- cross-posted to:
- firefox@fedia.io
- cross-posted to:
- firefox@fedia.io
“Mozilla has been adding in llm & ai related features to Firefox for a while, enabling them by default without asking the user… The main problem with this is users are having this forced on them with no gui option to disable these features.”
Article contains instructions for disabling the LLM through about:config.
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I really wish they wouldn’t. Firefox is one of the last good browsers.
It’s the last good browser base but all the good browsers nowadays are forks of that base.
Hopefully something other than Ladybird comes to take it’s place so we aren’t so reliant on Mozilla in the future…
Ladybird doesn’t have any real financial power. If Firefox dies, so does every fork… And have a little faith in Mozilla. Just a little - not blind, just a little.
There’s the Servo browser, which has a lot more going for it than Ladybird.
Yeah that’s fair.
Why do you say other than ladybird?
The ladybird team is one of those “we don’t respect people’s identity and sexuality because we don’t do politics” type of people. Also racists.
Because we need a lot less fascists and their software in the tech space.
Nitter Link & Bigger writeup on it
For those that don’t mind local AI, there’s a setting that uses localhost:8080 as ai endpoint. You can throw open-webui, or ollama/others at that port.
I would think most non technical users would just use a different browser.
Not only them. I’m tired boss.
Mozilla Corp making sure they alienate even their 10 remaining users…
disable llm & ai related features in firefox.
I’m not going through that. sudo apt -y purge firefox*
What do you use instead?
Not the gp but I started using LibreWolf last year after my camel’s back was broken by Mozilla Corp shenanigans, I am very grateful for it
Unfortunately, at the moment, we can’t trust Mozilla and by extension with AI items so these things were removed.
https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/1919#issuecomment-4988409
I used librewolf and waterfox as well for a bit, until I noticed that were lagging behind on updates.
Now I just run vanilla Firefox auth arkenfox.js user prefs. Disables everything you’d want out of the box
LibreWolf is an option, but there’s also some curated user.js alternatives for Firefox, like BetterFox.
I’ve tried LibreWolf, and liked it, but I had to work backwards to get it going and even then, a lot of websites I need to use just don’t work well. For now, I’m just using my own user.js, adding stuff as I go.
there’s many forks that have the stuff turned off by default like Librewolf and Floorp
I personally use Qutebrowser. there’s many better options than straight up Firefox.
Thanks everyone. I will look into using Librewolf. I’m still on Firefox because there is a Debian LTS package so it’s the path of least resistance. There doesn’t seem to be a Librewolf package in the standard repo so I’ll have to check a bit further.
Well, you don’t have to use them. So they can’t force you to use Ai features.
This is true. Statistically, people are choosing not to use Firefox…
Kind of the opposite of forcing. Some people want it, I don’t agree with them, but better to not lose them to chrome.
But srsly Firefox nags me more about PWAs and tab groups than AI.
