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Profile management - sweet, profiles in Firefox has allways been annoying in my experience.
AI features - No, please no. I know it says local but when reading this quote from the article I wonder:
We’re looking at how we can use local, on-device AI models – i.e., more private – to enhance your browsing experience further. One feature we’re starting with next quarter is AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs, which makes it more accessible to visually impaired users and people with learning disabilities. The alt text is then processed on your device and saved locally instead of cloud services, ensuring that enhancements like these are done with your privacy in mind.
First of all, fantastic work making the web more accessible to visually impaired users.
But I am wondering about one thing here…
…AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs, which makes it more accessible to visually impaired users and people with learning disabilities. The alt text is then processed on your device…
So to use this feature, Mozilla will process severy image you see on the internet and then create an AI generated alt text on their servers, and post processing is done on your computer.
That’s somewhat awkward phrasing but I think the visual processing will also be done on-device. There are a few small multimodal models out there. Mozilla’s llamafile project includes multimodal support, so you can query a language model about the contents of an image.
Even just a few months ago I would have thought this was not viable, but the newer models are game-changingly good at very small sizes. Small enough to run on any decent laptop or even a phone.
It’s local. You’re not sending data to their servers.
We’re looking at how we can use local, on-device AI models – i.e., more private – to enhance your browsing experience further. One feature we’re starting with next quarter is AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs, which makes it more accessible to visually impaired users and people with learning disabilities. The alt text is then processed on your device and saved locally instead of cloud services, ensuring that enhancements like these are done with your privacy in mind.
Tab grouping - eh, cool I guess.
Vertical tabs - eh, good for those who want it.
Profile management - sweet, profiles in Firefox has allways been annoying in my experience.
AI features - No, please no. I know it says local but when reading this quote from the article I wonder:
First of all, fantastic work making the web more accessible to visually impaired users.
But I am wondering about one thing here…
So to use this feature, Mozilla will process severy image you see on the internet and then create an AI generated alt text on their servers, and post processing is done on your computer.
This sounds like a horrible privacy nightmare…
That’s somewhat awkward phrasing but I think the visual processing will also be done on-device. There are a few small multimodal models out there. Mozilla’s llamafile project includes multimodal support, so you can query a language model about the contents of an image.
Even just a few months ago I would have thought this was not viable, but the newer models are game-changingly good at very small sizes. Small enough to run on any decent laptop or even a phone.
It’s local. You’re not sending data to their servers.
At least use the whole quote.
yeah, of course its gonna look like its not local if you take out the part where it says its local