I didn't even know Firefox had AI features.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Albert’s suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

They should never have rolled out any of these AI features without this already implemented. I think it really speaks to their priorities that they rolled it out in this order.

I think it's a good thing: we complained and they listened. FF is far from being perfect and I'm definitely not a fan of some of the decisions they made recently, but it's still the best browser out there. It's great that there is forks but they are only possible if FF base keeps being updated.

There should never need to be a “kill switch” for a feature the developers have full control over.

Just make it opt-in. An AI kill switch makes me think that they’ve got a setting that will block all known AI interfaces and generated content, which is not what this does.

appreciate how it's not buried in the options; it's right in the main menu in the settings page.

I'm just using the Firefox ESR client until its phased out.

Did they ever tackle all the data collection they introduced? iirc it was opt out not opt in

The fact that they can’t find enough utility in AI to make people want to use it is telling.

Moz: We're an AI first browser. There's AI in everything now!

Everyone: Boooo *uninstalls*

Moz: We're not an AI first browser. We've added these control features so you can reduce the AI.

Too little, too late for me. I've already moved to Librewolf on everything with a GUI. Ironfox on my phone

As a Firefox user, this is not long-awaited. It's a tepid excuse for a dead project. The forks of Firefox are the only real alternatives if you value privacy over convenience. If you don't, then there are faster browers than FF anyway.

They lost me already. I've migrated away from base Firefox.

Alternative interpretation: the CEO had the focus on pushing the imaginary game-changer and so the controls came later.

this is cool to see, Mozilla is not being perfect, but its better than chromium still, personally using Zen because thats the best browser for me, if firefox dies, so does it, and I personally don't want that, this is a win, even if having it be opt out sucks

where is the single user data collection and selling kill switch

I've always seen "kill switch" being used in a negative tone, so with how the headline is written, it sounded like some AI feature that could kill the browser itself was implemented.

I'll use it, but I know that doing so will put me on some sort of asshole list and you will fuck me over.

And I'm fine with that DO IT put me in the alligator camp or whatever, I'm done and done

what's the fedi opinion of ung00g chromium flatpak these days

That's good, but it would be better still if AI was opt-in instead of opt-out.