Mozilla is looking to deploy its roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support "mission driven" companies and nonprofits, and is particularly focused on AI.
What does Mozilla doubling down on AI and becoming less appealing to core users mean for Firefox forks going forward? How independent of Mozilla are the biggest ones in practice?
There’s a hard fork in the works called Servo. The developers are attempting to hard fork Firefox so that they don’t have to rely on it for updates in the future.
There’s another called Ladybird but there’s controversy surrounding the person fronting it and the fact that they use AI to code it.
What does Mozilla doubling down on AI and becoming less appealing to core users mean for Firefox forks going forward? How independent of Mozilla are the biggest ones in practice?
There’s a hard fork in the works called Servo. The developers are attempting to hard fork Firefox so that they don’t have to rely on it for updates in the future.
There’s another called Ladybird but there’s controversy surrounding the person fronting it and the fact that they use AI to code it.
https://servo.org/
Thanks for the link, hadn’t heard about that project, the list of target features looks very promising