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Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat) (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware

Librewolf - https://librewolf.net/

Waterfox - https://www.waterfox.com/

Zen Browser - https://zen-browser.app/

More browsers here - https://alternativeto.net/category/browsers/firefox-based/

You can also use this add to disable the shitload ai function in many search engines in one go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/

GitHub page - https://github.com/jruns/disable-ai

You can find all the links on Mastodon<

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[–] 42 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

The problem is that they're pushing it without any way for those of us who really don't want that crap to strip it out of the browser. I don't want all this ai garbage, never asked for it, and am harassed at every corner by every fucking company thinking it's somehow going to change the world.

Sure, Mozilla allows you to turn off some of these features, but I've already had it reenabled in updates after previously disabling it. Further, many of the settings are buried in about:config, which is not a user-friendly way to make those changes. At best, these functionalities should be opt-in and presented as addons that can be installed, rather than being a core part of the browser that cannot be removed.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It is opt in. Or will be. And they're adding an AI switch.

    Not disagreeing with you, just adding context.

    The bigger problem is that they're wasting their finite resources on this crap instead of adding actually cool features like their forks are doing.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    They keep saying their ai features will be opt-in, and yet everything they've rolled out so far is opt-out. I struggle to believe future 'features' will be any different. Maybe it's opt-in in the sense that I'm not required to click whichever button activates it, like whatever they added to the context menu, but that's not really what opt-in means and degrades my trust in Mozilla.

    I'm also frustrated by their seeming inability to focus on their core browser product and building a popular competitor to chromium browsers instead of going off on side quests.

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  • [+] -20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I do not want the dev tools and neither the Extension framework, can I get rid of those? No? Being able to completely disable the features is not enough how? How does the code laying bare on your harddisk get in your way of using FX? They already promised a kill-switch. And you saying it turned on after an update is but an anecdote.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    I feel like you're just here to piss into the wind.

    Do you hear people screaming to disable the extension frame work or devtools?

    No?

    If you don't want those features you can compile your own version of Firefox and remove them.

    But lots of people are anti-AI. And there are people willing to provide a browser that keeps it out.

    If you want it, have at it. But don't piss on people just because they don't.

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