I'm actually not all that opposed to some of these features, but the way it's implemented is so clunky. The UI make it feel like a half baked browser extension.
Disable AI in Firefox
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#42Personally, I do not mind it if it's on-device, especially small specialised models (e.g. overview generation, audio generation, etc) with no internet access.
In the long term, on-device won't save us from a biased assistant. It might notice we seem tired and insinuate that we could use Mococoa, all natural beans straight from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua.
Or—and this happens—it "summarizes" the same text differently, depending on whether the author's name happens to fit a certain ethnicity.
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#43I've used Firefox for 15 years and I really don't want to use Chrome. Can Mozilla just, like, make a good browser?
Use Brave. It’s de-googled, privacy-centric chromium with built-in uBlock-style ad/tracker blocking. Best of both worlds!
So much about Brave raises scammy red flags every time I look at it.
However, my main reason for ditching Chrome years ago was the fact that I think a browser engine monoculture is bad for the web as a whole, especially if that engine is primarily controlled by a single corporate entity.
Manifest v3 and other Google nonsense came later, and are extra reasons to stay away from Chrome, but I still feel strongly that a good alternative needs to use a different engine.
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#44I like seeing new features in Firefox even though I won't use nearly any of them. It indicates new ideas and investment into software that I very much want to continue to exist, that I use everyday.
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#45It looks like it should be possible to use a local model with a custom prompt.
Selecting text and having a action with a custom prompt/tool without needing a browser extension might be nice. It need not even be a llm.
https://nilsheuman.github.io/TIL/2025-04-17-custom-firefox-a...
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#46Feels like people making a big deal out of it. You can also just, you know, not use these features. I can't remember the last time I use the "Print" dialog, the "Manage bookmarks" or the "Homepage" button. But these things don't have AI in their name, so people aren't so obsessed with removing them.
IMHO just like many companies are obsessed with adding AI features, some users are obsessed with rejecting them. Both seem mostly senseless to me, especially when it's a local-first AI implementation.
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#47Why do people care? It's nice, been using it since Nightly. And you have to actually hook it up to a service for it to do anything. The toggle for the popup is in (as you might expect) the settings hamburger menu in the AI Panel. There's even a remove button! Lots of new things have been added to browsers over the years, and these AI features are becoming incredibly popular as more users recognize the utility (and wh…
> Why do people care?
It's clutter for a feature that I'm not going to use. I'm not upset it's there for those who want it, but it's also nice to be able to get rid of it.
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#48Not using firefox anymore. Uninstalled it few days ago. Switched to qutebrowser. It's not perfect, but hell I love using this browser.
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#49I should figure out how to turn off ai in acrobat reader. It offers to summarize my sheet music every time I open it...
Should be a bill of rights that you ask the chatbot how to disable it no it presents you a checkbox to permanently disable it and you click and you are done.
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#50I've used Firefox for 15 years and I really don't want to use Chrome. Can Mozilla just, like, make a good browser?
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?
The ad blocker keeps it viable.