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Mozilla Is Building Context Graph, a 'Recommender System For the Web' (venturebeat.com)
Mozilla is looking into ways to build a "better forward button" that helps you understand a topic, and find alternative solutions to a problem. On Wednesday, Firefox-maker announced Context Graph, which in addition also allows browsers to offer useful information without demanding input. From a VentureBeat report: Context Graph is a "recommender system for the web" that is supposed to help the company develop an understanding of browser activity at scale. By tapping into what and how people are browsing, Mozilla hopes to unlock "the next generation of web discovery on the internet." Another example is learning how to do something new, like bike repair. Context Graph should be able to help you learn bike repair based on the links others have navigated to when they attempted to learn the same thing. "This should work regardless of whom you're connected to, because your social network shouldn't be a prerequisite for getting the most from the web," Nick Nguyen, Firefox's vice president of product, said.
The latest beta just sent me to this article so I could get a first post!
ubercookies for the marketers.
Other than tabs, I'm pretty sure I use my web browser almost exactly like I did with Mosaic.
before they try to run. At one time Mozilla ran like the wind, then they just ran, then they walked, now they're crawling. Trying to run from where they are now, directly to "develop an understanding of browser activity at scale", (whatever the hell that means), would seem to be WAY beyond their current capabilities. Especially when their share of the market is dropping to the point where whatever data they might collect may not be enough to be statistically meaningful...
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
By tapping into what and how people are browsing, Mozilla hopes to unlock "the next generation of data harvesting on the internet."
Mozilla Is Building Giant Smelly Poop For the Web
Clippy is back!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
overpaid managers/developers making solutions in search of a problem?
Mozilla is pissing away far too much time 'keeping their browser state of the art' and not enough time 'fixing security issues endemic in their browser since time immemorial.'
If the only other Web 2.0 compatible choices weren't based on either Google's fork of Webkit, or Microsoft rendering engines, I'd tell them to get boned.
That said, maybe some of you code-savvy slashdot nerds can put in some hours on netsurf web browser (netsurf-browser.org) and help get it up to minimal feature parity for the majority of common websites, and then work on adding all the security hooks and privacy features to give us a clean codebase open alternative to Mozilla products. It is getting there, but not fast enough to eclipse the rather shitty (and C++ based) alternatives. And bonus: netsurf can run on hardware with less than 128 megs of ram. (It uses around 48 megs for slashdot last time I tried, although with (slightly!) improper rendering due to CSS, lack of javascript and some other items.) Get it over the hump though and embarassing the current generation of browsers is certainly possible. Nevermind the possibility of auditing the code well enough to close many of the security bugs that seem to keep cropping up in Firefox, Chrome, and company.
Another useless feature and, most importantly, a privacy nightmare by Mozilla, probably the 100th in the last 2 years.There's no "value added" that will ever persuade me sharing my browsing history with you to let you do your unrequested "suggestions".
GO TO HELL, Mozilla.
Time to look for firefox forks.
I hate -*HATE*- having a machine try to read my mind. And a web browser? No, thanks. Just get out of the way & let me do what I want, the way I want.
It needs the devs, and willing to put in the effort (using ansi C!) to both cleanly and efficiently develop the features left to provide full HTML5+JS compatibility.
But it has a far better chance of becoming the secure browser we want (as well as a more efficient browser, at least for single tab/window usage) than anything Mozilla based ever will be.
Give it a try and if you have the chops, give it a patch!
If you get bored with making a proper web browser for your users and start thinking about ways to turn your users into a value-source that you can tap, it's time to STOP. If you still haven't got that, we'll make you understand. Your market share is what right now?
Yet more tracking/data mininig.
Fuck off.
When will Mozilla get the messge that we don't want bloatware in our browsers. I won't be surprised if Firefox gets systemD integration and require Windows 10 in the future.
Another example is learning how to do something new, like bike repair.
Bicycle Repairman is too busy fighting International Communism
In other words, they need a massive database of where people go to from any page and they'll recommend the most popular site. Sounds like an easy database to poison and a great way to put people in jail when they accidentally forward onto a porn site in public. And then there's advertising. Once they get it working, I'll bet you my house that they'll start accepting money to make the forward button go where someone buys it. It'll be sold as 'covering the costs of the feature'. I really hope the button's tool-tip will show the next address, but they won't. You'll have no idea what site you'll land on.
Another reason I don't want it is I actually use the current back and forward buttons. I do go back and then I do go forward. I don't always remember which was the last new address, so I just hit forward until I come to the end. This new feature (you know they'll simply reuse the forward button and will likely not update the UI when it points to a future address nor add a recommended next button) will mean I'll end up loading a page I didn't mean to load. And what is their process for users who move backwards? Maybe I want to move to a future address from a page I've backed to. Will the forward button move to the page I was previously on or will it load a new page? I'd guess they'll try to write a mini AI to decide which to do.
How about they do something more useful like making the Home button go to that site's homepage? How many people actually use the home buttons instead of the address bar or search bar? I just close the existing tab and open a new one. I always remove home buttons from my toolbars since they're so useless. Not that the modified Home button is that much more useful, but since we're tossing in new features instead of improving the core, why not?
Can anyone explain to me what the first link has anything to do with the summary? It's talking about how there's 24,000 different devices accessing the web thus making good compatible sites difficult.
Netscape Navigator had the What's Related button in 2001.
Hey, remember when Mozilla produced a web browser that didn't completely suck donkey balls?
Those were good times. Maybe they should revisit that concept and stop with the ridiculous side projects that nobody cares about except navel-gazing startup scenesters.
In a world, where the majority of people keep googling the same sites regularly, instead of using the URL-bar, browser history or bookmarks; where people spend most of their day on facebook, instagram and other shitty pages where no brainers feel very individual for running with the herd i'd rather browse the web with lynx or wget than let myself be irritated by the idiocy of the masses and my browsing habbits be datamined by a clueless company that managed to ruin what once was a great browser and the only beacon of freedom in a MS-dominated internet.
How about making a browser that is not slow and a memory hog?
This sound something like a pimped out ShiftSpace. BTW, what happend to that?
I thought that was a pretty neat idea - now it appears all traces of ShiftSpace seem to be lost.
Can I still get ShiftSpace somewhere? Is it a distributed thing or does it rely on servers for it's content?
And how is that with this new Mozilla thing?
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca