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Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by PufPufPuf »

zenoprax wrote: post #302
j1436go wrote: post #300

I switched to LibreWolf, use uBlock Origin and have modified the web search so it uses noai.duckduckgo.com and appends -ai to every Google search query. I'm rather happy with this setup.

I wasn't aware of the "-ai" flags. Good to know. Do you have a preferred way of blocking domains from appearing in search results? I think there's a limit of only five for some reason.

That's not a real thing, just a side effect: AI "quick answers" don't appear when you use search operators. In this case, you are using the minus operator to filter results with the word "AI", which might not be desirable.

Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by PufPufPuf »

GoatInGrey wrote: post #369
baggachipz wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do you have a preferred way of blocking domains from appearing in search results? Paying for Kagi which lets you promote/demote/block domains to your heart's content.

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Yep, that's them. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_ka...

Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by sunaookami »

windowliker wrote: post #247
sunaookami wrote: post #224

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I wish we could also disable "Send via email" when right clicking a picture, I constantly misclick and userChrome.css does not work for the context menu on macOS since it's natively rendered...

> userChrome.css does not work for the context menu on macOS Putting: #context-sendimage { display:none!important; } in that file works for me.

Does not work on macOS, it uses native context menus that can't be styled via userChrome.css.

Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by setopt »

glitchc wrote: post #293
mfru wrote: post #243

Please let whoever steers Thunderbird development and road map also steer Firefox. Thunderbird is at the moment the pinnacle of user-centered, focused and down-to-earth development of open-source software.

I ended up switching over to Betterbird. It's easier to setup and more stable.

Does it work with the OWL extension?

Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by gkbrk »

HWR_14 wrote: post #325
gkbrk wrote: post #264

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> considering popular opinion there is absolutely no reason to enable it by default You need to update your priors. The popular opinion is there is a reason to enable it by default. ChatGPT is the #5 most popular website in the world, more popular than Wikipedia, Reddit or Twitter. The vast majority of users want to use AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites

And there is no YouTube, Facebook or Instagram (#2, #3, #4) default integration for Mozilla

Firefox has YouTube integration of course.

Here's a Firefox file [1] specifically for integrating YouTube videos into their picture-in-picture system. Your random video website won't get this treatment of course, need to be a popular one.

Here's a piece of C++ code [2] in the Firefox engine that specifically rewrites old YouTube embeds from their old HTML embed snippet to the new one. Again, your own video website will never be so deeply integrated into Firefox because it's not a top 10 website.

Firefox Readability mode makes pages more readable by removing useless stuff like videos. Unless it's a YouTube [3] or other top-N popular video website of course. YouTube videos are given special treatment because it's popular and having small integrations like this make the user experience better.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

[3]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by zargon »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #360
e40 wrote: post #337

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Why would you disable "dom.text_fragments.enabled"? Why "privacy.query_stripping.strip_on_share.enabled"? The latter, especially, seems helpful.

It strips query params used for tracking. Has it never bothered you when you click share on Instagram or YouTube and it inserts a unique-to-you "share ID" in the URL? I was burned by this once, now every time I copy a share URL from a social media platform I first paste it into my text editor and remove all of the privacy invasive tracking cruft. As an aside I think it's only matter of time before this is done withou…

You may be interested in the ClearURLs extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by baggachipz »

GoatInGrey wrote: post #369
baggachipz wrote: post #304

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> Do you have a preferred way of blocking domains from appearing in search results? Paying for Kagi which lets you promote/demote/block domains to your heart's content.

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The actual context, which I think frames it rather well:

> The job of a search engine is to produce the most relevant search results, period. Kagi excels at this precisely because we remain unimpressed by world politics. The moment 'politics' becomes a factor in search results is the moment I stop working on a search engine.

Yandex represents about 2% of our total costs and is only one of dozens of sources we use. To put this in perspective: removing any single source would degrade search quality for all users while having minimal economic impact on any particular region.

We set out to fix search, not the world. A truly useful search engine must be impartial - the same way Wikipedia strives for neutrality, or how a library doesn't curate books based on current political winds. Users deserve access to the best possible information, not information filtered through our political lens.

Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by TiredOfLife »

godelski wrote: post #371
TiredOfLife wrote: post #313

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Google doesn't sell my data. Mozilla does.

Google doesn't sell your data?! What are you even talking about?! Do you think Google doesn't have your data because you don't use chrome? Do you think Google doesn't gave your data because you don't use Google search? Do you think Google doesn't have your data because you don't use Android? Do you think Google doesn't have your data because you don't use Gmail? Do you think Google doesn't have your data because you…

Yes Google has my data, but they don't sell it. Mozilla has my data and sells it.

Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by hagbard_c »

brendoelfrendo wrote: post #335
blibble wrote: post #303

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the people still using a fat client are likely doing it because they don't like change edit: I say this MYSELF as a thunderbird user! I don't want an "new experience" every 9 months, and having to explain it to my parents

And I use a fat client because I like having all of my email addresses aggregate to one place, and I like it when that software gives me a modern look and feel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

All your mail in one place does not require a 'fat' client, something like Claws mail [1] (not in any way related to the recent LLM claws craze) can handle it without problems. Modern looks, well... it looks the way it looked about 25 years ago give or take a few iterations of GTK. Compact, efficient, to the point. If that's not your thing and you'd rather have large amounts of empty space and unrecognisable buttons it can be skinned to look 'modern'. In my startup sequence I launch 4 communications tools on one screen: gajim, telegram-desktop, signal-desktop and claws-mail in that order. Even though Claws gets launched last it appears first on screen because it is lightweight while the other three are anything but - Telegram is a native QT application, gajim is Python (nothing more needs to be said) and signal-desktop is Electron (even less needs to be said).

[1] https://www.claws-mail.org/

Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

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Post by sellmesoap »

vient wrote: post #154
godelski wrote: post #132

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I've read this three times now and still don't understand you. Do you think people don't update their software? Are you just counting every update as people happy about the kill switch? There'll be so much noise in that signal it'll be almost useless. You can't differentiate it from anything else. For all anyone knows it happened because the word Firefox was in the top story on hacker news

Approximately all people update Firefox so you don't need telemetry to count "AI disabled" installations, instead you can derive it as "updates requested" minus "AI enabled".

I can think if some mac users I know who deny all updates from being burned by feature creep and breakages in the past.
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