Context aware search, summarizing in side view or importing an agent directly from a repository into your browser are things that come to mind without much thinking, and i am not a developer.
If both noteworthy browser engines are made by companies who make decisions against their user's interest I might as well switch to the one with higher development budget.
The majority wants something that works with everything they throw at it out of the box without rummaging through settings.
And where does AI come into play here? It's not like a browser without AI doesn't work.
This is a balancing act and Mozilla behaves like an elefant in a porcelain shop right now. Worst case they loose their current users without attracting new ones.
existing users will bitch and moan even if it's just one click
I'm one of them. Why not make it one click for people who want it instead?
The idea behind anubis is that a browser needs to deliver proof-of-work before accessing a website.
If you're doing it one-off with puppeteer, your "browser" will happily do just that.
But if you're scraping millions of websites, short challenges like this add up quickly and you'll end up wasting lots of compute on them. As long as scrapers decide that those websites are not worth it anubis works.
Someone who doesn't know what that word means maybe.