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Disable AI in Firefox

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197 points speckx | 1 comments | 24 Oct 25 17:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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porphyra ◴[24 Oct 25 17:29 UTC] No.45696986[source]▶
Mozilla could have had the no-nonsense, high performance browser backend that everyone uses to build their own browsers (like the recent glut of AI browsers), instead of everyone using Chromium/Blink. In the past, Gecko was really the go-to choice for this. They almost had a second shot with Servo. But they kinda really dropped the ball on the technical capability of the browser while continuing to be distracted by all sorts of random gimmicks like Pocket and then this. Sad!
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ZenoArrow ◴[24 Oct 25 17:36 UTC] No.45697055[source]▶
Time to switch to Waterfox, it's basically Firefox with the privacy features that Firefox should have by default:

https://www.waterfox.net/

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latexr ◴[24 Oct 25 17:42 UTC] No.45697128[source]▶
That doesn’t address the larger complaint your parent commenter is making that Mozilla dropped the ball on Firefox development.
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1. ZenoArrow ◴[24 Oct 25 21:29 UTC] No.45699292[source]▶
It partially addresses it, because it shows there's a way to save the software Mozilla develops from itself. In other words, I couldn't give a damn if Mozilla keeps misunderstanding it's market if there are open source forks of its software that undoes Mozilla's bad decisions and keeps the parts worth keeping. I'm not sentimental about Mozilla, Mozilla can continue to become irrelevant as long as competition in the browser space continues. New funding models can be developed to support forks of Firefox.