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  > Translation?

Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in my PDF viewer and Office viewer as well.

  > Image search?

Sounds like a web site, not a browser feature.

  > Live captions?

Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in VLC as well.

  > Dubbing?

Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in VLC as well.

  > Summary?

Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in my PDF viewer and Office viewer as well.

  > Rewrite text better?

Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in my PDF viewer and Office viewer as well.

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So you're not going to get it until your OS decides to, and if its implementation is poor you're SOL?

Not at all. If you want or need a feature it's not some "my browser has to support it or my OS does" dichotomy.

As a couple parents up stated, there's no technical reason a browser has to have a transformer embedded into it. There might be a business reason like "we made a dumb choice and don't have the manpower to fix it", but I doubt this is something they will accept, at least with a mission statement like they have.

Choose the implementation that you like, or contribute to help make one better. Just like all other software on your computer.

Don't like Libreoffice's implementation of Word support? Install Koffice. I take it you've never installed non-OEM software on your computer?

Why would anyone install Koffice when clearly they would wait for the OS to support Word directly?

I much prefer every individual piece of software and website I interact with implement their own proprietary AI features that compete for my attention and interfer with each other.

The mindset of every browser vendor is that they are the OS now, and all that kernel and userland guff merely supporting infrastructure.

> Sounds like a great OS feature.

Cool, and some DEs make it possible to start implementing this for most applications today. But Mozilla is not KDE or Gnome, so the most they can do is to make this on their software, and make it easy to copy for the entire system.

> Sounds like a web site, not a browser feature.

Sounds like a bit of lack of imagination on your part. Do you think the same for text search?

> But Mozilla is not KDE or Gnome

Exactly. Would be nicer if they did their own features somewhat right (including interfaces for configuration and disabling approachable for non-engineers) before they scope-creep the entire desktop.

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