36 pointsby HieronymusBosch5 hours ago3 comments
  • Diti2 hours ago
    I hope to see the day when (or if) the LLMs get so good at spotting and fixing bugs that all that’s left for the Firefox engineers to do is to focus on adding new features.

    This isn’t sarcasm. Firefox deserves to be used more. Most people I know don’t use it because “Chrome does almost everything better”, and Firefox can’t compete with the other browsers’ roadmaps.

    • nubinetwork24 minutes ago
      > Firefox deserves to be used more

      Part of the problem is, when they stop working on fixing bugs, they start doing Mr Robot things... We just want a web browser. Nobody asked for pocket, or AI...

      If they use AI to fix all the bugs, then what else is for them to do, other than maintain syntax compatibility with the various languages they build with? They're just going to go back to making the browser trash again.

    • greggoBan hour ago
      > Firefox deserves to be used more

      Totally agree. I even go as far as choosing which website I make purchases on depending if they work on FF, or writing to support occasionally to tell them it's not supported or a feature isn't working properly and this would be appreciated.

      I know it pretty much always goes nowhere, but I feel it's what I can do to keep the browser somehow on the radar.

  • xackyan hour ago
    I just hope they don't start ignoring human created bug reports, as there are still many that haven't been fixed for years.
  • ChrisArchitect2 hours ago
    Related:

    The zero-days are numbered

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853277