Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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Post by LopRabbit » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:01 AM UTC

Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"
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Re: Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"

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Post by camillomiller » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:31 AM UTC

Well, that’s terrible. And honestly a quite ill-informed bet that could destroy Firefox’s reputation.

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Post by hx8 » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:38 AM UTC

This is dumb, not because the idea is particularly bad, but because the idea is not something that benefits from Firefox's current market position.

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Post by kennywinker » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:39 AM UTC

Yikes. I do not want this.

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Post by al_borland » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:41 AM UTC

I’m not sure he knows the type of person that actually uses Firefox.

> Enzor-DeMeo says it is important that AI features in Firefox are “something people can easily turn off”.

It seems like it should be opt-in instead of opt-out. At the very least, ask up front, and have a single switch to make it like it’s not there at all.

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Post by ccakes » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:44 AM UTC

I use Firefox personally, where do people who care about privacy go? For those of you who’ve already given up on Firefox (I can understand why..), where did you go?

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Post by gkhartman » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:44 AM UTC

Welp, I guess Firefox forks are gonna get a lot more users in the near future. Hopefully turning off the ai features will be an available option as mentioned, but hopefully they'll be off by default.

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Post by pdpi » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:44 AM UTC

At this point, is there any full-featured browser that is neither Blink-based nor burdened by a metric tonne of junk? With the way Firefox is going, Safari might well be the sole survivor, which is not a state of affairs I'm particularly happy with.

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Post by airstrike » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:48 AM UTC

I've been on Firefox for decades and I'm 100% ready to jump ship.

Tried Zen today and it didn't feel right—felt too much like it wanted to be Arc but ended up a bit frankenstein-y in the process.

Open to suggestions that aren't Arc or Brave, if anyone has them!

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Post by taurath » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:50 AM UTC

Well folks, there's very few places to go now.