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Running Inference In Web Extensions (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/firefox

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We’re shipping a new API in Firefox Nightly that will let you use our Firefox AI runtime to run offline machine learning tasks in your web extension.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's actually pretty cool, it could allow for an extension to locally hide certain types of content without using a full on blocklist. It could detect homophobic sentences and block that content for example. Or a more intelligent ad blocker that blocks sponsor messages and links. Could be used to detect SEO garbage websites from common patterns and hide them from search results. I see many useful use cases for this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Times I would use that: 0

Times I have wished FF desktop supported "installing" apps as PWAs: Infinity and beyond

Jeez, Mozilla, I really want to like you and donate, but your priorities are effed up.

[–] donio 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For me it's 0 for both. Even on mobile where PWAs are supported I block PWA manifests in uBo since FF thinks that I am too dumb to handle having both "add to home screen" and "install" in the menu at the same time.

But we all have different preferences, I am sure there are some users who will enjoy the new feature.