Oh screw the frick out of this.

I knew Mozilla would wreck Firefox, but I thought we'd at least have a bit more time. Servo isn't really fully here yet and not really a daily driver yet and Chromium is probably going to do the same crap.

We just needed a bit more time before their brains popped and they went full on brain slug stupid. We were so close!

I guess we'll have to rely on forks to completely take over making a browser now. That's... beyond the scope of most forks and their already overworked devs.

Frick this.

Another dumb ass from the AI cult.

Firefox is officially signing it's death certificate.

it's @servo and #ladybug call, now or never at open web will be dead if they don't

Plug for @Vivaldi as the only browser I know of with no AI (not even opt-in)

And @StartpageSearch as the search engine with no AI

Hello @Vivaldi Warm up, you're up next

(as my browser)

Another Mozilla Bullshit statement.

They already purchased an advertizing company to diversify revenue.

Firefox will evolve in to a modern AI, Artificially Idiotic Browser.

We will grow through transparent monetization, well that would be a real big change, and as for trust, look at the market share, it reflects the perfect management work from Leech Mitchel Baker.

She managed to take millions while weakening the product and sacking developers.

Trust, ha ha ha

WHAT THE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

BURN TO HELL FIREFOX'S CEO !!!!!!!!!

I'm almost impressed at the "monetization that people value" line. That's some high-level verbal effluence that is.

I might understand your monetization, I might even in some cases accept it, but money going from me to you is never something I _value_, and I'm at least 78% certain that I count as "people".

Mozilla, I don't want AI in Firefox.

I don't want AI in the app I use for banking.

I don't what AI in the app I use for shopping.

I don't want AI in the app I use to contact my health care providers.

I don't what AI in the app I use to contact insurers.

I don't want AI in search results.

Seriously, Moz, what the hell you you think people use Firefox to do? I don't need it to perform party tricks!

The browser will soon have an updated name.

Farfetched.

The real gist of why it's OK for Firefox to implement AI in the browser: (unfortunately) most people using Google Chrome expect this nowadays and will find the browser lacking "smart" features when they make that switch. Think about how average John uses their browser.

A few years back, my first small step into fully embracing FOSS for my digital life was Firefox, and this step very low-key because Firefox didn't differ that much functionally from Chrome. This is important.

I really hate migrating from app to app not that I’m unfamiliar with the process, but the day is coming, where I have to move to a different browser.

I’m fine with Safari on my Apple iPad because it’s too much hassle otherwise but on the desktop, I’m gonna have to find something different than Firefox

Mozilla's new "CEO" has an MBA, but no open source experience. His goal is to transform the most popular independent browser into a platform for AI. And to "diversify" into the realm "beyond search." Things none of its current users want.

He's Mozilla's board's answer to the question of how stupid does it think its user base is.

There's a reason Toby the Devil welcomes so many new entrants to hell. But this guy will start a whole new category. Fuck him.

"It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions"

Another company which thinks that's needed to rule the world.
People want a trustworthy browser which does exactly that: browse. Nothing more. Certainly not a bunch of crappy AI infested eco system apps nobody needs, like Microsoft or Google.

But i guess the managers know better than the users. Well they'll learn about that when everybody leaves.

i heard that mozilla corporation is basically investment company for tech stuff, and most tech stuff these days is probably ai slop bull poo.

so maybe, mozilla does not go after what they are invested in, therefore they put this ai slop non-sense into mozilla products.

mozilla corporation is different than mozilla non-profit organization.

it feels like that mozilla is replacing alphabet inc's money with ai money and income.

I'm curious whether a significant portion of their user base actually complained to them about this direction. I and my nerdy cohorts on Mastodon despise what they're doing, but did they hear it? Or are they blatantly ignoring their customers?

With that said I've been getting a huge "WE CAN'T BE LEFT BEHIND" smell of panic from Mozilla, so I'd bet they *did* hear complaints but feel as though excluding AI (or "not increasing its footprint") would be their death knell.

what is a "modern AI browser"?

Isn't this like saying your car needs to be a avant-garde dining experience?

@librewolf

chaos.social/@librewolf/115716…

#IronFox

vielleicht ist der #Ladybird Browser bald fertig.

#FireFox ist damit wohl Tod

LibreWolf

2025-12-14 08:11:14

As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

It did finally inspire me to install #LibreWolf, so that's cool, I guess?

For macOS users, if you have brew installed already, it's just…

brew install --cask librewolf

But then you also need to do an xattr thing to de-quarantine it from the OS, plus a thing to allow extensions to use biometrics (if that's a thing you're doing).

The de-quarantine thing is:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LibreWolf.app

maybe it's time for various Linux distributions to stop putting Firefox as default browser after installation...

I mean, good riddance.

ok well here's one response to this crap

opencollective.com/servo

#enshittification #mozilla #aislop

I hate this, i use librewolf, but I must say I understand the CEO : why would he care the userbase when it's less than 5% marketshare. He must be looking at other browsers users, those legions of llm daily users.

Wait and see, it would not survive anyway without an attempt, as long as clean forks exist.

Dear @mozilla, regarding this topic - where do you read feedback?

Just wondering where to send a well crafted message to suggest stuffing "AI browser" up your new CEO.

mastodon.social/@Distante/1157…

Distante

2025-12-17 06:40:27

I don't see any problems with how Firefox implements AI yet, but the phrase ‘AI browser’ scares me

I am very disappointed with the focus on AI rather than significant improvements to the browser itself (I mean resource allocation)

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/le…

Still, I don't see any problems with Mozilla's current(!!!) approach, and I'm also scared by emotional social media users

#AI #Mozilla #Firefox

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)}