Tim Chase @gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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well today's is a bit bittersweet.

Back at the beginning of the month, I plotted all the projects on my remind(1) calendar, grouping various categories together. Two days ago, lynx¹, yesterday was Dillo², and today it was supposed to be . Yet this week has been full of sad Firefox news, with them ignoring users' desires to keep AI rubbish out of the browser (or at least relegated to an optional plugin)

The browser that I started using as Netscape, grew to be Communicator, that kinda became Phoenix, then shed the non-browser functions off to Thunderbird (already got mentioned³) and became Firefox. Despite the rise of Chromium/Chrome, I still use Firefox as my daily driver web-browser for the modern web (rather than the *pleasant* web where lynx & Dillo serve me much better).

What used to be a "User Agent" has become something that no longer puts the *user* first. 😢

So in this time of wishes and gifts, I wish that the Firefox leadership team would take a strong look at what they're doing and change their course.

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¹ mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/1157
² mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/1157
³ mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/1156

A kid on Santa's lap asks, "For Christmas I want a dragon!" Santa replies they should "Be realistic." The kid then now asks, "I want Mozilla to reverse its course on AI!" to which Santa pulls out a writing implement and parchment to take notes, asking "What color do you want your dragon?"
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