Fucking Christ the people that run Mozilla have brain worms. They are at the 10 yard line and just need to run it in, but they've tied their shoes together. Chrome enshitification is at light speed, and edge sucks and always sucked. All they have to do is the basics and they will become popular again.

...this might just push me onto a different browser. WHY?

JFC no one wants this, stop being shit.

I honestly don't see much of a future for Firefox with all the recent push towards becoming just another corporate slop browser. We already have enough of those.

Hello there! I see you're trying to read a website...

So is there an alternative to Firefox that works across devices and let's me run a decent adblocker?

They can't help themselves.

Why do they waste resources on AI?

The guys on late night Linux talked about this a while back. I don't think it's necessarily the right strategy for Firefox, but it's helpful context.

Basically, mozilla isn't doing this for us. We're already firefox people. They're don't it for other people, and corporations, who are not already ff users.

I can see how something like this could diminish barriers for non users.

For my own part I hope librewolf or some other fork excludes these features.

Can I just have one thing without a fucking chatbot?

So annoying how they can be champions of being a non Chrome-based alternative but miss the mark so fucking hard. They will alienate their active users and fail at attracting new ones at the same time.

Just straying further and further from their core focus. 🙄

Pre release samples of the avatar:

Oh wow been using FF for decades, and never quite put a finger on what's missing. Was it the impossibility to use conferencing software? 😀NO I WAS MISSING A PAGE BUDDY! 😀 Whoever is the PO of Firefox, fuck you

I've been using Firefox since it was resurrected from Netscape Navigator, but man... it feels more and more like they don't want me to use it.

WHY?

Fucking WHY? It's a fucking web browser! Do web browser things! Not shitty customer support things!

Thank god I use a fork of Firefox and not the base

stop pls we just want xul extensions not llms and chatbots

Too many Firefox users remember "Bonzai Buddy" for "Browser Buddy" to be a good name

Maybe if they actually prioritize wanted/long term features, they can actually raise user share.

I'm no dev but I'm bitter JS apps (as in Electron apps) only run Blink, no Gecko.

Safe bet, it's going to be opt-out not opt-in.

No matter what you think of Eich. The Eich era of Firefox/Mozilla was their golden years. I miss them.

I can tell. They’re certainly not working on making the browser faster.

I’ve been a Firefox guy as long as it’s been around, I’ve been shouting from the rooftops about how it’s faster since “quantum” was released. The last few releases have been sluggish and stuttery.

I recently had to switch to Chrome for a site that wouldn’t work correctly in Firefox. Chrome was incredibly snappy.

To be fair, I have a shitload of windows open with a shitload of tabs open in Firefox and I had like 3 tabs open in Chrome, two of which where like the “welcome” and “what’s new” built-ins

But uBlock Origin doesn’t work on Chrome anymore so, they can fuck off

I like the approach from duckduckgo, it's an option to open up, and keeps you anonymous.