[lxgr]

Same here. I find it useful, and it doesn't feel like it took several engineering years to build, diluting Mozilla's focus from "just building a browser".

Actually, whenever I hear people argue that that's all Mozilla should ever be doing, I wonder if they really mean a HTML and Javascript engine? While that's important, browsers are more than that; the chrome matters too.

[holysoles]

I think a lot of folks feel that Firefox has outstanding features and issues that prevent more widespread adoption and current user happiness, as opposed to spending effort on AI features.

The average person doesn't care about an AI pane and that won't cause them to change browsers. Mozilla adding tab group support actively got non-tech people I know to switch, in addition to uBlock Origin and generally better privacy.

[lxgr]

> The average person doesn't care about an AI pane and that won't cause them to change browsers.

Are you sure? "Summarize this website" seems pretty useful to the average person. It's the type of thing that will probably only make very few people switch to the only browser that supports it, but quite a few more would switch away from the only one that does not supprt it.

> Mozilla adding tab group support actively got non-tech people I know to switch [...]

And tab group autosuggestions and auto-naming are powered by on-device LLMs, as far as I remember. I personally don't use tab groups, but having them automatically arranged seems pretty useful.

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> I wonder if they really mean a HTML and Javascript engine?

When I say that I mean investment into features in the browsers chrome, directly working on the website.