Please make AI disappear altogether until I want it. No pop-ups, no floating "Help me..." in fields, no spinning flashing icons on toolbars. I submit feedback on all products that do this that I would like a way to turn it all off. AI is useful when I want it, otherwise it's just annoying and gets in my way.
I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
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Re: I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am a regular Firefox user; it is literally the tool I use most often during my working hours. I like it more than Chrome. Firefox is steadily losing market share, and any attempts to do something about it are met with negativity. The 2-4% of users who use it care about their privacy. But they are not being deprived of it; the AI tab is optional, and no one is removing the regular tab. (Of course, it would be better…
I've had to stop using FF as my development browser because it chokes on large source maps. I used to find lots of issues in our web app that were only ever tested on chromium browsers. I don't anymore because the devtools are unusable past a certain point.
Can you please file a bug on Mozilla's bug tracker? They are usually quite responsive on well-documented dev related bugs - especially ones around edge-cases related to fundamentals like resource allocation.
You'd be doing a good thing that would help others.
Re: I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
#493Got to hold on just for a few more months until Ladybird release. Servo, hopefully will be still catching up. Worst case scenario - move to Dillo.
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#494Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I don't really see the value proposition in being able to load and serve you ads faster, compared to a browser with a proper ad blocker.
The average user does not care about ads being present. Speed is paramount .
Shouldn't getting rid of all the ads make things notably faster?
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#495I use AI in Firefox all the time. Obviously it seems like I'm in a minority. * I summarize articles. * When I need more context to understand an article, I ask AI what I'm missing. * When I'm writing up something important, I ask AI to proofread it for me. * When I'm using productivity web apps, I ask AI to help me learn the features. * When I'm filling out convoluted forms, I ask AI what the writer could have possib…
> The Mozilla team seems to have struck a perfect balance with that so far, even going so far as to add "turn this off permanently" options directly in every AI-related shortcut and menu. It's weird that so few people point this out and instead go straight to about:config. I don't use LLMs and I think too that is the best approach they could take: those that want to use AI can, and those that never want it can disabl…
How about it leaving it disabled and letting me enable it immediately if/when I choose.
Re: I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
#496why not AI integrations that are not built-in but rather externalized like LSP?
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#497Earlier quoted context omitted.
You didn't even read 6 sentences into TFA. 52/52 of the closed-beta testers of this feature want it removed.
that doesn't matter, grandma isn't a beta tester. I can tell you first-hand a lot of people are installing these ai browsers, even in enterprise environments. You get ahead of it or get left behind.
Statistics disagrees with you to such a degree that this statement ignores reality. If you poll 52 people, and you get 52 identical results, even with population bias, you're done. If there was a mix of "yes" and "no", less so, but 100% "no" after 50+ samples is statistically damning. Because remember: the bias is towards people who care about Firefox enough to post in an official forum, so that's the core audience, representing the existing user base that you're going to piss off if their poll result is a unanimous "no".
So unless Mozilla thinks losing part of their existing user base over this is fine because they can attracting enough new users with AI to compensate then this result should be all the evidence they need that this is the wrong direction.
Firefox hasn't been relevant in the larger browser space for years now, it's a "nice that it exists" for a niche audience. It used to be the poweruser's browser, but that got axed. It used to be the privacy browser but insanely Safari now fills that roll. So what's left? Either you play to what strengths Firefox still has, or you have a management layer composed entirely of ex-Facebookers that are coming up with nonsense ideas that are just going to make Firefox fall off the map completely.
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#498The only people who want AI in anything are AI companies...
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#499Speak for yourself, I do want to see Mozilla experimenting with new features and functionality opened up by new technology. Politically motivated technological stagnation is little more than a slow death, Mozilla should at least be trying new things. And yes, they will get some of it wrong. It's new technology, nobody really knows how to use it yet. Mozilla should be on the forefront of figuring it out.
Problem is, a chatbot sidebar isn't something new to try, it's a tired dead-end idea that never delivered any value to the multiple competitors that tried the exact same thing.
Firefox's implementation of a chatbot sidebar is especially cookie-cutter because it just plugs into existing LLM APIs, it doesn't make use of local AI the way the alt text generator and local machine translation features do. What were they thinking?
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#500Firefox somehow fell into the hole of feature-pack in an effort to save itself. Firefox instead desperately needs to focus on making it a high performance browser that people enjoy using for..... browsing . They can start with fixing the spell check, which is hilariously awful for 2008. And we are in 2025. Signed, a 20 year user.
I wish they rely more on OS features, like the built-in, system-wide spell check. I know it's a bigger task for them, since Firefox runs on multiple OSes, but maybe it's worth it. It dreads me how “un-macOS” Firefox feels, and I guess this feeling extends to Windows, Linux and elsewhere.
In Windows-land everything is so inconsistent that it doesn’t really stand out like it does on MacOS.
97% of Windows users wouldn’t notice if it followed OS conventions and the remaining 3% would complain that it was following the current conventions instead of copying Word 2003 :)