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.
Same. This is easy for me and great for the best browser. Better late than never.
appreciate how it's not buried in the options; it's right in the main menu in the settings page.
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.
Disable the AI*
After all that's the only reason for a "killswitch", no?
where is the single user data collection and selling kill switch
"let me parrot what people say about chrome to ff"
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
Alternative interpretation: the CEO had the focus on pushing the imaginary game-changer and so the controls came later.
Better nate than the lever at least, especially when you look at chrome in comparison.
A Nate the Snake reference? Fsck yeahhhhhh
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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.
I'm just using the Firefox ESR client until its phased out.
Most forks use the ESR builds for stability. So if you ever want to switch one of those, the transition should be smooth.
I'm just using Zen. Has a ton of improved features and aesthetics.
Did they ever tackle all the data collection they introduced? iirc it was opt out not opt in
Nope.... And ads built in is still a thing
Where?
Sponsored stories, sponsored top shortcuts, even the weather is sponsored. There used to be an "off" switch directly in the NTP settings, but they pushed it into the settings menu.
They lost me already. I've migrated away from base Firefox.
The fact that they can’t find enough utility in AI to make people want to use it is telling.
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.
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