Mastodawn

Hey, Firefox - go fuck yourself. If I wanted to use Perplexity as a search engine in your browser (I don’t) I would’ve added it myself. You didn’t need to add it, enable it by default, and make me have to go figure out what this new random button in my search bar is. AI, like most new unproven tech, should be informed opt-in, not forcibly opt-out.

Assholes.

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Seán Fenian Dec 4

@izzyamar The Register has had a number of articles over the last six months about how utterly disconnected the Mozilla Foundation's leadership has become from Firefox's actual userbase. El Reg used the word "rudderless" more than once.

Mozilla's "leaders" don't seem to understand that if they eliminate from Firefox all of the reasons that people use it, people will no longer have any reason to use it.

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Seán Fenian Dec 4

@izzyamar Afterthought: I saw a post just the other day listing all of the about:config options to set false to both speed up Firefox browsing AND disable all current 'AI' features. But I can't find it again now.

A good start is to go into about:config, put browser.ml in the search bar, and toggle EVERY browser.ml.*.enabled option that comes up to false, plus every true/false option ('.enabled' or otherwise) under browser.ml.chat.

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Daniel Blake

@zakalwe @izzyamar This one https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115649931911132896

David Gerard (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image anecdotal reports are that this makes Firefox noticeably faster that list of settings to disable: browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

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