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In 2025, we rolled out one update after another, all aimed at making your browsing better — with more flow, speed, choice, and control over your informat

In 2025, we rolled out one update after another, all aimed at making your browsing better — with more flow, speed, choice, and control over your information and experience. Your window to the internet, whether on desktop, mobile, or across all your devices, has gotten an upgrade this year.

    • Atemu@lemmy.ml
      145·
      2 days ago

      I get the sentiment but it does not seem appropriate in this case‽

      2/14 features in the article are related to slop. The other 12 are actual, genuine improvements; some of them quite significant if you ask me.

      Blame where blame is due but please don’t forget to praise where praise is due too.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      the way i see it: all companies are being showered w money if they adopt AI somehow and mozilla could use it; i’m good w this keeping mozilla afloat for longer until the ai hype goes away.

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      41·
      2 days ago

      What AI did you get opted into?

      (As someone not particularly into AI, I’m happy to see that the majority of the features listed here are not AI, and many of them are actually useful. I love vertical tabs and tab groups.)

        • Vincent@feddit.nl
          51·
          2 days ago

          That just removes some buttons, but AFAICS no AI would have been running if you did not toggle those settings?

          • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
            21·
            2 days ago

            I don’t know what you are defending here. ML = “machine learning”. The first one enables or disables machine learning: a broad strokes API that plugs generative models into Firefox. It is the first step. Yes: a sidebar is innocuous. I still use it myself. However, I have the machine learning chat sidebar disabled so that they cannot shove whatever generative prompts, etc in my face based on their contractual agreement with Google.

            • Vincent@feddit.nl
              4·
              2 days ago

              I’m mostly questioning the statement that “opt in is missing”, as I haven’t needed to opt out of anything. The only ML that’s enabled for me is something I opted into, which implies that that’s not missing.