Linus Tech Tips Discussion

ence of Firefox, but given Mozilla's history with NOT listening to the community, only bad scenarios pop up to mind. I can't be expected to keep up with what features are added that I must disable every update to keep Firefox's resources usage to a minimum (Firefox occasionally pushes multiple updates a week, which sounds like wild goose chase). Sure, there's no such thing as a "perfect browser" even within the forks, but it takes a new kind of deafness to not only ignore a sizeable chunk of its users and developers, but also push features that hinders one of the main selling points of Firefox - "being the gold standard for privacy" - whilst chasing the "AI! AI! AI!" gold mine that is the current "bubble". .    While the usefulness of chatbots and AI models can't go understated, it's been shown time and time again that trusting AI can be a huge privacy issue, such as the time Perplexity.ai discovered Google indexed shared ChatGPT conversations, or when Microsoft uploaded Copilot gaming screenshots, enabled by default, and so on. No matter what it is, if it has AI in it, it'll be exploited one way or another and will become a potential vector of attack for nefarious users.    I'll be removing all of my passwords on the browser, but for now I'll continue to use Firefox until the time AI and other features I'm not interested are forced to be turned on. I've used the browser since the days of Windows XP, and all that I'd like to say has already been echoed by others on the Mozilla support forums and the subreddit. Also obligatory [Insert all Floatplane users are Firefox users joke here]   Sources https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-AI https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1555109 https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/new/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1poe7kb/an_open_letter_to_mozillas_new_ceo_firefox_doesnt/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1pofxga/im_tired_of_turning_off_all_the_new_features/ https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/