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Vielleicht weiß hier jemand eine vernünftige Lösung: #Firefox unter #Ubuntu 24.04 will nicht drucken. Installiert ist es über #snap - möchte es nicht ändern da das Problem eher grundlegender ist ( hier schon mehrere Rechner) #Chromium will nur pdf drucken. Bei anderen Programmen, die über snap installiert sind, funktioniert es.
Das "Vorschau wird vorbereitet" führt nach langer langer Zeit zum Absturz...
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Firefox - Vorschau wird vorbereitet
Yes, it's what I've been using for the past few months.
My only negatives with it is the fact that they block the captive portal detection, and you have to turn off some of the more extreme security settings in order to get a lot of websites to work.
Otherwise, they're both very good #Firefox forks.
Firefox bekommt Maskottchen Kit und kostenloses VPN
Mozilla gibt Firefox ein handgezeichnetes Maskottchen namens Kit. Zudem bringt Version 149 ein integriertes VPN und Split View.
https://linuxiac.com/free-vpn-and-split-view-are-coming-to-mozilla-firefox/
A built-in free VPN and Split View mode are coming to Firefox
Supposedly the VPN will offer 50GB a month of data for free, and keep in mind the VPN protects the browser only, it works inside of Firefox.
I'm pretty weirded out by the fact that #Firefox is building in a new #VPN service in the next version, but there is no reference to it in Firefox Nightly.
This reminds me of Looking Glass - and not in a good way. I realize this is not a study, but my recollection of that event was Mozilla management skipped the train release process to insert code directly into release.
VPN isn't enabled in Nightly today -- I haven't tried beta, but I doubt it is there.
Very weird stuff.
In Browser-Debatten begegnen einem oft sehr unterschiedliche Perspektiven: Manche priorisieren vor allem maximale Sicherheit, andere konsequenten Datenschutz, wieder andere vor allem die moralische Bewertung des Anbieters. Auf dem Kuketz-Blog geht es bewusst um etwas anderes: Einen nachvollziehbaren Mittelweg aus Datenschutz, Sicherheit und Alltagstauglichkeit. Nicht das eine Extrem, sondern eine ehrliche Abwägung soll am Ende zu sinnvollen Empfehlungen führen. 👇
@Linuxkumpel@social.tchncs.de @nik @Linuxkumpel@vivaldi.net @kuketzblog
Ich möchte hier auf Floccus von @marcelklehr hinweisen.
Floccus synchronisiert Lesezeichen über Anwendungs- und Betriebssystemgrenzen hinweg und steht als Erweiterung für die meisten Browser zur Verfügung.
Praktisch, wenn man sich mal wieder nicht für einen bestimmten Browser entscheiden kann…
#firefox #chrome #vivaldi #brave #edge #opera #orion #browser #cloud #nextcloud #googledrive #dropbox #webdav #git #github
Firefox oder Brave? Wir erklären, welche Kriterien zählen, warum beide empfehlenswert sind und weshalb Browser wie Chrome und Edge für uns ausscheiden. 👇
"Not a Firefox Fork! Kagi's Orion Browser Arrives on Linux as a Public Beta"
"The Flatpak-only build brings basic browsing but extensions and Kagi Sync aren't ready yet."
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17300329/orion-browser-linux-beta-release
Firefox oder Brave? Wir erklären, welche Kriterien zählen, warum beide empfehlenswert sind und weshalb Browser wie Chrome und Edge für uns ausscheiden. 👇
你吐槽Chrome应用商店的Claude.ai插件无法在Arc、Vivaldi运行，并且给1、2Star可以，毕竟都是Chromium内核。
但是这个人怎么吐槽Firefox不能运行这个插件？这和去Apple官网给自己的Android手机找售后有什么区别，Linux用户也可以使用Chrome，去Chrome 商店发评论，开发者也管不了 Firefox 的适配问题啊，哭错坟了（
还有没有Claude.ai订阅的用户不要去试了（
#chromewebstore #chrome #google #extension #plugin #firefox #claude
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"New Firefox logo coming? Mozilla’s socials suggest so…"
"Some (not exactly subtle) changes on Firefox’s official social media accounts indicate that the browser is about to get a new logo – or a reputation for attention seeking."
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/is-firefox-about-to-get-a-new-logo
Mozilla is NOT SELLING your DATA! (But they did mess up…) - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDpKx-wvD_0
"FOSS Weekly #26.11: SUSE for Sale, Firefox Redesign, New-ish Terminal, i3 Customization and More"
""For sale" sign has been raised for SUSE Linux."
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17298788/foss-weekly-26-11
I think I've found a font rendering bug in #Firefox (and possibly Safari).
On the National Theatre website, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́'s name doesn't embolden characters with diacritical marks.
As far as I can see, the included Web Font contains é (U+00E9) and both ́ (U+0301) & ̣ (U+0323).
But doesn't include ẹ (U+1EB9) or ọ (U+1ECD).
Any thoughts on what's causing this and whether it is worth reporting?
URl: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/artists/ronke-adekoluejo/
Font: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/themes/childtheme/assets/fonts/5760911/470ca328-5bc8-43ae-b713-6fb2efeea277.woff2
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Screenshot of a website. Contains a phone of a black woman next to her name. Any characters with accents in her name are rendered without boldface.
Wow, "open to brand messages" that's why I'm running #firefox, they sure got me figured out!
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Screenshot of a LinkedIn post from Mozilla Ads
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1. Reach users the moment they start browsing
2. Stand out in a lower-saturated ad environment
3. Connect with audiences open to brand messages
When Mozilla released Firefox 148.0 with the "AI kill switch", I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and give it a try. It worked...for a while. With the 148.0.2 update, however, the kill switch was disabled and a lot of my settings had changed. That's it. That's the one chance I was going to give them but Firefox, once again, has been removed from all of my hardware. I can no longer trust Mozilla to do the right thing. I am officially done.
Es gibt Entscheidungen, die man trifft, weil man keine andere Wahl mehr sieht. Und es gibt Entscheidungen, die man trifft, weil man endlich klar genug hingeschaut hat, um die Konsequenzen zu ziehen. Der Abschied von Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram und WhatsApp war für mich beides.
https://www.christin-loehner.de/soziale-medien
#DiDay #DigitaleSouveränität #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #Privacy #Datenschutz #BigTech #FuckBigTech #DeGoogle #BoycottAmazon #BoycottGoogle #BoycottMicrosoft #KaufLokal #Widerstand #DigitalResistance #FairTech #RightToRepair #Signal #Mastodon #Nextcloud #Firefox #BraveBrowser #SelfHosted #Cybersecurity
Вот что за дела? Был же аддон, который при клике по текущей вкладке переключался на предыдущую. Как Ctrl+Tab, только мышкой. А сейчас ни в установленных, ни в отключенны, и даже на сайте найти не могу 😕
Невелика беда, но куда делся-то? 🤔
I have yet to see a legitimate browser extension that interacts with LLMs / AI platform.
Most, if not all, steal user inputs and LLM responses; install malware.
@chesheer Huh, these "strong curves" reminds me a Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard UI… https://512pixels.net/projects/aqua-screenshot-library/mac-os-x-10-5-leopard/
Why #Mozilla uses design from this OS in the #Firefox for other OSes — it is very interesting . Looks like the design team run out of ideas and just constantly reinventing the wheel just to show some "progress" and some activity for big bosses?
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/exploit/
#LLM
"Anthropic says it found a heap of Firefox security flaws using new Claude tools, says 'AI is making it possible to detect severe security vulnerabilities at highly accelerated speeds'"
"Claude finds 14 high-severity Firefox bugs in just a few weeks, rivaling what Mozilla could do in months."
#UnplugBigTech Teil 3. ⚠️
Umstieg auf Firefox inkl. Feintuning. Startpage als Suche, Telemetrie abschalten – weniger Datenabfluss im Alltag. 👇
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/unplugbigtech-schluss-mit-chrome-edge-teil-3/
#browser #firefox #diday #datenschutz #bigtech #privacy #mozilla
Sadly, the new design^Wabomination from #Mozilla landed to the new release of #IronFox (148.0.1) on the Android
Instead of damn simple and concise main menu, I forced to see a gigantic panel now. Like I don't have fingers — I have a ten sausages instead.
And rounded things, rounded things everywhere! Because this is a redesign in sake of redesign — it is not customizable and I can't switch back to rectangular things in the settings
Luckily, at least for now, I'm still able to revert this shitty designer vomit. Because you know, I'm not so young dragon, so I remember the eons when it was valuable — do not break user habits by constantly changing the UI layout and UI elements (read the fucking Palm Design Guidelines, for example).
The recipe:
1) Go to: IronFox main menu — Settings — About IronFox
2) Tap a lot of times to the big IronFox logo. The text "Debug menu enabled" should appear on the screen for a few seconds
3) Go to: IronFox main menu — Settings — Secret Settings
4) Disable the next items: "Enable Menu Redesign", "Enable Composable Toolbar"
Done! You are free from "new UI", which forcefeeded to users of Firefox (and forks) by Mozilla (again)
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Screenshot of mobile Firefox — top part of the window. The main toolbar now has a rounded input textbox and an additional plus button at the right, eating the precious screen space.
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Screenshot of the new main menu of mobile Firefox. It takes near all the screen now and has an enormously big and rounded menu items and buttons.
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The screenshot of "Secret settings" menu in mobile Firefox. Some items are highlighted by big red rectangle and disabled.
Disabled items: "Enable menu redesign" and "Enable composable toolbar".
There some other options but they are inactive and disabled too, since they are depndent on the mentioned two options.
Die zerbrechlichen Ketten der Bequemlichkeit
Ein Plädoyer für die digitale Emanzipation Europas
Wir haben unsere digitale Freiheit gegen Komfort eingetauscht. Microsoft, Amazon, Google und Meta bestimmen, wie wir kommunizieren, arbeiten und denken. Der CrowdStrike-Schock war kein Unglück, er war eine Ansage. Es ist Zeit, die Ketten zu sprengen. Ein Plädoyer für die digitale Emanzipation Europas. [Mehr lesen...]
https://www.christin-loehner.de/blog/die-zerbrechlichen-ketten-der-bequemlichkeit
#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FreieSoftware #Datenschutz #Privacy #BigTech #FuckBigTech #DeGoogle #DeleteGoogle #DeleteFacebook #BoycottAmazon #BoycottMicrosoft #BoycottApple #Überwachungskapitalismus #SurveillanceCapitalism #Fediverse #Mastodon #Dezentralisierung #Decentralization #PublicMoneyPublicCode #ÖffentlichesGeld #RightToRepair #Fairphone #Framework #SelfHosted #Nextcloud #Signal #Tor #VPN #CrowdStrike #CloudAct #DSGVO #GDPR #Hetzner #EuropeFirst #TechSovereignty #DigitalRights #DigitaleRechte #Netzpolitik #CCC #ChaosComputerClub #ByeByeElon #QuitX #LeaveX #SaveSocial #Ecosia #Startpage #uBlockOrigin #LibreWolf #Firefox #FediTips #EuropäischeWerte #EuropeanValues #TechEthics #Nachhaltigkeit #Sustainability #GeplantéObsoleszenz #PlannedObsolescence #KaufLokal #LocalFirst #Widerstand #DigitalResistance #PolitischeTech #TechForGood #KI #AI #OpenSourceAI #ZenDiS #PublicCode #Libre #GNU #Debian #Fedora #PopOS #ZorinOS #NixOS #AntiColonialism #DigitalerKolonialismus #Cloudflare #AWS #AzureAlternative #EUTech #MadeInEurope
A couple weeks ago I was really struggling with anxiety and when I realized my online habits were feeding it, I went looking for support to modify those habits.
I wound up installing an extension called "wisely delayed". It lets you put a nag screen with configurable delay, message, and link in front of a list of sites. I set a 20s delay on couple sites that I identified as being harmful with the message "Check in with yourself. Are you feeling anxious?" and a link to a poetry site instead.
That little nudge towards mindfulness has really helped.
So, I'm trying #LibreWolf. Installed via packed on #Debian sid. This is done through something I didn't even knew existed: `extrepo`. There's a lot of 3rd party software there, I didn't even had the time to look at it all: https://salsa.debian.org/extrepo-team/extrepo-data/-/tree/master/repos/debian
At first launch nothing out of the ordinary happened. A normal #Firefox like window appeared. Except for two things:
* #DuckDuckGo is the default search engine
* #uBlockOrigin is already installed.
So far so good.
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Hey #Firefox friends. Is there any way to improve TTS on #Linux?
Currently it calls the default eSpeak-NG voices which are robotic and quite difficult to listen to.
Is there any way to hook the JS SpeechSynthesisUtterance to something modern like Piper?
I don't want to rely on a web service like Chrome does. I want to use the local voice models on my machine.
Anyone know if that's possible?
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@NetscapeNavigator/116172810703662019
Firefox has one job left. It’s the same last job that Internet Explorer once had.
It’s time to download a better browser!
My good friend had a lot of ideas and projects, but nothing released to the public. Until now. A #firefox extension to navigate a web page using just a keyboard: https://addons.mozilla.org/uk/android/addon/blinkbrowse/
This is a follow-up post on the sad state of Mozilla
First, notice the date of the commit identified (as highlighted in a few posts below that toot referenced above).
Secondly, Mozilla has done further changes to their Privacy policy since this initial change. I am not fully convinced about them - since the Privacy FAQ at the same time is not aligned. The reason for my continued mistrust to Mozilla is that they have gradually, over many years, moved in a direction I do find privacy unfriendly. And they have ties/agreements/contracts/partnerships to companies who does not have a good track record on privacy topics. I generally trust people and organisations actions more than their words of what they want to do.
Thirdly, it should be fairly clear to most that AI/LLM is not preserving privacy well when data is sent to a remote server to be processed there. And even running parts of the LLM engines locally does not fully disentangle the privacy aspects fully - data is still being exchanged with a remote server (otherwise there would not need to be "AI service provider URLs" in about:cofig). Mozilla did force AI/LLM unto users, enabled by default with the only way to disable that in the beginning via about:config. And it took several releases before more user friendly approaches to disable it arrived. Due to this delay, I really wonder "does these new knobs really fully disable AI/LLM?". I have that doubt, because of how Mozilla has behaved over many years.
On top of this, the Mozilla leadership is extremely well paid while they have reduced their engineering teams working on Firefox and other products. That is a too strong indication for me to ignore, that profit and leadership compensation seem to be way more important than the core mission of making Internet a better place.
I have little trust in Mozilla for the time being. And I doubt I'm alone, due to the traction this toot thread triggered. Currently, I believe trust can be built up again. But it will take a lot of efforts now to repair what has been broken. For that to improve for me, I will need to see a lot of actions from Mozilla, where they clearly does changes in the whole organisation and communicates them clearly and that the communication is aligned across all aspects - including policy documents, FAQs, source code. Until that happens, I will use some of the Firefox forks. And leadership compensation need to be completely transparent and come down to a level which is not in an astronomic level comparable to large for-profit enterprise companies who generally cares little for anything than their own egoistic wealth.
If a person taking a leadership role in an organisation claiming working for a better Internet and fighting for its users is getting uninteresting unless there is a million dollar yearly compensation when the people doing the grunt work, delivering code resulting in a real product, has a 5th or 10th of that compensation, then I do question the values this person holds. And I will especially highly question the leadership when they need to reduce cost and choses to cut among the engineers doing the grunt work while the leadership not considering their own compensation.
So basically, I find the Mozilla organisation fairly rotten currently. It preaches the nice words but ends up doing something completely different.
Not a Fan of Firefox? Orion Might Save You
Will this be the thing that causes the Firefox stranglehold to lift on the Linux side? Will it make inroads on Windows and MacOS, too? We sure hope so. And maybe Gnome Web can steal a thing or two :)
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Y'know what? I don't think I ever swapped the hard drive on this #FreeBSD #laptop for an #ssd. I think it's still the 13 year old 5,400 RPM drive. Whoops.
Pretty sure that explains why it feels slower than molasses dripping down a freezer wall.
I mean, 16GB of RAM and a quad core i7 is still pretty good for a laptop running nothing but #openbox and #Firefox - though that has become quite the resource hog. 🤔
Firefox's AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem
"Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything.
If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink…"
#mozilla #firefox #tech #technology #info #BigTech #browser #internet #safety #security #InfoSec #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Fuck_AI
#Mozilla released #Firefox 148 featuring the #AI "Kill Switch" that has been making the rounds.
The design of the switch is meant to absolve Mozilla of any responsibility for your use of its AI.
It is a trap.
It is meant to switch discussion from whether Mozilla should be doing AI, to whether you can *choose* to not use it.
Don't believe their lies.
This is a long post, and if you click through, I recorded a video: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html
Hope you enjoy and please boost if you enjoyed it!
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@dalias #Firefox seems to have taken a turn towards the dark side (#aislop) and it is not clear whether the money supporting them (read as Google) is driving its new direction [into oblivion?]. Projects like #librewolf and #arkenfox are doing good work but the base is souring.
Das Einstellungs Untermenü für AI/KI ist in FF 148 verfügbar🙂
So sieht's in der Default Einstellung aus.
...compared to the fact that they kill all my sessions by a forced fucking restart when I try to act responsibly and update.
That's fucking outrageous!
So, this is “the” AI killswitch in #Firefox 148, I guess? (It’s a single “checkbox” in the UI.)
user_pref("browser.ai.control.default", "blocked");
user_pref("browser.ai.control.linkPreviewKeyPoints", "blocked");
user_pref("browser.ai.control.pdfjsAltText", "blocked");
user_pref("browser.ai.control.sidebarChatbot", "blocked");
user_pref("browser.ai.control.smartTabGroups", "blocked");
user_pref("browser.ai.control.translations", "blocked");
user_pref("browser.translations.enable", false);
user_pref("pdfjs.enableAltText", false);
Dunno if some of these can be omitted.
Hello Mint Users. If you've been waiting for the Firefox release that allows you to turn off the AI features, it's here. Update your software through your distro sources.
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"Block AI enhancements?" A Firefox dialog box informs the user that by blocking certain AI features, you will lose translations, ALT text in PDF viewer, tab group suggestions, key points in link previews, chatbots.
#Mozilla has lost their ground and is now in a free fall into a sinkhole. I doubt they'll ever get out if this again unless they do a 180-turn within the coming days. Mozilla has lost a lot of trust and credibility over the last couple of years. This accelerates that distrust even more.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/
It looks promising, until you hit the last paragraph (my highlight)
In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our privacy notice. Whenever we share data with our partners, we put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share is stripped of potentially identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).
In my book, that's indirectly selling data.
Goodbye, #Firefox.
The worst bugs are the ones that remove features because you're left wondering was this intentional? Do they hate users?
For example @firefoxwebdevs 148 changed the PDF viewer and now one can not longer expand or collapse PDF table of contents bookmarks.
Der Digitale Exitus: Warum Europa jetzt die Ketten sprengen muss
Ein Manifest für die Souveränität
Wir stehen am Abgrund einer technologischen Leibeigenschaft. Während wir uns einbilden, in einer freien Demokratie zu leben, haben wir die Schlüssel zu unserem Haus, unseren Gedanken und unserer Wirtschaft längst an eine Handvoll Milliardäre im Silicon Valley übergeben. Wir sind keine Nutzer mehr. Wir sind Datensätze. Wir sind digitale Leibeigene in einem feudalen System, das keine Grenzen kennt und keine Moral. Es ist Zeit, die rosarote Brille abzusetzen. Es ist Zeit, das Betriebssystem unserer Gesellschaft neu zu installieren. [Mehr lesen...]
https://www.christin-loehner.de/blog/der-digitale-exitus-warum-europa-jetzt-die-ketten-sprengen-muss
#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #Privacy #Datenschutz #BigTech #FuckBigTech #DeGoogle #BoycottAmazon #BoycottGoogle #BoycottMicrosoft #Europa #Europe #LocalFirst #KaufLokal #Widerstand #DigitalResistance #FairTech #RightToRepair #Signal #Mastodon #Nextcloud #Firefox #BraveBrowser #Sustainability #SelfHosted #TechFreedom #Cybersecurity
How to turn off #AI features in #Firefox, or choose the ones you want
violence [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Firefox 148 released with AI kill switch + more
The Firefox 148 update sees its stable release today, bringing with it a much-request ’AI kill switch’ to easily disable all AI-powered features within
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/s...
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/firefox-148-released-ai-kill-switch#ai-ml #app-updates #firefox #mozilla
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Firefox 149 showing the about dialog and topic-based new tab page.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@S1m/116127178349448562
Dear Mozilla,
Please do more of THIS kind of Firefox improvements, and less wasting time on AI features that very few, if any, are asking for.
Thanks,
A very long-time Firefox user
"Firefox 148 rolls out with the promised AI kill switch: here's how to enable it"
"The "Block AI Enhancements" toggle was originally introduced in Firefox 148 Nightly in January following significant community backlash after Mozilla's new CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, announced plans to add AI features to Firefox."
https://www.techspot.com/news/111453-firefox-148-rolls-out-promised-ai-kill-switch.html
#Firefox 148 Is Now Available for Download with #AI Kill Switch and Other Changes
#Mozilla #Firefox148 adds new settings for AI controls within Firefox's settings area for individually manipulating the AI features available in Firefox. This includes the AI "kill switch" for blocking all new or current AI enhancements in Firefox.
https://9to5linux.com/firefox-148-is-now-available-for-download-with-ai-kill-switch-and-other-changes
I mean I would rather they weren't baking it into the browser, but at least I can #optout (for now)
A reminder for #Firefox fans! Firefox 148 ships on 24 February (in 1 day).
This newest release brings us the #AI "kill switch" that has been promised. I've been testing it both in the Beta and Nightly releases of Firefox. From what I've seen so far, it does what it says.
However, only time will tell if user preferences are preserved across updates and upgrades. In the past that has not been the case for many people.
#Mozilla #Firefox #privacy #browser #AI #killswitch
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Ye Olde and Venerable Firefox Logo
Thunderbird next?
Based upon the track record of Mozilla it's just a question of time before the programmers find a way of integrating large language model slop into the beautiful and elegant Thunderbird
Look closely; every time Mozilla is begging for money when you start up Thunderbird after 2 or 3 days of not having used it. It's annoying I haven't looked for a way to turn it off I stopped being annoyed about it after having faced it for sixteen times
This happens cross platform which means it is baked and hard coded into Thunderbird
#LLM #generated #Slop #AI #Mozilla #Firefox #OpenSource #configuration #technology #programming #Google #Alphabet
Up to now, with all LLM things that Mozilla has done, you can just turn them off. I just shrug and turn them off
How is it in this case?
Can you turn this feature off, if so where?
You do realize that because Google literally funds Mozilla, they will keep doing these bad things, opting in users without permission
Maybe you should not use anything that the Mozilla makes anymore, otherwise you will just be annoyed and disappointed Time after Time. The Mozilla team is literally choked by Google, financially choked.
Wishing for their destruction is deeply emotional
These annoyances disappointments & irritations are not good for your health, my internet friend.
IMHO you should leave all Mozilla products behind, then be in Peace again.
Sending you
🦋💙❤️💋 #UniversalLove 💙💕🌹💐💙🦋
#LLM #generated #Slop #AI #advertisment #Mozilla #Firefox #OpenSource #configuration #technology #programming #Google #Alphabet
Well, this is forking intolerable.
#Firefox is officially #enshittified.
It turned on the horrid "sponsored shortcuts" and "sponsored stories" without me asking.
Those stories are the last dadgum thing I ever want to see. I don't want more news about USFASH.
Smeg #Mozilla. I hope Google bumps them off the money-nipple and they crash and burn.
I'm going to try #WaterFox and #LibreWolf again.
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The firefox new tab page on my sway desktop showing ads and news articles instead of a clean, blank page.
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The firefox preferences page where the "Sponsored shortcuts" and "Sponsored stories" settings somehow turned themselves on
@rl_dane #Mozilla #Firefox has been doing this for *years*. Like, for the past several #Debian releases too - and that distro uses the ESR version. It's disappointing to see Firefox enabling this crap by default on both the mainstream and ESR version.
You can turn this off in the settings, however, I wish this setting were opt-in rather than opt-out.
I use #Waterfox on my phone and have no complaints. It's Firefox stripped down and with some privacy settings enabled.
I only use Chrome at work as Firefox is banned and M$ Edge is the only other choice). While I have Chromium installed on the Debian laptop, it's largely for testing purposes.
#firefox #windows #meme #funny #tech #technology #microsoft #mozilla #fox #furry
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Photo of a fox licking a window. The caption reads "Firefox has encountered an unexpected problem with Windows."
"Sparky 8.2 updates packages, kernel, desktop environments and fixes bugs"
"Sparky8.2, a quarterly update for the 'Seven Sisters' release, refreshes all packages from Debian and Sparky repositories as of February 14, 2026."
uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites (1000+) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with @ublockorigin or uBlacklist. Also works on mobile (iOS, iPadOS, Android) via uBlacklist, as well as pihole/adguard.
#blocklist #ublockorigin #noai #web #ai #websec #online #privacy #onlinesafety #android #ios #ipados #firefox #browser
Stop memorizing your passwords. Seriously.
Your brain is designed for patterns, not encryption. If you can remember your password, it is weak.
In the next video, we are fixing your digital hygiene. No closed source "just trust me, bro" apps. No browser saving. FOSS digital sovereignty.
Which side are you on right now?
#Bitwarden #Vaultwarden #Proton #ProtonPass #KeePassXC #Firefox #Chrome #Edge #Safari #Passwords #Password #Cybersecurity #Security #Privacy #FOSS #OpenSource #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #NoAI #DigitalSovereignty
| Team Cloud (Bitwarden/Proton): | 11 |
| Team Local (KeePassXC): | 7 |
| I still use my Browser 😬: | 1 |
| I use a sticky note... 🤦: | 0 |
@xgranade EXACTLY THAT!
#Discord is like #MicrosoftTeams a "Shitty #App that tries to be a jack of all trades, and thus is a master if none!"
#IRC, #XMPP+#OMEMO (#gajim & #moniclesChat), #PGP/MIME (#deltaChat), #Zulip and #RocketChat exist for good #TextChat.
#JitsiMeet offers #Vieocalling and #ScreenSharing and #Mumble offers #VoiceChat…
Instead if one #Bloatware, multiple smaller tools can do the same aspects better.
- People don't expect #Thunderbird to be a spreadsheet program nor do people expect #LibreOffice to be a good #Browser or #Firefox on it's own to be a good IDE to develop Linux Kernel Drivers!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116006718073303488
Weaseling around with idiosyncratic meanings of “opt-in” is like weaseling around with idiosyncratic meanings of “consent,” @firefoxwebdevs (and @mozilla). Don’t do that.
#creepy #consent #firefox #mozilla
@alextecplayz here's the help page, so you can judge for yourself https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-ai-controls. We mostly refrain from using "opt-in" because people have different definitions of opt-in, e.g. some have said it's only opt-in if it's in a separate binary.
I asked for UI that shows downloaded models, but there wasn't time for that in 148. I'll keep asking for it 😀
"Firefox Is Adding a Simple Way to Say No to AI"
"Starting with Firefox 148, you can turn off AI and keep it off"
https://www.lifewire.com/ai-controls-arrive-with-firefox-148-11898308
@valpackett I have a tablet with Adreno 306 (samsung-gt510) and GTK, Qt and Firefox are all completely broken. The only thing that renders correctly and surprisingly fast is Chromium.
There was an open issue at Mesa a couple years ago, but I can't find it anymore.
#GTK #Qt #Firefox #Chromium #Mesa
#Adreno #Adreno306 #Samsung
Found a gem for YouTube (V3 extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/v3-get-old-youtube-layout/) — which brings the old interface (from the start of XXI century) back. It is more clean, if it is even possible to say "clean" about YouTube interface, and also it is faster as hell then the "modern" one.
On the my box (Thinkpad X220 with i7, 16 Gb of RAM) the usual YouTube lags as hell, even while I'm scrolling. The old one — works almost instantly, lol.
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YouTube with old interface from 2013 (provided by V3 extension). There is a main page on the screenshot.
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YouTube with old interface from 2013 (provided by V3 extension). There is a page with running video on the screenshot.
I am writing a post on rise of software that help bring back sanity to the web. Please help me expand the list 😎✨
https://thatshubham.com/blog/2026
#indieweb #distraction #enshittification #technology #internet #socialmedia #adhd #depression #mentalhealth #sysadmin #retro #youtube #facebook #google #firefox #chrome
@joby Don't blame the programmers. I'm sure it's the sales team / executive suite / etc. who insist they do these things.
My own pet peave when I need to use Windows (which I avoid when possible) is that any time Windows brings up something in the browser, it will be in Edge ignoring my stated preference to use Firefox.
There are extensions (for #Firefox at least) that can block those annoying "Log in with Google" popups eg Block Origin.
You may have heard that #mozilla introduced an #AI kill switch into #Firefox.
If you would rather use a browser that is less interested in #LLM technologies, @Waterfox has been your companion for over a decade.
I had a chance to ask the founder and developer some questions about Waterfox's history, operations, and their take on AI.
Enjoy and and share!
"Finally! Firefox Is Getting a Kill Switch for Its (Unwanted) AI Features"
"Maybe this will bring back some of those lost users."
Well, Hallelujah.
"The browser maker this week announced a new set of AI controls for Firefox, headlined by a global kill switch that lets users disable every current and future AI feature in one go."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/firefox_ai_kill_switch/
Mozilla is adding AI Controls to Firefox starting with version 148, set to roll out on Feb 24. It'll allow you to toggle some or all of the AI features built-into the browser, including chatbot in sidebar, translations, tab group suggestions & more. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/ #Mozilla #AI #Firefox
@bradlinder seriously, @mozilla_support, STOP THAT SHITE!
- LITERALLY NOONE WANTS #AIslop or any other "#AI" BULLSHIT IN #Firefox (or it's forks) AND IF YOU CAN'T STOP IT, CONSIDER HANDING OVER TO @Waterfox or better yet, @torproject and make #TorBrowser the new #Upstream!
#FLOSS #Enshitttification #venting #sarcadm #comment #Mozilla
@siklist Good question.
@Waterfox should be able to import things and if you're on #Linux all you need is to sync the subdirectory at $HOME/.config/ with any tool you want.
@fuchsiii does sync her stuff with @nextcloud as it has the #Nextcloud #Bookmarks sync option and she's using multiple devices, OSes and browsers at the same time.
Personally, I do backup, sync and restore my stuff to by personal mini-server at home via #SSH onto an encrypted drive.
Tho my default browser is @torproject / #TorBrowser and that is best used on @tails_live / @tails / #Tails which can also do manual syncing via SSH on the local network.
- I've not bothered to setup an #OnionService because it's beyond what I personally need but some folks do need it.
But what pisses me off is #Mozilla's tone-deaf ignorance of LITERALLY EVERYONE that uses #Firefox that they need to STOP #Enshittifying NOW!
- Because the only folks that love "#AI" / #AIslop are financial assholes like #A16z that push the whole "AI" #PumpAndDump #scam because they lost out when #Shitcoins and #NFTs didn't became mainstream and they gamble that the #Trump regime won't #PopTheBubble because it's already "#TooBigToFail" and will make the #GreatRecession look like the time (not so long ago) when #Switzerland deregulated [#CHF - #EUR] exchange rates in comparison!
Cc: @mozilla_support
Mozilla is adding a toggle to disable all generative "AI" features in Firefox. It shows that organized pushback is actually making a difference.
One battle won. Now let's make it crystal clear. We want tools, not forced LLMs. Keep the pressure on until "AI" is no longer an option.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/firefox-will-soon-let-you-block-all-of-its-generative-ai-features/
#Firefox #Mozilla #NoAI #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #TerminalTilt
"Mozilla Adding ‘Off’ Switch to AI in Firefox"
"Flip the switch."
https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-adding-off-switch-to-ai-in-firefox-2000716918
One Open-source Project Daily Selfhosting your own Firefox Accounts (FxA)!
Mozilla Corporation has announced a AI toggle feature in its Firefox browser
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-will-let-you-turn-off-all-firefox-ai-features/
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La corporation Mozilla a annoncée un bouton pour activer/désactiver l’IA dans leur fureteur Firefox
// Article en anglais //
#Mozilla #Firefox #AI #IA #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle
"You can turn off every Firefox AI feature this month"
"Opt out of AI when the update drops in February.You're readingYou can turn off every Firefox AI feature this month, a blog post fromOMG! Firefox 148 adds a new "AI Controls" panel to granularly disable or entirely block AI features with a kill-switch."
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/firefox-148-disable-ai-features
"Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off"
"Unlike many of the companies stuffing AI into their browsers, Mozilla will soon give you a way to turn all of these features off."
https://www.theverge.com/news/872489/mozilla-firefox-ai-features-off-button
Alright. So. A few things.
- The right time to give me a choice in whether or not unasked 'AI' 'features' were shoved down my throat was before you did the shoving
- Making everyone refer to obscure guides that involve bypassing scare warnings in order to turn those features off is phenomenally bad user experience
- The unasked for, unwanted 'AI' features you've been shoving down our throats behave — from a user perspective — similar to cryptojacking in that their computer suddenly performs very poorly without transparency to the user about why or a choice about turning it off (again, the wrong time to ask is after you've already done the bad thing)
- I am not signing up for yet another god damn thing just so I can tell you so
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The browser that gives you a say
AI controls give you more say in how you move across the web.
We believe choice is more important than ever as AI becomes a part of people’s browsing experiences. What matters to us is giving people control, no matter how they feel about AI.
If you’d like to try AI controls early, they’ll be available first in Firefox Nightly. We’d love to hear what you think on Mozilla Connect.
Man the Bitwarden addon for #Firefox is annoying me. I click the bitwarden shield icon in the toolbar, start entering my master password and while I'm entering it the addon clears the password field and I have to enter the password again.
Firefox 148 erhält Kill-Switch für KI
https://linuxnews.de/firefox-148-erhaelt-kill-switch-fuer-ki/ #mozilla #firefox #browser #KI #AI #opensource #linuxnews