Meanwhile I still do not have the option to change/create the profile from menu. I kow about about:profiles but I dont have this: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/profile-management/
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
#222I don't know...at one point I got off Firefox because it was slow and I was never able to get back to it ever again. Maybe I should try now?
After I upgraded my laptop (Ryzen 2700 => 8845HS) it has felt as though Firefox is much closer to Chrome.
While I do not think that the gap narrowed when measured in CPU-cycles, it's just not very noticable when Firefox doesn't feel slow.
Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
yet another chromium clone iirc.
It's basically ungoogled-chromium with manifest v2 support. Chromium is just technically superior than Firefox. It's a simple fact. The problem is the telemetry and AI features they added in it, which Helium or ungoogled-chromium doesn't have.
>It's a simple fact
I'd love to hear why you say this.
Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
#224In addition to completely disabling AI, I found the following setting extremely convinent to disable in about:config. They clutter up my right-click on a link or on text selection. browser.translations.select.enable dom.text_fragments.enabled privacy.query_stripping.strip_on_share.enabled devtools.accessibility.enabled Now if only I could get rid of "Print selection" and "Services" when right-clicking, too (on MacOS)
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...
Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
#225What an absolute dystopia when disabling AI is considered a "feature". Obviously the _enabling_ of it should be the "feature" if anything, and considering popular opinion there is absolutely no reason to enable it by default.
Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
#226At this point, the industry wide decision to have AI as opt-out is suspicious. Why not have an AI opt-in default? It would certainly save so much trouble from the Luddites. On the other hand, an AI opt-in default would be not using any technology at all (where opting in would be turning on your computer or device) under a dictionary definition of artificial intelligence.
Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox mentions the following ones: "- Translations, which help you browse the web in your preferred language. - Alt text in PDFs, which add accessibility descriptions to images in PDF pages. - AI-enhanced tab grouping, which suggests related tabs and group names. - Link previews, which show key points before you open a link. - AI chatbot in the sidebar, which lets you use your chosen chatbot as you browse, includin…
I wonder what sort of user testing made them decide that what Firefox users really need is a chat bot in the site bar. Isn't a chat bot in a tab good enough? And calling translation "AI" seems like deceitful retroactive rebranding. Why is machine translation suddenly "AI" now ? It was never branded as such before. Is "AI" here just used to mean machine learning?
"AI" is a term which means a dozen things and has changed a dozen times. It's about as meaningful a signifier as "smart".
If I were to draw a line, I'd say AI is anything with a transformer model powering it.
As exhausted by 'AI' as I am, translation is one of the things neural networks (and especially transformers) have been constantly improving SOTA on.
Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
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Disabling the local spell checker when one disables AI is just malicious compliance.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
They all seem like great features.
On paper yes. The problem is that they clutter the UI, they trigger at weird times and they turn out to be less useful that they may appear. Then there's also people, like me, who just want the browser to browse the web. I don't want link preview (annoying feature), Firefox isn't my PDF viewer, I don't have that many tabs that I need to group them and I don't use AI chatbots. So having a single button to disable all…
You might like Konform Browser. Optional features like that disabled with the nag removed (but local ones can still be enabled in preferences).
Re: Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I wonder what sort of user testing made them decide that what Firefox users really need is a chat bot in the site bar. Isn't a chat bot in a tab good enough? If it wasn't because I find myself using the AI-sidebar all the time I would probably have shared your opinion. I guess it's just quite convenient to have it separated from the "regular" tabs and their history.
Then you can install an AI extension.
You were saying:
> I wonder what sort of user testing made them decide that what Firefox users really need is a chat bot in the site bar
I answered:
> If it wasn't because I find myself using the AI-sidebar all the time I would probably have shared your opinion.
Perhaps they did actually test it. Perhaps the majority is like me and find it useful.
> Then you can install an AI extension.
As mentioned I didn't know that I'd like this feature. I wouldn't have reached for such an extension.
It's obvious that you don't want this functionality - which you can now easily disable. What if the majority of the users actually like this? Or the majority either like it or are not the slightest bothered by it? Is it not a good addition overall then?