number goes down every year."
How is this possible? It is a better browser than all the others (IMO at least). Are they not promoting it? They must be doing something wrong and AI is not going to help increase usage.