Comment on Inside Project Nova, Firefox's biggest redesign in years

Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Those quotes are nearly incomprehensible and they aren’t isolated incidents either. This CEO talks like every tech CEO selling AI products.

  When you look at the term browser, it’s very antiquated in the sense that there’s static content, and when I click on the content, I get to the next link… With apps, it became more bidirectional. There’s more rich engagement with AI.

  Instead of being a browser, it’s becoming a generative system, but it’s not doing it in a negative way that prevents the person’s incentive from creating the content in the first place.

  CEO sure did say a thing. But it’s [the interviewer’s job to say please explain what you mean” in response.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  can you create more of like a natural language interface that lets people do everything they want?

  I don’t want a ‘natural language interface’ in my browser.

  I want a browser interface in my browser.

  This shit ain’t broke. Don’t fix it.

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  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Based on the rest I think they don’t mean actual natural language interface, but having enough personalisation options to setup the UI in a way that’s natural for your workflow. They are just speaking 2026-corporatise instead of English.

    The full sentence is:

    “Definitely, the idea of extensions and just customizations in general is: can you create more of like a natural language interface that lets people do everything they want?” Varma added. “For example, we announced an update that we’re doing to our design, which is called Project Nova. And a lot of people didn’t like the rounded corners modernization. Now, we can let people pick how round they want their corners. People care, so we put it in the settings.”

    They also mention some misguided “AI” features, but not in this part.

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s a direct follow-up on a question about if you can create widgets on your home-page. At least I think that’s the interviewer asking a question, it could be a weird Trump-like ramble from the CEO as well.

    I didn’t like the previous CEO, particularly given her connections to Airbnb, but this one is undeniably worse.

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• Banzai51@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You have to remember that when Mozilla first formed the goal was to create a mini-OS in the browser with apps and the whole caboodle. With that they then wanted TO DOMINATE THE WORLD!!! But their vision was tricky and taking way longer than expected, so they release Firefox as a temporary band-aid. Firefox went on to be their greatest project while the Mozilla Project burned, fell over in the swap, and was bulldozed into the sea. Over at Mozilla HQ there is still resentment that Firefox is their greatest project. They never gave up on WORLD DOMINATION. It’s like the ego of Marc Andreessen haunts them like a ghost.

  With AI, they see their opportunity for WORLD DOMINATION and are going for it again.

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