Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client

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SufficientPie@reddit

Wish they would just focus their limited resources on maintaining a highly-customizable Firefox

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Which is a slowly dying product. Don’t get me wrong, I love and use Firefox but it basically only exists because Google deliberately overpays for search placement so antitrust regulators don’t get spooked by them maintaining the only browser engine on windows (I know it isn’t actually, but from a regulatory standpoint…). What features could you add to Firefox to reverse that? I’m not sure any exist. I see tech-oriented people suggest new tech-oriented features, but Firefox already wins there, I can’t see how winning harder would change anything.

So as Mozilla leadership, you’ve got two options: ride the sinking ship down and pray Google never gets bold enough to play hardball with search sponsorship (which will immediately kill your company) or attempt to diversify, finding a side revenue stream that aligns with your core mission. They’re doing the latter here.

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SufficientPie@reddit

Which is why they should focus on Firefox and returning it to the customizable browser it used to be and stop turning it into a Chrome clone.

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GravitasIsOverrated@reddit

What customization feature would win over users that Firefox doesn’t already have? Firefox is already/still more customizable and more private than Chrome, they’re already winning in that department - yet people don’t switch.

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SufficientPie@reddit

Were you around when Firefox was actually customizable using XUL extensions etc? Not Chrome add-ons

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srona22@reddit

They miss their chance with RockyLLaMa.

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Sabin_Stargem@reddit

They should name it after a critter. We already got a Firefox and a Thunderbird. Probably should be a Snowfish or something, to widen the elemental chart.

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kulchacop@reddit

Airdog?

Lakesnake?

Plasmabear?

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ChocomelP@reddit

Icehorse

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Kahvana@reddit

Lakesnake is a clear winner, take my upvote!

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LUV_2_BEAT_MY_MEAT@reddit

It is wild that with a org with so few offerings two of them are so closely named that they could regularly be misheard as the other one

Mozilla Thunderbolt Mozilla Thunderbird

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H47@reddit

Waterfish

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Radium@reddit

Yeah but thunderbolt fits for all the energy required to run 'em

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Crampappydime@reddit

Agreed, This is actually such a massive miss in branding, wow

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TyGirium@reddit

Also Thunderbolt is a name of a connector type

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MrAHMED42069@reddit

When's the avatar coming

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RoomyRoots@reddit

Sky Fish as an indirect reference to the babel fish.

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PhlarnogularMaqulezi@reddit

Totally agree.

Like, I know alt offshoots of Firefox like Iceraven and Waterfox exist, but I could get behind a Snowsalmon

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Paradigmind@reddit

How about an Earth Angel?

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AurumDaemonHD@reddit

But the question is will it blend(run locally)

" Automate workflows and recurring tasks: Generate daily briefings, monitor topics, compile reports, or trigger actions based on events and schedules"

Okay. Can i trust it with my data?

"- Maintain security with self-hosted deployment, optional end-to-end encryption, and device-level access controls"

Hmm

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ai_hedge_fund@reddit

Here's what is and is not local:
https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbolt/blob/main/docs/architecture.md

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colin_colout@reddit

Huh? It's local unless I'm missing something. I haven't tried yet though.

cd deploy
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up --buildcd deploy
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up --build

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equipmentmobbingthro@reddit

What is the problem if I can self-host the server component?

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ai_hedge_fund@reddit

There is no problem!

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macboller@reddit

boooooooo

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wombweed@reddit

From TFA:

It allows organizations to:
- Run AI with their choice of models, from leading commercial providers to open-source and local models

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AurumDaemonHD@reddit

Yeah i edited my post sry that was sloppy pasting.

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mr_zerolith@reddit

Can't wait to try it, a big problem with this category of software is, it's either:
- free but multiple things are broken or missing ( with few exceptions )
- free but sketchy, privacy wise and/or tries to push you into using commercial models
- paid but won't work with local models

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JamesEvoAI@reddit

Mozilla does more shit nobody asked for in a way that is worse than the existing work instead of putting more engineers on Firefox. More at 11.

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Cool-Chemical-5629@reddit

Currently enterprise only and not fully local yet.

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Waarheid@reddit

I find it funny that the article focuses so much on the Thunderbolt name overloading, presumably from Apple's Thunderbolt connector. You know, the cable. I don't think anyone will mix those up.

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Creepy-Bell-4527@reddit

Thunderbolt is an Intel spec.

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Paradigmind@reddit

I find it kinda uninspired and stupid aswell. Why call everything Thunder, Bolt and Bird?

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Waarheid@reddit

Yea, it is uninspired for sure. They should've done another natural phenomenon + animal combo. I can't come up with any that don't sound dumb though.

"Firefox" works great, "thunderbird" was okay. Water is already taken by waterfox, and I think there's also an iceweasel? Gemma E4B suggested a bunch, "Cometlynx" was not terrible.

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shaolinmaru@reddit

Earthworm (Jim)

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Waarheid@reddit

Lol, that's a good one.

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lakotajames@reddit

Earthferret.

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Ferilox@reddit

i think it was because of the thunder*. mozilla already had thunderbird

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Waarheid@reddit

Oh. Yeah, that is a good point. RIP.

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thatphotoguy89@reddit

I cannot find any information about Mozilla Thunderbolt except the suspicious link in the linked article. I’m going to guess this is a made-up article

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Xamanthas@reddit

You shouldn’t be on the net sonny, let grandpa here continue using it

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HopePupal@reddit

clicked a few links, the absence of news from Mozilla's socials was weird, but code for Thunderbolt is under https://github.com/Thunderbird/thunderbolt which is part of the verified Mozilla Thunderbird org. chalking this one up to Moz being sloppy rather than a scam

fucking awful name though, going to make a bunch of Mac users mad

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What the fuck is Mozilla doing?

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