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Mozilla Promoting Slop Plagiarism, Thunderbird Report, New Tor Browser, and "Firefox 157 broke my vertical tabs"
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Mozilla ☛ Under the Hood: Prompt tuning Shake to Summarize for recipes [Ed: Mozilla promotes slop plagiarism that, instead of giving originals exposure builds a derivative]
Following the rollout of Firefox’s Shake to Summarize feature to Android devices this May, we wanted to take a closer look at the modeling work behind the feature. In a previous blog post, we discussed our model selection process. Now that Shake to Summarize has been available on both iOS and Android for a few months, we wanted to take it a step further and outline our approach to prompt development. This is the story of a Shake to Summarize use case that required a little extra prompt tuning: online recipes.
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Thunderbird ☛ Thunderbird for iOS: A First Look at the Native iPhone Email App in Development
The team has been working hard behind the scenes laying a strong foundation for the Thunderbird iOS app. Rather than leveraging existing code, we are building natively from scratch. This fresh start allows us to take everything we’ve learned from Thunderbird Desktop and Android to ensure a fast, reliable, and modern experience on your iPhone right from the start.
Our ultimate goal is seamless cross-device experience. Whether you’re sitting at your desktop computer, checking messages on the go, your workflow should feel effortless and unified.
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Tor ☛ New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a13 | The Tor Project
Moreover, Tor Browser Alphas are now based on Firefox's betas. Please read more about this important change in the Future of Tor Browser Alpha blog post.
If you are an at-risk user, require strong anonymity, or just want a reliably-working browser, please stick with the stable release channel.
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Dan Q ☛ Firefox 157 broke my vertical tabs
Only a few weeks ago I was singing the praises of vertical tabs and specifically threw praise at Firefox's implementation, when coupled with Tab Groups (for combining tabs into a collection that can be moved together, folded-away and restored later) and Multi-Account Containers (which allows tabs to have isolated browsing contexts, which is great for privacy and also helps a lot with logging into multiple accounts simultaneously).