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Name some default Firefox settings you think don't make sense. (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I'll start: Opening new tabs all the way to the right or bottom, rather than next to the current tab. Its especially disorienting on vertical tabs, I lose track of which (I changed the setting but its still annoying on blank Firefox profiles).

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[–] 27 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

Any and all AI shite enabled by default rather than the opposite with a prompt asking me if I want to enable it

There’s a toggle to disable all of it with a single click, why do I need to go fishing for it?

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

    And why isn't it extensions?

    Who exactly do they think are the 2-4% of people who use Firefox? How big is the intersection of Firefox users, and users who want to use LLMs but don't want to gargle Microsoft AI or Gemini integrated Chrome?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    You can get an idea what interests the users here, on the platform made to collectively request features.

    New ideas

    #3: Put the AI stuff into an optional add-on

    Trending ideas

    #6: integrate Ublock Origin directly into Firefox
    #8: Firefox ad-blocking in iOS Firefox

    The top rated extensions asking for AI have lower ratings, the biggest one came after AI was already integrated and was just a request to make it easier to get, and they've all been fulfilled... despite being much more recent than larger more popular requests

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    They’re doing it to try to gain market share. Anyone who wants to see those features aren’t going to install an addon for that.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Anyone who wants those features is already using a different browser. Mozilla is arriving late, handicapped by promises of "ethics," and unable to advertise themselves except by practically apologizing for doing it

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