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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116975530665832960
Context: this is the (interim) VP of Firefox admitting that he doesn’t understand the purpose of the slack channel used to report and discuss negative online sentiment and PR about Mozilla.
It wasn't on my "To Do" list to change browsers this week, but now it is. Disappointed in #Mozilla
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Mozilla announced Firefox is going back on X
Mozilla: "no, what are you talking about, we care about the community, we're not just treating them as an asset to monetize!"
Also Mozilla: https://piaille.fr/@siltaer/115895523348872710
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116958382115564493
So @mozilla shut down their own Mastodon instance, don't post on their mastodon.social account anymore either, have no official Firefox presence on the Fediverse anymore (besides developer-focused accounts @firefoxwebdevs and @firefoxnightly, which do a great job but serve a different audience), and then pull shit like this. What an utter disappointment indeed.
#Firefox #Mozilla #MozillaFirefox
@firefoxwebdevs Thanks for trying to obfuscate that #Mozilla is also returning to MechaHitler's home, noted Nazi Elon Musk's X.
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Post from Firefox on Twitter saying: We took time off of X, but we’re back. The internet is changing again, so we’re here as an independent voice for our users and the open internet.
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Post from Firefox for Web Developers on Mastodon saying: Full transparency: I was made aware of the X account reopening, and asked for @FirefoxOfficial to be created too.
Here's a crazy idea for my wonderful fedipeeps.
Now that #Mozilla is back on the #fediverse,
Maybe DON'T shit on them.
Maybe embrace them.
Maybe just remind them of what was good about them in years past, and encourage them to seek the good, rather than the latest #SiliconValley management brainrot.
You don't have to look for every opportunity to vent and fume.
"We took a little time away from the Nazi Bar, but we noticed there's less pushback now for partying with the fash. So, back inside we go. Something-something, aren't-we-virtuous."
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A tweet from the official Firefox account on Twitter/X:
We took time off of X, but we're back. The internet is changing again, so we're here as an independent voice for our users and the open internet.
Firefox users - poll
Do you use the 64-bit or 32-bit version of Mozilla Firefox?
#Firefox #Mozilla #MozillaFirefox #Poll
| 64-bit: | 11 |
| 32-bit: | 0 |
| Both 64-bit and 32-bit: | 0 |
| I don't know: | 0 |
Some people may find different things more or less objectionable.
Brave is one of the browsers I use. I also still use Firefox (though I now find the Mozilla organization to be quite objectionable).
PNG and XCF on request :)
#plushtodon #mastodon #plushtoys #plushie #plushies #plush #xenia #linux #linuxKernel #Tux #firefox #mozilla #mozillafirefox #meme #edit #MyEdit #OC
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I WOULD USE COMPUTER IF:
(Tux plushy) This was the kernel
(Xenia plushy) This was the user experience
(Firefox plushy) This was the web browser
(Mastodon plushy) This was the social media
Mozilla stellt neue Roadmap für Firefox vor
https://linuxnews.de/mozilla-stellt-neue-roadmap-fuer-firefox-vor/ #mozilla #firefox #opensource #linuxnews
💼 Mozilla is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform
Location: 🇨🇦 Canada
💰 Salary: CAD $116000 - CAD $171000
#DataScience #DataScientist #tech #JobSearch #GetFediHired #HashyJobs # #Mozilla
https://datasciencejobs.com/jobs/senior-machine-learning-engineer-mozilla-canada-18/
Just block all LLM crapola in firefox with this button
#LLM #hallucinated #AI #slop #basic #arithmetic #stupid #programming #Mozilla #firefox #Google #Alphabet #FB #facebook #whatsapp #Enshittification
A sad indictment of the AI buzzchasing corporate husk #Mozilla has become.
"Leadership was convinced that the people in our Community were just customers, and maybe fans. This pissed off so, so many folk, and rightly so. They had given hours or years of effort and time without compensation, because they believed they were part of a larger effort."
#Firefox kann jetzt Webseiten Zugriff auf #USB-Geräte via #WebSerial erlauben. Klingt scary, ist es auch. Ist allerdings auch praktisch, wenn man sein #Android-Gerät mit #GrapheneOS flashen will oder die Tastatur per WebApp konfigurieren.
https://www.heise.de/news/Firefox-151-Endlich-Web-Serial-fuer-den-beliebten-Browser-11314905.html
Whoops, looks like #Mozilla #Firefox users will loss the accurately formatted (by #XSLT) #RSS feed page, after pressing to "RSS" link in my blog
Sincelery, I don't know what to advise… Looks like the various "old Firefox with XUL" forks (like Pale Moon) aren't just for nostalgia, but for everyday use in the nearby future.
"Firefox is working on a rounded redesign with easy-to-find controls for privacy and AI"
"Firefox is getting a drastic visual overhaul with a redesigned Settings section that will make it easier to find and use privacy settings, including the switch for turning off all present and future AI features."
https://www.theverge.com/tech/935631/firefox-project-nova-redesign
Huh, with one new release of IronFox (v151.0), based on the Firefox 151.0, the beforementioned settings to bring back rectangle toolbar and normal-sized main menu… are predictably disappeared
Instead, I can enable "Sports Widget" on the homepage, to watch for World Cup events
Fuck you Mozilla!
#Mozilla #Firefox #Android #enshittification
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"Secret settings"in the IronFox. A lot of toggles but the toggles to bring back rectangle menu and toolbar are now missing, while the other settings from my previous toot still exists.
#Mozilla say they used AI to find 22 vulnerabilities in #Firefox v148, and *271* in v150: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/
Stepping away from the usual discourse around AI in software development for a moment - is that realistic? Literal hundreds of unpatched, unknown flaws in software used by millions every day, just waiting to be found and cracked?
Like, is it just changing variable types and claiming it's fixed a buffer overflow 200 times, or *is all modern software* actually that fragile and risky?
I'm three weeks late here but this is a really good interview/talk with Mozilla's VP of Product:
271 real bugs. Real Firefox. All patched.
The scariest thing about this week's Mozilla post isn't in the bug table.
It's in the methodology section.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/better-rivets
#ai #anthropic #blog #firefox #glasswing #infosec #mozilla #mythos #security #userhostile
yes, this is the company that #Mozilla decided to work with on ad tracking in the browser
"And at the heart of the issue is the way Meta has incentivised the creation of hateful AI slop as it chases user engagement and ad revenue..."
#Mozilla Used #Anthropic’s #Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in #Firefox
https://www.wired.com/story/mozilla-used-anthropics-mythos-to-find-271-bugs-in-firefox/
More breathless, but vague praise for #Mythos. Now #mozilla's CTO has come out with a detail-free, hyperbole-laden blog post.
I can't get anything below the surface level on this blog post. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.
- The blog post itself contains no links or references (except a link to a prior blog post)
- The Firefox 150 release notes has zero mentions of #Claude, #Anthropic, or Mythos.
- The security advisories in Firefox 150 lists 41 bugs
- Anthropic is credited exactly 3 times.
- The blog post says This week’s release of Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified during this initial evaluation
- it is not clear why the blog says 271, the release lists 41 issues, and only 3 acknowledge Anthropic
- I've tried looking on Mozilla's bugzilla and I have no access to any bug that is named in those release notes. I can't even see the conversation, much less the code change.
How is someone supposed to put this blog post's claims into context?
#Mozilla takes on enterprise #AI providers with #Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt is for businesses that want #opensource, #selfhosted alternative to #MicrosoftCopilot, #ChatGPT, #Claude, and lock-in & security concerns
"The problem we are solving today is one of sovereignty & control," MZLA Ryan Sipes said. "Do you really want to build your AI workflows on top of a proprietary service from OpenAI or Anthropic … having all your internal company data flowing through their systems?"
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/mozilla_thunderbolt_enterprise_ai_client/
Mozilla Firefox 150 brings stronger local network privacy protections, Linux GTK emoji picker support, and new tools for reorganizing PDF pages.
https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-firefox-150-now-available-for-download/
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Mozilla Firefox 150 brings stronger local network privacy protections, Linux GTK emoji picker support, and new tools for reorganizing PDF pages.
#Mozilla #Firefox - Merkwürdige Dinge passieren hier - Firefox in der Krise !
Wie lange benutzt Ihr schon Mozilla Firefox? Hat sich für euch gefühlt etwas verändert?
Habt Ihr in den Einstellungen schon mal unter die Motorhaube geschaut oder benutzt Ihr Firefox einfach so wie installiert?
Früher ging das und man war der sicheren Seite. Heute sollte man bei den aktuellen Versionen aber den #Datenschutz und die #Privatsphäre prüfen und entsprechend einstellen.
Wer KI-Funktionen mag, der kann die Einstellungen so belassen. Wer keine #KI und keine #VPN mag, der muss das alles deaktivieren.
Ob man jetzt den #Microsoft #Copilot in Firefox benötigt oder Microsoft-Software überhaupt nicht auf seinem #Linux PC haben möchte, dass muss man auch selbst entscheiden und einstellen.
Die vergangenen Jahre aber, wo Mozilla Firefox grundsätzlich besser war, die sind leider vorbei.
Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/mozilla-announced-thunderbolt-their-open-source-and-self-hostable-ai-client/
Strong language [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
The Firefox programmers being arseholes again
Go to your homepage settings and remove sponsored links and sponsored stories
I fucking know that I never turned those things on
These options should always be opt in
All these fucking companies doing this bullshit!
And while you're at it also remove the LLM large language model bullshit
#Mozilla #Firefox #Foundation #LLM #AI #slop #Ads #programming
Firefox automatically offers to translate this Italian JPEG.
That's wonderful, but not as wonderful as knowing neither the meaning of the imagery, nor why.
#arch #Italy #art #Mozilla #Firefox #translate #Wikipedia
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Screenshot: Firefox, offering to translate a JPEG on Wikipedia.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/An_Architectural_Capriccio_with_a_Bacchanalian_Procession_by_Filippo_Gagliardi_and_Giovanni_Benedetto_Castiglione.jpg
#Mozilla #Firefox #DarkPatterns#antifeatures #AISlop #NoAI #NoAIWebBrowsers #AICruft #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #web
Long post [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
I've now had at least four people, two of whom self-identified as Mozilla employees, claim that the above list of AI features--which were suddenly and rapidly added over the last few releases of Firefox, and were "on" (true) by default--could easily be turned off by flipping one master kill switch. This is not true, but folks keep claiming it or suggesting it anyway.Here's a post from an official Firefox Mastodon account suggesting such a master kill switch does not exist yet, but will be added in a future release:
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
That's not as bad as it could be. It's bad they're stuffing AI into a perfectly good web browser for no apparent reason other than vibes or desperation. It's very bad if it's on by default; their dissembling post about it aside, opt-in has a reasonably clear meaning here: if there's a kill switch, then that kill switch should be off by default. But at least there will be a kill switch.
In any case, please stop responding to my post saying there's a master kill switch for Firefox's AI slop features. From the horse's mouth, and from user experience, there is not yet.
Furthermore, when there is a master kill switch, we don't know whether flipping it will maintain previous state of all the features it controls. In other words it's possible they'll have the master kill switch turn on all AI features when the switch is flipped to "on" or "true", rather than leaving them in whatever state you'd set them to previously. Perhaps you decide to turn the kill switch on because there are a handful of features you're comfortable with and you want to try them; will doing so mean that now all the AI features are on? We won't know till it's released and people try this. So, in the meantime, it's still good practice to keep an eye on all these configuration options if you want the AI off.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #web #tech #dev #Firefox #Mozilla #AISlop #NoAI #NoLLMs #NoAIBrowsers
Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.He says the word "trust" a whole bunch of times yet intends to turn an otherwise nice web browser into a slop-slinging platform. I don't expect this will work out very well for anyone.
"It will evolve into a modern AI browser" sounds like a threat. Good way to start off on the right foot, new Mozilla CEO (sarcasm).
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AntiFeatures #DarkPatterns #AISlop #firefox #mozilla #NoAI
- browser.aiwindow.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.menu
- browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page
- browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
- browser.ml.chat.sidebar
- browser.ml.enable
- browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
- browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
- browser.ml.smartAssist.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
- extensions.ml.enabled
- sidebar.notification.badge.aichat
Enter "about:config" in the browser bar and then search for each of these and disable them, turn them off, or set them to false as appropriate.
Depending on which version of Firefox you have you may not have all these configuration options.
Check your smartphone browsers too!
#firefox #mozilla #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SmartIsSurveillance #tech #dev #web #NoAI #AICruft #antifeatures
#firefox #mozilla #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SmartIsSurveillance #tech #dev #web
TIL #Mozilla now offers an #AI web scraper:
https://tabstack.ai/
"It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your agents always get what they need without friction."
"staying stealthy".
This reads phenomenally scummy and, personally, I translate this to "our tool pretends to be a human and tries to circumvent protections like Anubis".