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I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla (manualdousuario.net)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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"It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox."

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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Can I just take my Firefox Profile directory, and copy it over to LibreWolf? Does anybody know?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    Makes sense. But they change "just" the default settings, right? I would like to take over my existing profile if it works. To me it does not defeat the purpose, because I did a lot of custom tweaking to make it more private too. So from that perspective I am happy and that is not the reason why I change. I change because I'm fed up with the Ai integration of Firefox.

    Edit: But maybe its also time for a fresh start from scratch. And rethink every detail again. I am very hesitant to make the switch right now... but it has to be done.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    LibreWolf is just a patch set for Firefox. The user settings are stored in the profile folder, so if you just copy your old profile over, you will overwrite most of LibreWolf's changes. The about:support page contains a list of your changed about:config settings, so copy those down and move them over to your new LibreWolf profile as needed.

    Of course, you could also just disable the AI crap yourself in vanilla Firefox if you don't want to part with your current profile.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    It definitely works that way for Waterfox. LibreWolf has very stringent privacy-focused defaults (like disabling form autofill and purging history and cache on every browser close), so unless you want to manually find all those settings and about:configs you'll be overwriting with a migrated FF profile folder you're kinda defeating the main purpose of using LW over WF. Same for if you were gonna disable the potentially "annoying" privacy defaults in LW.

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