Mozilla has a new CEO. Once again iterating that the future of Firefox is AI first, AI by default:
"Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software"
"It will evolve into a modern AI browser"
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."
Source: blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/le…
Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company
Today, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation, focusing on becoming the trusted software company.Rebecca Smith (The Mozilla Blog)
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Sarah Jamie Lewis
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •Mozilla insist that people trust them. I assume they have insight and metrics that reinforce that view.
Perhaps I am getting old and this truly is the only path forward to maintain an independent browser.
I continue to feel that this is a terrible idea that has likely irrevocably jeopardized the future of firefox and, by extension, the open web.
Sarah Jamie Lewis
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •The overhead of disabling every single AI-first change in Firefox is already starting to weigh on firefox-forks.
My view on this hasn't really shifted in the last few months: unless an existing organization, with strong principles, steps forwards and commits to a hard fork I don't really see a future for Firefox.
(I think there are probably only 1-2 orgs with the combination of experience / maturity to actually pull that off, and none of them seem to be even considering that kind of future)
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slowtiger
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •Oh yes. "Es nervt."
(would it be possible to write an add-on which does this with a single button?)
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in reply to slowtiger • • •The Firefox devs aren't going to expose to add-ons the API to turn off AI, so the functionality would need to be implemented in an experimental API. Those can't be installed via addons.mozilla.org and can only be installed transiently for debugging, or in the Nightly or Developer Edition builds of Firefox. Ref: firefox-source-docs.mozilla.or…
API Implementation Basics — Firefox Source Docs documentation
firefox-source-docs.mozilla.orgTim Chambers
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •Caden
in reply to Tim Chambers • • •Tim Chambers
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in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •Violet Madder
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •It's not merely a "terrible idea".
Firefox as an effective, more ethical alternative is being deliberately destroyed.
Jonathan Kamens 86 47
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦
in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47 • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •1. Spyware
2. Enshittification of Search
3. State surveillance
4. An energy & water hog
5. Election interference
6. Funded by the most corrupt industry on the planet
7. A violation of privacy
8. A way to balloon utility rates
9. A path to mass layoffs
10. A way to suppress wages
11. A bubble