They must've noticed people fleeing in droves to librewolf or floorp.
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only shipped it because of the backlash, they will quitely remove it eventually.
I'm already trying out LibreWolf on desktop and IronFox on mobile.
So far everything is working, probably another week of testing/using and then I'll just uninstall Firefox.
You can also disable ai via toggling browser.ml.enable to false on about:config. For now at least...
Firefox has had one hidden away in about:config since they started adding AI. Are they going to put it in the settings page now?
This made me switch to waterfox
I switched to LibreWolf when the privacy policy fiasco happened a while ago. It's funny how every few weeks Mozilla manages to demonstrate why I won't switch back.
The new CEO has also already lost me with this gem:
He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.
Even taking the statement at face value, it's unacceptable for it to just "feel off-mission". It should be a clear "no, never" instead of some wishy-washy answer.
But reading between the lines, such a statement is not just an off-the-cuff remark, but at best a threat to their users, and at worst a way to gauge the blowback of such a decision. They must have already taken it seriously enough to come up with the $150 million.
If I had to put up a number, I'd guess there's a 25+% chance that Firefox will drop Manifest V2 in the next few years.
The trust was lost when they said nonsense like "AI browser" as if that means anything concrete.
Just don't add the surveillance and spam features in the first place. 👍 Fuck off, Mozilla.
