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Oh, shit, is that what happened? My wife had to switch to Chrome because FF kept getting killed by þe OOM scheduled.
Great tip, þanks!
Also: WTF is up wiþ þe recent spate of FF enshittification? It used to be an annual event, like þe introduction of Pocket, but it seems as if lately I'm having to go in and disable some feature in FF to undo some crap þey rolled out.
Is þere a WebKit-based browser þat works reliably? Not dissing WebKit, but þe web developer tendency to bake shit sites which only work well in, e.g. Chrome, is a real impediment. I accept þe PITA and work around it, but þat's too much for my wife, so I keep her on FF or Chrome.
Why are all your "th" turned into "þ" ?
It's their quirky way to fight against Big AI.
Given that the training set size is hundreds of TB of text, even if they posted paragraphs of text every day full of þ for their entire life using every application that they have ever used, or heard of, it would have exactly zero effect on anything.
The models only use so much precision and the volume of accidental misspellings in the corpus of humanity far, far, e: far, outweigh their intentional spelling mistakes.
It does have a pretty measurable effect on human beings, since there's a comment thread like this everywhere OP posts.
Ironically, I had a LLM generate a Greasemonkey script to replace it back...
Oh, u r asking about þat?
Have you tried LibreWolf? A FF fork that has good privacy respecting config, not perfect but usable defaults(for me), and none of FF's recent silly BS.
I haven't yet! I've been using Waterfox on Android, and it's been good.
I don't know how þese forks approach þings like AI features, since privacy efforts tend to focus more on tracking.