Post #70920 · Elektrine

Very unfortunate development, which seems par for the course from Mozilla these days. I’m jumping ship. Which browser would y’all recommend at this point? Preferably something I can get on android as well as linux.

Open ##71011

@AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2025-12-16 21:36

WE. DON’T. WANT. THIS. Mozilla, for the love of god, stop cramming AI into the browser when the vast majority of your users just want a privacy-respecting browser that works. I’ve said it before, and I’ve said it again: I will not donate any more money to the Mozilla foundation until they stop cramming AI into everything, and you should too.

Open ##71017

@MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 2025-12-16 21:40

I’ll consider using Mozilla once Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is fired or fucks off. My decision has been rammed through in the exact same uncaring and unilateral way that Tony wants to ram AI down Mozilla users throats.

Open ##71031

@Soulphite@reddthat.com 2025-12-16 21:46

Yall saw Microsoft push stupid Copilot on everyone and fail miserably and said, “hold my beer!” Bros, take the hint! No one wants AI bullshit. Firefox was the goto switch when Google Chrome was using 37 processes and 98% memory for one website… yall are fuckin up!

Open ##71055

@Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 2025-12-16 21:49

How long until the forks get deprecated? Is that even a possibility? I don’t really know what goes into making this but I would imagine if it depends on some chunk of the mozilla source code, eventually it will be out of sync with the major releases or current browser standards. What does that mean for the TOR browser since its based on firefox right? I ask that as someone moving from firefox to libre/waterfox.

Open ##71063

@puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 2025-12-16 22:17

The AI browsers took my Arc they better leave my Zen Browser TF alone with these shenanigans.

Open ##71176

@meejle@lemmy.world 2025-12-16 22:18

Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it. Come on, this isn’t Reddit, at least skim the article before you start with the performative outrage.

Open ##71178

@bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2025-12-16 22:19

Ok so where do I go? Waterfox?

Open ##71182

@bridgeenjoyer__dup_8898@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-16 22:51

Make sure you keep a list of all of these companies pushing ai bullshit. When the bubble pops, do not go back to them, do not give them anything, fuck them for being greedy idiots I will gladly support initiatives that are anti-ai.

Open ##71319

@ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 2025-12-16 23:04

If you’re going to add AI shit it should be something people can easily turn on. It should be off by default.

Open ##71374

@boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 2025-12-16 23:33

I said it before but they are really excelling at alienating their users in (failed) attempts at attracting new ones. It pains me to see, I don’t want to use chromium, but there is a limit…

Open ##71474

@orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-16 23:47

Waterfox. LibreWolf. Fennec. Just use a fork; rawdogging Firefox is already a bit crazy.

Open ##71530

@hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-17 00:35

Just use a folk of it at this point. Zen, Floorp, Waterfox, LibreWolf, Fennec, and IronFox.

Open ##71707

@frunch@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 01:04

I’ve been using Firefox for longer than i can remember. That said, I’m ready to make the leap if necessary. What’s the next browser to succeed Firefox? Suggestions??

Open ##71798

@GaryGhost@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 01:12

I switched to chromium, I think its bug free

Open ##71829

@raldone01@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 01:45

I just found out about this on mobile firefox must be quite new too. That opt in is really disgusting.

Open ##71933

@SlackerPreface57@feddit.online 2025-12-17 03:04

Remember the way to disable all AI in Firefox. about:config browser.ml.enable -> false

Open ##72188

@Stern@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 03:33

“Company does AI bullshit, fails miserably.” Countdown to the part of the headline after the comma.

Open ##72232

@OscarRobin@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 04:05

Like many others, I switched away recently after years of Mozilla’s constant suckery. Fed up with dealing with their constant terrible decisions.

Open ##72311

@flamiera@kbin.melroy.org 2025-12-17 04:07

Firefox Fanboys; "LEST IT NOT CHROME!!" they'll cry. Yes I will always take any and all jabs at Firefox fanboys over issues with Firefox because they've drank the kool-aid. LibreWolf and Floorp is better.

Open ##72319

@sep@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 06:02

As long as there is a easy way to disable it. And clearly communicated what they are doing. I do not begrudge mozilla trying to remain competitive with mainstream.

Open ##72577

@ms_lane@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 06:37

Over to Waterfox then. I don’t care if there is a way to ‘disable it’ (there won’t be) - if it’s there, it not on my PC.

Open ##72652

@sonofearth@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 06:50

As long as it is open source, it doesn’t matter. Forks like Librewolf will disable it.

Open ##72699

@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2025-12-17 06:50

When talking about it earlier, they mentioned the integrated AI would be local-only… Which sounds better, but I doubt is even possible (imagine all the low-end devices attempting to generate a response or analyse the website on their 6-8-year old CPUs…).

Open ##72702

@CAVOK@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 06:58

They’re going to use AI to identify and block ads for me, right? Or let me set a cookie preference and automatically apply that to every page I visit? That would be rather useful things to have AI for IMHO.

Open ##72716

@punrca@piefed.world 2025-12-17 07:18

Just why? AI browsers have serious security/privacy implications. For e.g: 1. https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/ 2. Blog series: https://brave.com/series/security-privacy-in-agentic-browsing/

Open ##72764

@gtr@programming.dev 2025-12-17 08:07

Open ##72884

@Fokeu@lemmy.zip 2025-12-17 08:33

Thank god for librewolf, they fix most of the new Mozilla bullshit.

Open ##72943

@jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2025-12-17 11:27

Well, older news is: “Firefox has evolved into the first thing I uninstall when I install Fedora, or any other Linux distro for that matter”. Since the first mention of their so-called “anonymous telemetry” I began to actively avoid them. Like someone else mention, thank God for Librewolf, Mullvad and Brave (with Leo disabled).

Open ##73260

@clot27@lemmy.zip 2025-12-17 11:36

Come on servo

Open ##73292

@Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-17 12:11

Yeah this ain’t it chief. Hope we can nuke the feature into oblivion, but we all know that won’t be possible as Firefox enshittifies

Open ##73365

@xartle@reddthat.com 2025-12-17 12:59

I don’t think anyone actually read the announcement, just the headline. Here was the new CEOs actual first point. “First: Every product we build must give people agency in how it works. Privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. People should know why a feature works the way it does and what value they get from it.”

Open ##73462

@sturmblast@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 13:13

Well, goodbye Firefox… running out of browser options…

Open ##73501

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