I don't want AI in my browser. I've been a consistent Firefox user for years but this might make me switch to a fork.
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@omgubuntu@floss.social Who the hell needs AI to group tabs? It's so absurd!
This is why we can't have nice things.
@omgubuntu@floss.social Yay. More AI crap to turn off. Just what we needed. Thanks, Mozilla.
@omgubuntu@floss.social what is mozilla supposed to do? Inferencing is resource intensive by nature. Doing this in the cloud and users would complain about privacy. Not doing it at all and users would complain about Firefox feeling old and complicated
@omgubuntu@floss.social I can't wait for this bubble to pop. The suspense is killing me.
Here's the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1982278#c4
It does not appear to be caused by smart tab grouping (which you also have to actively enable yourself).
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Yeah it's been incredibly slow in macOS and Linux. Bitwarden has also been slow but I'm not sure if it's FF that's causing it. It's slowly becoming a bloated mess.
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@omgubuntu@floss.social Thankls, not noticed AI sneaked in. because i have the sidebar removed. AI and other sidebar stuff disabled in settings. And.. remove doffcourse that useless annoying sidebar again.
@omgubuntu@floss.social #SwitchToLibrewolf
@omgubuntu@floss.social Odd, this was disabled by default on mine. I had already started to wonder if they'd find a new way to cause grief.
I didn't realize it was out. I'm guessing it's a phased rollout with windows users being first in the test group? None of my linux machines have it enabled by default.
@omgubuntu@floss.social Since this upgrade, Firefox routinely crashes on startup and freezes once it does finally load. Takes about 5 minutes now just to open on my end.
@omgubuntu@floss.social THANK YOU! The last update made Firefox unusable even on my fairly capable desktop but I hadn’t figured out why.
'Running down battery life' over millions upon millions of devices is a massive energy suck.
It is not trivial.
@omgubuntu@floss.social Fucking Mozilla, man!
@omgubuntu@floss.social Well, better than running it on the cloud. Still, this is a great reason to switch to a firefox derivate like Librewolf or Floorp.
@omgubuntu@floss.social So good I've moved to Vivaldi recently 😌
#Vivaldi
@omgubuntu@floss.social I can only recommend switching to Firefox ESR. It's the same old Firefox, but without the monthly brain farts.
@omgubuntu@floss.social
Time to switch to vivaldi
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@omgubuntu@floss.social I'm so sick and tired of having to wade through about: config to disable poorly implemented stuff
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