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Re: Disable AI in Firefox

#101

Post by coldpie »

Y-bar wrote: post #96
coldpie wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I don’t store passwords in Firefox, nor do I use the ”Save page as”, I have never used the ”Report broken site” feature, and never activated ”Troubleshooting Mode”. I have never needed to configure network settings in my browser, and so on… As far as this discussion is concerned all these are bloat because they are not used. Seems like a strange yardstick to keep, when it cannot be properly applied, no?

I think it'd be cool to be able to remove those from the UI if you're not using them, yeah. For me personally, I find the Firefox UI is pretty streamlined, so suddenly seeing new right-click menu elements that I'm not going to use was a bit jarring and I'm glad there's a setting to remove them.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by mikae1 »

lucideer wrote: post #89
__fst__ wrote: post #62

Apart from the browser.ml.* config the newest update also adds and activates the @perplexity search shortcut. Deleted it in my config. I'm solely relying on DuckDuckGo.

> I'm solely relying on DuckDuckGo I've been fully on DDG for years but becoming slowly skeptical & looking for alternatives. 1. They're leaning heavily into "responsible AI", much like Mozilla 2. Might be just me but I feel like their algorithm became significantly worse recently. Over the years they've gone from being worse than Google in the early days to steadily improving & overtaking Google on quality (I made h…

https://startpage.com is a Google proxy instead of a Bing proxy (like DDG).

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by ekr____ »

__loam wrote: post #3

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It's important to realize that about:config flags aren't part of the official configuration interface, so there really aren't any guarantees about how the system will behave if you frob one. Generally, updates are designed so they don't interfere with things that are set from the official config interface (this is hard enough!) but a lot less care is taken with any other about:config settings.

Update: I think a much better complaint is that there's no official way to disable these features.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by roscas »

Still, don't forget to install uBlock Origin on Firefox. If you don't have a Pi-hole, considerer installing one. If you use Windows (or android/ios/macos), there is no way MicroDollar won't know what you do or go, even if you have a VPN it still goes around the VPN. But if you use Linux, install OpenSnitch so you can control some other nasty connections.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

#106

Post by eviks »

dingaling wrote: post #68
latexr wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally (I’m not the person you asked) I’m missing AppleScript support. Firefox is the only major browser without it, and the bug report for it is old enough to drink in every country. That lack of capability prevents it from being my daily driver, even if the rest were good enough (I’m not saying it isn’t, I’m saying I have no reason to find out). I am certain I have inadvertently pushed many people away from Fir…

MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD and everything else squeeze into just 15% of Firefox's user base. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware They're really not going to be able to dedicate resources to something as bijou as AppleScript.

Given how much resources they've dedicated to lower %, this is not true

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by smartbit »

The Firefox Chat window doesn't allow running a LLM is a different container. At least I couldn't find a way, tried several plugins but failed. Now running my LLM of choice just like the author inside a pined & containerized tab.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

#108

Post by eviks »

yoavm wrote: post #37
sdairs wrote: post #5

I'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?

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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