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Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by latexr »

yoavm wrote: post #119
latexr wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just so we’re on the same page, you use AppleScript outside the browser, but it interacts with the browser. Some basic use cases: - Change to first browser tab whose URL or title matches . - Close every browser tab matching . - Grab all your tabs and backup their URLs to a file. - Join all tabs from all windows into a single window. - Execute JavaScript on a page and get results back. - Grab the URL of the current ta…

Got it. Last time I attempted to do this kind of things, I used TabFS ( https://github.com/osnr/TabFS ). I think you might like it!

That requires installing a third-party tool which doesn’t look to be under development, and is an entirely different interaction. Thank you, but that’s not adequate.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by frm88 »

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…

For now you can still try noai.duckduckgo.com - not sure it will stay, but it still works.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by jerhewet »

stronglikedan wrote: post #9

Didn't entirely work for me. I still had the little popup when I selected text, even after restarting. However, it did go away and stay away when I selected "hide chatbot..." at the bottom of the popup.

about:config, type ".ml." in the search (no quote marks), set everything to false / zero / blank.

I don't want anything even vaguely related to spicy autocomplete on any of my machines, and I go to great lengths to kill anything that even resembles it with fire.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by estimator7292 »

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #15
dotcoma wrote: post #2

Disable AI, disable targeted ads... What's wrong with you, Firefox ?

In their defense, they're in a bit of a precarious financial situation. Most of their money comes from Google, who happens to also be their largest competitor.

Maybe they shouldn't pay their CEO a sizable fraction of the entire company's income and also stop wasting money on AI bullshit and gimmicks like Pocket or whatever their latest obsession is.

Maybe they'd be in a better position if they focused their resources on building their core product? I know that's a wildly radical concept these days...

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by IT4MD »

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?

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Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by ZenoArrow »

latexr wrote: post #39
ZenoArrow wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Time to switch to Waterfox, it's basically Firefox with the privacy features that Firefox should have by default: https://www.waterfox.net/

That doesn’t address the larger complaint your parent commenter is making that Mozilla dropped the ball on Firefox development.

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.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by move-on-by »

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?

Longtime Firefox user here too. After the new privacy policy terms, I jumped to waterfox. I’m hoping it can last long enough for Ladybird to become stable enough to use as a daily driver. It’s very sad to watch Mozilla’s demise at the hands of advertisers.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by krackers »

latexr wrote: post #87
yoavm wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! The last time I used a Mac was many years ago, so I'm not sure what would you do with AppleScript in the browser. What are some example use cases?

Just so we’re on the same page, you use AppleScript outside the browser, but it interacts with the browser. Some basic use cases: - Change to first browser tab whose URL or title matches . - Close every browser tab matching . - Grab all your tabs and backup their URLs to a file. - Join all tabs from all windows into a single window. - Execute JavaScript on a page and get results back. - Grab the URL of the current ta…

Just wait until someone has the bright idea to expose Apple Events over an MCP server or something. Then everyone will be scrambling to integrate applescript into their applications so they can cash in on the computer-use model craze.

Re: Disable AI in Firefox

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Post by imiric »

latexr wrote: post #87
yoavm wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! The last time I used a Mac was many years ago, so I'm not sure what would you do with AppleScript in the browser. What are some example use cases?

Just so we’re on the same page, you use AppleScript outside the browser, but it interacts with the browser. Some basic use cases: - Change to first browser tab whose URL or title matches . - Close every browser tab matching . - Grab all your tabs and backup their URLs to a file. - Join all tabs from all windows into a single window. - Execute JavaScript on a page and get results back. - Grab the URL of the current ta…

Those are browser automation tasks. Most of them can be done with Playwright/Puppeteer/Selenium.

I don't see why a browser should have to support AppleScript specifically. The Chrome DevTools Protocol and WebDriver BiDi are the standard protocols for interacting with browsers programmatically. Firefox supports WebDriver BiDi. Just use any tool that supports it, or talk to it directly. Maybe AppleScript can do that, I wouldn't know.

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