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Anyone know why the Legacy fork of Firefox (Firefox-Dynasty) was taken down along with the lead developers ShitHub account? #opensource #mozillafirefox #mozilla #tech #foss
Where are now all the people blaming #Mozilla because they don't listen to their users?
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/firefox-will-soon-let-you-block-all-of-its-generative-ai-features/
@fasterandworse. I expressed my thoughts a couple of months ago that #mozilla needed an organisational fork.
Recent posts by the dev account and various folks are rather reinforcing that idea for me.
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 😀
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!
Hopefully it links to the executive's chair that made these shitty decisions for Mozilla and sends a little jolt every time it is turned off.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/mozilla-adds-one-click-option-to.html
@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
I appreciate that #Mozilla will now give people the chance to turn off #AI features in #Firefox. Some of those features may be helpful to me; others not.
I REALLY dislike (hate?) how some #software providers force AI features onto their users with little regard for what they need—or want.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/mozilla-firefox-ai-generative-block-user-feedback-browser
@davidgerard @theorangetheme @froztbyte @firefoxwebdevs What gets me is how the AI bubble is looking ready to pop, the stocks are taking a bath and deals are starting to unwind, but #AI is the hill #Mozilla is going to die on.
At least they are consistent in their ability to be on the trailing edge of whatever the latest hype may be.
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 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
Mostly done with moving from Firefox to @librewolf as my daily driver.
Screw Mozilla's "AI" bullshit.
Firefox 148 erhält Kill-Switch für KI
https://linuxnews.de/firefox-148-erhaelt-kill-switch-fuer-ki/ #mozilla #firefox #browser #KI #AI #opensource #linuxnews
@plwt@mstdn.so-cial
#Syncronisation of mobil disconected, Login failed, same on Desktop
It is a simple thing:-#Password is indicated as wrong
- Password recovery:
-- E-Mail with one time codes arrives
--#Mozilla recovery key is indicated as wrong
--TOTP is indicated as wrong
All of the credentials are stored in Keepass and and and it is least unlikely that they are all wrong at once.
I saw that there login screen offers now the to login with Google etc. hence is changed.
I guess something went wrong
Apparently if you go into #Mozilla #Thunderbird font settings and increase the font size, it ONLY changes the font size of the message window. The lefthand folder pane and the list of messages pane is still fucking microscopic 8 or 10 pt font and fucking unreadable!!!
Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News show, in which #Mozilla yet again shoots itself in the foot...
@benzogaga33
Il manque toujours le choix "Pas d'IAgen du tout". Ce qu'ils présentent, c'est un faux dilemme et ça s'apparente à du sophisme.
Ils sont vraiment déconnectés des utilisateurs chez #Mozilla.
People are acting like this move from #Mozilla is bad: https://stateof.mozilla.org/
But I disagree!
"Doing for AI what we did for the web" -- if they're serious, that will be great! Push AI down to <1% of all Internet traffic? If Mozilla can do that -- like they did with Firefox -- I'd thank them!
If you are a volunteer or low rank at #mozilla and you feel bad by this, I apologize. My ire is directed towards whatever people are dictating the business strategy here. I'm really sorry that you were caught in the middle of the Hydra protocol. I hope things change. But I'm done waiting
What the actuall #mozilla fuck? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/mozilla-building-an-ai-rebel-alliance-to-take-on-openai-anthropic-.html
They want to piss away $1.4bn on an AI project??? Holy shit if they have $1.4bn then OMFG that could sustain good, free and fair mozilla for many decades JFC
#Mozilla has published what I can only call as an exercise of violence disguised as a website. What. The fuck. Is this. There is NO ONE at the wheel here. All of this is fucking unserious, ridiculous and in some parts, plain gaslighting. I am sorry, but I'm moving out. What the fuck is this, a brainrot manifesto? Fuck GenAI seriously
RE: https://neopaquita.es/@berniethewordsmith/115968932362619048
The latest #Mozilla marketing pitch reminds me of that famous speech by Mon Mothma:
“We are launching our own Rebel Star to blow up planets which support the Empire. It’s totally better than the Death Star and not unethical at all. Join us to build a better future for the galaxy!”
#Mozilla has published what I can only call as an exercise of violence disguised as a website. What. The fuck. Is this. There is NO ONE at the wheel here. All of this is fucking unserious, ridiculous and in some parts, plain gaslighting. I am sorry, but I'm moving out. What the fuck is this, a brainrot manifesto? Fuck GenAI seriously
#mozilla has finally and officially gone off the deep end https://stateof.mozilla.org/tools/ thanks to new CEO.
Enzor-DeMeo said he plans to expand Firefox and Mozilla's product ecosystem with AI-powered features, while reducing the company's dependence on search revenue over the next three years
Before joining Mozilla in late 2024, Enzor-DeMeo held executive roles at fintech firm Roofstock. He has also held senior positions at furniture retailer Wayfair.
Damn, @mozilla is doing everything it can to make good folks hate it
First Mozilla enables Google Safe Browsing, and then blocks accessing about:config on Firefox Android
Google is banning @IzzyOnDroid for no good reason, yet I have to jump multiple steps to configure Firefox: that is, first to enable about:config by accessing chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml and toggling general.aboutConfig.enable to even access nasty browser.safebrowsing.* settings.
Google is known for breaking antitrust law, this may be yet another case of eliminating alternative app stores from the radar.
Seriously, Mozilla, why you are trying so hard to make everyone hate you?
Ephraims Wochenrückblick (in Vertretung): KW 4, 2026
Malware in Snaps, Browser-Addons, Qt Version, KDE Apps, Mozilla und F-Droid sind diese Woche mit dabei.
#Firefox #Qt6 #Adblocker #Snap #kde #Mozilla #F_Droid #Linux
https://gnulinux.ch/ephraims-wochenrueckblick-in-vertretung-kw-4-2026
Search on YouTube is at its worst right now. You type "how to make apple pie," and the algorithm gives you three ads, a viral cat short, and a "For You" video about gaming.
It is what @pluralistic rightly calls enshittification.
I spent the last month refactoring the core script for search fixer. Big improvements:
> A new settings UI that doesn't look like an airplane cockpit.
> Improved anti-shorts protocol: Revert shorts to the normal player.
> Fixed the filters for those annoying auto-generated "mixes" that clutter the results.
> Optional grid view for search.
> Experimental keyword matching.
homepage:
https://phoennix.gitlab.io/youtubesearchfix/
update and new features:
https://phoennix.gitlab.io/youtubesearchfix/update.html
Reclaim your feed and I hope you give it a try✨🙏
#opensource #enshittification #firefox #chrome #mozilla #browser #youtube #distraction #adhd #mentalhealth #cooking #reading #tumblr #art #design #nature
#Mozilla should focus on Firefox.
I think the Foundation is a distraction at best.
Mozilla should make it easy for anyone to pledge a monthly donation for Firefox development and maintenance.
Mozilla should drop all "AI" integration from Firefox.
Mozilla should drop cooperation with adtech and focus on ad blocking and tracking blocking.
I answered the #Mozilla questionnaire, and boosted links to it, but I have low expectations. The questionnaire itself is really loaded. There's a multiple choice question about what you think of AI, but no choice remotely resembles "I think #AI is terrible and must be stopped." The only reason you should answer is for the last question, where you can write whatever you want. I'm sure most respondents will say "Please remove the AI from #Firefox," but I'm also sure they will ignore the results.
You think, #Mozilla sucks?
Because of all the corporate bullshit, their embracing of LLM-slop or other things?
They're asking for our opinion, and we should let them know.
In spite of everything, it is still relevant.
Mozilla have a vibe-gathering survey out about AI.
https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201
If you use Firefox or any other Mozilla software, please tell them how you feel about AI.
#Mozilla #Firefox #Thunderbird #AI #LLMs #FuckAI #NoAI #AntiAI
Alt...
Screenshot of form.
What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?
Textbox: No development of AI in the browser itself, and a focus on developing tools to block AI on websites.
Button: Submit Survey
Mozilla wants your input.
https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201
Here's mine:
#Mozilla #Firefox #AI #NoAI #NoOneWants #feedback #BS
Alt...
Screenshot of the final blank text input box from a Mozilla survey/feedback form. The prompt above the box is "What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?"
My answer:
The single most important thing I would like from Mozilla is...
I want my relationship with the maker of my web-browser to be non-
adversarial. It's been a while since that was true.
I don't want them shipping on-by-default "AI" bullshit with the excuse
that we'll be able to turn it off.
I don't want them creating bullshit polls that only take positive feedback
about whatever management has already decided they want to do.
I don't want them sending Annoying Reply Guy to the Fediverse to argue
in bad faith about what a poll means, what the results mean, or what "no
Al in Firefox" means, deliberately conflating the "AI" that no-one wants
with long-extant features like translation that people want to keep.
I don't want them behaving like a for-profit company, chasing bullshit
trends, spouting marketing jibberish, utterly failing the users,
misunderstanding the community, and treating the users as a waste
byproduct of their very important chase of vulture capital.
I want them to value the users, respect the users, heck, even cherish the
users.
Mozilla fragt: »What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?«
Ganz einfach: einen Browser mit maximalen Sicherheits- und Datenschutzstandards. Ohne Tracking, ohne Datensammelei, ohne »wir machen das für die Finanzierung«-Ausreden. Ein Browser, der Nutzer konsequent schützt, transparent erklärt, was passiert, und sich wieder klar auf die ursprüngliche Mission besinnt: ein offenes Web, in dem der Mensch im Mittelpunkt steht – nicht Werbenetzwerke, Datenbroker und Profiling.
Und bitte: kein KI-Kram im Browser. Keine Zwangs-Features, keine Assistenten, die Daten abgreifen, keine »smarten« Experimente.
Danke!
They are not asking your opinion about #AI, they are doing market research. Not among their customers, because you're likely not one. About their product. You.
You are freely giving them data to sell to their customers.
“When you advertise on Mozilla’s Firefox and MDN Web Docs, you’ll connect with over 210 million selective, discerning, brand-loyal users. Because they trust us, they’ll trust you.”
– Mozilla
🤣
Dunking on people and companies is more popular than saying anything positive, but, #mozilla with #firefox created the web as we have it today.
Without them, without Gecko, we might be trying to run Internet Explorer 6.1 service pack 15.
Y'all don't remember how broken the web was with ie6 as the only viable browser. ActiveX, VBscript. Transparent PNGs were <object>s!
Nothing worked outside of ie6.
Give them the benefit of the doubt. They want an open and usable web.
@firefoxwebdevs @jesterchen @duke_of_germany
Immediately restore the work of japanese language translators that you paved over with AI slop
https://linuxiac.com/ai-controversy-forces-end-of-mozilla-japanese-sumo-community/
I'm sure you are all as tired as I am of Mozilla's bullshit. But this is a good look into the deceptive patterns they use in Firefox to please get anyone to use their "AI" stuff: «Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews»
How about that for a kill-switch, @firefoxwebdevs?
Developing a new Web browser is by now an endevour comparable to the Apollo missions - and probably even more complex.
There are 1191 W3C specifications and recommendations out there right now (actually a bit less than the time when that article was written in 2020).
That’s about ~110M words.
Put togeter the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 9580 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of the 10 longest novels, and you still won’t reach that many words.
Even building a fully POSIX-compliant operating system is by now 1-2 orders of magnitude less demanding than building a fully W3C-compliant #browser.
I guess that’s probably why both #Google and #Mozilla feel free of enshittifying as much as they like and get away with it.
So I just uninstalled firefox from my android device. Forced myself to use it simply because...it's firefox, but honestly Vivaldi is so much powerful on mobile. With Vivaldi I can quickly change the zoom level on any page making the text more readable...with Firefox the only option is to pinch with two fingers enlarging text and images and making the page impossible to read. So bad. So sad.
Nach Nutzerprotesten: #Firefox bekommt kompletten KI-Abschalter | iX Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/Firefox-Mozilla-verspricht-AI-Kill-Switch-nach-Kritik-an-KI-Strategie-11121377.html #ArtificialIntelligence #Datenschutz #privacy #DSGVO #GDPR #Browser #Webbrowser #Mozilla #MozillaFirefox
I have disabled every fucking piece of AI bullshit I can find from Firefox and DESPITE THAT today I got ambushed by a new ASK AN AI CHATBOT line in a fucking image context menu
jesus FUCKING CHRIST @mozilla
STOP.
FUCKING.
PUSHING.
THIS.
SHIT.
ON.
US.
(I know the account's abandoned. Don't care. Best I've got. Fucking Mozilla.)
Firefox is adding a feature you'll actually want to use: Split View. It lets you see two websites side-by-side in a single tab.
It's still a WIP, but if you run Firefox 146 you can try it out.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/enable-firefox-split-view-feature?v1
I think I will love this new Firefox feature. Thank you @mozilla
Firefox is Adding Split View for Tabs, Here's How to Enable It - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/enable-firefox-split-view-feature
#Mozilla delivers the same kind of underhanded biased questions I got about AI adoption at work.
Where's the option for "I try AI features out when they are made available, but haven't found them to be useful so far"?
Is it so hard to believe that there are people who are open minded and yet still not finding value in these features?
Alt...
A survey from Mozilla about Firefox, in which their AI-related questions basically make you choose between "I haven't tried it yet", "I love it", and "I hate AI".
Finally I drew this #comic about #Mozilla #Firefox market share. For me it's not even (only) about AI mess but whole trend I see, with company ignoring user base and focusing on wrong things.
I once wrote here, or on previous profile, that every time Mozilla-related hashtags are popular, I am rather afraid what they broke, not excited about new updates or features.
Meanwhile in my main private machine Firefox is so memory-devouring I have to turn it on only when I need, do my thing and quickly turn off. This is almost 5 years now, with some experiments in config, removing unnecessary extensions and reinstallation. I don't have more ideas how to fix it other than browser change
#drawing #nerd #geek #browser #krita
Alt...
Two panel comic, with "Be careful what you wish for..." headline. On first panel boy with fair hair, wearing darker brown shirt is talking to blue-skinned genie, near magic lamp on gray table surface.
Genie: "...and your last wish?"
Boy: "I want to see Linux market share... at least like Firefox share..."
On second panel, described as "10 years later..." now adult boy is sitting on desk with laptop, looking at charts displayed on wall above. There is a pie chart and line, marking gradual lower values in time. It is described as Mozilla Firefox market share.
Adult guy is thinking: "Damn! Not this way..."
There has been concern about Firefox evolving into “a modern AI browser,” but now Firefox developer says AI will be Opt-In, plus a kill switch to banish AI.
This is a good thing.
https://9to5linux.com/firefox-will-ship-with-an-ai-kill-switch-to-completely-disable-all-ai-features
So, with #Firefox becoming a slop browser, I think I can see where we're going. We are going to have 2 internets;
1 internet that is corporate, AI-filled, without privacy, browseable only with Chrome and Firefox;
1 internet that exists of stuff like the Fediverse, personal websites, and is usable with FF forks and older browsers.
These worlds will grow apart over time, and with the second category of browser, we will not be able to visit the corporate sphere anymore; the big platforms, online stores, maybe also things like WordPress sites, and notably, this will also include governmental sites and banking sites.
In the corporate browsers, we are always identified, logged, tracked. VPN and ad blockers will be banned. In short, government and corporations (which is becoming the same thing in the west, yay #neoliberalism ) will have full control here.
Most people will fall in line and reluctantly keep using the corporate browsers, while a smaller group will move to the "alternative internet" altogether, on which #enshittification and #ensloppification doesn't take place. (we're already here! yay!)
We end up being forced to use the corporate browser for some stuff that you can hardly get around - government, banking, contact with normies - not unlike how living without smartphone feels today.
So, just like it is living without a smartphone, I see us non-compliant people using some second device with the corporate browser, to manage that kind of stuff, while steering clear from it in daily life. (at most workplaces though, people will have no choice.)
These are my thoughts on which direction the internet seems to be going. At one hand, I wouldn't mind the internet splitting into two, so I can evade the corporate part.
But my problem lies with the part where we kinda can't get around having to go into the corporate sphere regularly, forced by majority culture as well as governments, which will be all too happy to have everyone nicely identifiable and compliant.
It can get really bad if the good part of the internet becomes outlawed, and that might well happen if we keep living under corporate/neolib/authoritarian governments. (talking about "the west" in general, not just the US)
Some good news for all remaining Firefox users: next year, you’ll finally be able to restrict extensions, so they only run specific domains.
New #Mozilla CEO: “Blocking ad-blockers in #Firefox could bring in an additional $150M in revenue“.
Sure, even extracting and selling one of my kidneys could bring me a big revenue, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.
Firefox by now has less than 3% of the browsers’ market share, and the only folks who still use it regularly are exactly those who don’t want ads constantly shoved in their faces, nor trackers to suck up every valuable detail about them.
And they are willing to go the extra step and use a browser that is less supported than the overwhelmingly Chromium-based crowd out there.
Take ad blockers away (and, most importantly, take away Manifest V2 extensions), and those few remaining users will just dwindle away to Brave, Vivaldi, Chromium/Cromite/Vanadium, or to support Ladybird/Servo, before you even finish saying the words “profit margins”.
And of course their collective hallucination with AI has now crossed into the realms of ridicule. Nobody knows exactly what kind of new useful features will be added nor how those will solve problems that users want to solve. All we know is that “AI is coming”, embedded in a lot of low-value features that nobody asked, and that some product managers rushed to release just because someone at the top of the food chain asked to “put AI in their product”, and with literally zero chances of competing against the AI features provided by the browsers of companies like Google and Microsoft who can afford to invest into AI 3-4 orders of magnitude more resources than Mozilla.
I’m wondering why Mozilla seems so committed to this mission of firing dumb CEOs just to hire someone who is even dumber and detached from reality than their predecessor.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500918701463
In fairness #mozilla is suffering more acutely(*) from something affecting many #opensource projects:
A difficulty imagining a digital world different from what the tech bros of silicon valley can dream up.
We are now beyond the phase where an open source version of a closed product is advancing the cause of #foss
The universe is bifurcating: the tech bros are openly hostile to humanity. We need to think and act totally differently.
(*) The adtech money is, alas, a pact with the Devil
It's quite sobering to read that people bother others on the FediVerse, who clearly want nothing to do with LLM slop.
I've also seen something slop related creep into Firefox which I immediately stopped of course.
#LLM #AI #slop #miscreant #technology #Mozilla #Firefox #bot
#Mozilla #Firefox #DarkPatterns#antifeatures #AISlop #NoAI #NoAIWebBrowsers #AICruft #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #web
Waterfox entscheidet sich gegen KI
https://linuxnews.de/waterfox-entscheidet-sich-gegen-ki/ #waterfox #firefox #mozilla #ki #opensource #linuxnews
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
I've decided to try the #Vivaldi browser.
I don't want to wait around while #Mozilla #Firefox turns into an "AI browser". I'm wary of switching to one of its forks because it'll be harder and harder for them to keep up as Firefox continues down the road to perdition.
#Ladybird looks promising, but it won't be ready for prime time for a while, and I expect Firefox to to enshittify quickly. Also, I don't know what Ladybird's plans are for supporting extensions, and I use quite a few. (1/6)
Mozilla adding AI features to Firefox instead of actually improving their browser's security (which lacks horribly) is a terrible choice to me. Not to mention that they had a tough time lately and probably need a good 'ol cash grab to recover (is that why?). Their action kinda reminds me of Proton with Lumo (that cat AI), like who is asking for those things anyway? Oh also I don't care that you can kill switch it. Just don't trust Mozilla and stay secure.
How to kill nearly 30+ years of goodwill: by going all in on AI.
That's what #Mozilla just did with #Firefox.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
It looks like they're going to finally kill themselves after a decade plus of mismanagement.
https://infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-kill-itself
Just thought I would do my part to help calm things down a bit:
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
and
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500918701463
Personal opinion from me:
- There are some very cool new features coming to Firefox.
- There is no need to go crawling through about:config to turn things off. Never really has been.
- There are many contributors all over the world continuing to do awesome work writing code, providing user support and localising all the things.
@yakkoj nodds in agreement Personally I want #Mozilla to hand over #Firefox to either @Waterfox / #Waterfox or @torproject / #TorBrowser devs.
@firefoxwebdevs @Norgg This is nonsense equivocation.
It is 100% clear to anyone not trying to run cover for #Mozilla that multiple #GenAI features have already been introduced into #Firefox as opt-out rather than opt-in. This isn't questionable or debatable or complicated, it's simple fact.
You've given us no reason to believe this is going to change.
Trying to obfuscate this away in this thread makes it clear you're being disingenuous, whether or not you realize you are.
@firefoxwebdevs @Norgg Furthermore, opt-in isn't even enough.
It's not that we want it to be opt-in, we want it to not be there at all, because #GenAI is bad for tech and bad for the people whose content is stolen and bad for culture and bad for the whole fucking world, and we want #Mozilla to take a stand for what is RIGHT, not jump on the catastrophically bad AI hype train and join every other company in the bubble.
Doing AI at all, opt-in or not, is doing the wrong thing.
#Firefox
@radmin @TheZeldaZone and why people like myself want #Mozilla to habd it over to @torproject ...
Timeline auf.
Masochisten, die freiwillig #Linux installiert haben und jetzt unironisch glauben, sie hätten irgendeinen Vorteil davon, den Quellcode, den sie nicht verstehen, anzugucken, kriegen einen Nervenzusammenbruch, weil #Mozilla völlig überraschend vor einem Jahrzehnt aufgehört hat, einen guten Webbrowser rauszubringen, und ihnen anscheinend die Nase abfiele, nutzten sie einen Webbrowser mit ohne öffentlichen Quellcode.
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Kann man schon Schnaps?
Now that #Firefox is going full AI mode… time to focus on the #Browser project I started called Inori, hosted on #Codeberg!
Currently, it’s just a fancy HTML parser in #C and #Swift but it could become a good browser with #OpenSource community contributions in the future.
It supports only #macOS currently but at some point maybe even #Linux or #FreeBSD too?
I might lay out what I plan for Inori in the replies.
Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
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I dumped Windows 10 in February 2025 and moved to #ZorinOS and wonder why I stuck with #Microsoft #Windows for so long.
Around the same time, after years of using #adblockers, I set up a #PiHole with #ubound dns for my whole home network. And after years of being a dedicated #FireFox fan, with the direction #Mozilla was taking, I switched to #Vivaldi.
Thanks to @pluralistic, I discovered #Kagi so sprung for a paid subscription. It reminds me of the way #Google used to be.
Today, I discovered #Tailscale and installed it get access to my #RaspBerryPi #PiHole to filter ads on my devices when I'm out of the house.
As I was setting up Tailscale, I discovered it supports a self-hosted #VPN, which is perfect for my use case, so I can take advantage of my fixed IP to access some remote services.
And after setting all that up, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that #Tailscale is #Canadian.
All-in-all, a productive year of IT infrastructure changes!
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