Both. I use YT on Firefox constantly, and I just explicitly tried again with a swapped user agent, and there’s no issues at all, works perfectly as expected. I saw from your other reply that you use a fairly involved and heavily modifying expansion, not just a user agent switcher.

If you try to “harden” your FF, always keep in mind that a large portion of that means absolutely breaking things left and right and center. It might work, but always expect it will not. Because it’s just not something anybody would ever test for when creating web pages. So you’re running essentially unknown scenarios. It might be interesting input to the extension-author that this breaks, though. It might be something they think they got working. Of course, it could also be that it’s “Yeah that happens, it’s intentional”. But might as well report it to them.

So you don’t use Firefox, you mess with Firefox. That’s on you then. Devs can’t be held responsible for you intentionally breaking things. Only do what you know works.

It works fine?

Yeah, we were also once happy.

And then we started using Jira.

RIP

Uh… what do you think we do when a client doesn’t pay us for a while? We yank their access. That’s how services work, you get a few warnings that you really need to pay or you’ll lose access and then, well, you lose access.

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Well, I can’t judge it for everyone personally of course. And I don’t like AI conceptually. But fucking hell if not every single person is constantly interacting with the common chat LLMs. To the point where they actually use Edge because it has it fully integrated. So from a browser-maker perspective, I kinda get it. The users at large seem to have decided that constantly asking an LLM first is “the future”, much as that sucks.

I still don’t like it personally, but so long as it’s default-off, eh, sure. Do it for all the people who care, which frankly seem to be the overwhelming majority most days.

You don’t even have to turn it off, it’s how people always ask them to do it: It’s opt-in.

Well they’re adding more options for people, that’s exactly what people always want them to spend their time on. More options and user choices, default off, seems they’re doing it exactly what people always want them to do? 🤷

In fact you have to explicitly turn it on, as someone else corrected me already. It’s an optional feature for people who enjoy AI chat in a sidebar akin to Edge or so. For the rest of us, it doesn’t change anything.

Container tabs are baked into the browser? 🤷

But one of the devs replied to the expansion thing in the feedback, and says it would not work well as an expansion. I dunno, can’t judge that, never worked on the FF codebase before.

I mean, let’s not forget this is not “putting AI in the browser”. This is just providing a sidebar option that you the user can put AI into, should you want to!

It gives options to users: Exactly what people always tell Mozilla to do.

Why would I say no to them providing a sidebar option for that?

Tons of people love to engage with LLMs, would be utterly assinine of Mozilla to not do something this benign to make it easier to use stuff?

Plus you can just turn it off or not use it. This is just a convenience of access to existing things, nothing newly built or added or so. All the loud whiners in that connect thread just once again show to Mozilla that they are better off never asking for feedback, since people are utterly unable to provide any in a way that is well-adjusted or more adult than a 6y old. >.>

Firefox needs to stay unbloated, unAI’d, and most importantly sincere to it’s original intents.

[citation needed]

I mean if there’s no ads you can possibly interact with, neither this Firefox system to anonymize ad interactions nor the websites themselves got any interactions to track in any way.

Although do keep in mind that should this actually become a standard, you could end up in a small minority that way and hence again make yourself able to be traced by being more unique.

Of course, if you run an ad blocker it also just doesn’t matter. You could set the setting to “Blurgenfurl”, doesn’t have any impact.

This is smart. As pi is a non-repeating, you can even at some point start showing just the “current” digits if it ever gets too much, and will always be able to find a finite length of digits that does not match a previously user version number.

Personally I have been around longer than him but I used to like his stuff at first.

As I’ve coded more and more on stuff that is built not only on legacy code but specifically legacy code by coders influenced substantially by clean code… damn has this single author given me a headache like nothing else ever has.

The level of inane unmaintainability and complexity achieved by younger coders being encouraged or forced to code “clean” is remarkable.

That’s a requirement of being usable however. It has to be the default.