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Disable AI in Firefox

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197 points speckx | 4 comments | 24 Oct 25 17:11 UTC | HN request time: 1.002s | source
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sdairs ◴[24 Oct 25 17:25 UTC] No.45696904[source]▶
I've used Firefox for 15 years and I really don't want to use Chrome. Can Mozilla just, like, make a good browser?
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yoavm ◴[24 Oct 25 17:40 UTC] No.45697106[source]▶
I think they make a pretty good browser. It is performant, supports blocking ads easily, standard compatible, customizable and recently even added support for vertical tabs. What are you missing?
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1. eviks ◴[24 Oct 25 18:43 UTC] No.45697789[source]▶
It's poorly customizable, you can't even change keyboard shortcuts (extensions can't do it globally either). Vivaldi is customizable.
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2. yoavm ◴[24 Oct 25 20:29 UTC] No.45698739[source]▶
I was mainly thinking about userChrome.css changes, which allow you to more or less rebuild the whole UI with code. Can't think of many other browsers that let you do that.
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3. eviks ◴[25 Oct 25 11:49 UTC] No.45703115[source]▶
Can you do vertical tabs in userChrome.css? Add tab groups/stacks/side-by-side views/workspaces/custom tab context menus?

(not to diminish the css, it's great for theming and correcting the many usability mistakes in browser defaults, and wish all the browsers used that)

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4. yoavm ◴[25 Oct 25 14:00 UTC] No.45703973{3}[source]▶
Vertical tabs are a native feature of Firefox for a few months now, and before that they were supported with an extension. userChrome.css was (then) used for hiding the original tabs.

I'm not sure what you mean with the context menus, but Web Extensions can add things to context menus.