Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.

“It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox.”

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
    81·
    2 days ago

    The more AI is being pushed into my face, the more it pisses me off.

    Mozilla could have made an extension and promote it on their extension store. Rather than adding cruft to their browser and turning it on by default.

    The list of things to turn off to get a pleasant experience in Firefox is getting longer by the day. Not as bad as chrome, but still.

    • incompetent@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      Rather than adding cruft to their browser and turning it on by default.

      The second paragraph of the article:

      The post stresses the feature will be opt-in and that the user “is in control.”

      That being said, I agree with you that they should have made it an extension if they really wanted to make sure the user “is in control.”

    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
      30·
      2 days ago

      Oh this triggers me. There have been multiple good suggestions for Firefox in the past that are closed with nofix as “this can be provided by the community as an add-on”. Yet they shove the crappiest crap into the main browser now.

    • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Switching to de-Mozilla’d Firefox (Waterfox) is as simple as copying your profile folder from FF to WF. Everything transfers over, and I mean everything. No mozilla corp, no opting out of shit in menus at all.