Firefox for Web DevelopersApr 30

Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API.

We feel it has a large interoperability risk, and Google imposing T&Cs on a web API sets a dangerous precedent.

Full details: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213#issuecomment-4347988313

Prompt API · Issue #1213 · mozilla/standards-positions

Specification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/README.md Proposal au...

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Show threadstux⚡️Apr 30

@firefoxwebdevs Whahaha good joke

Mozilla opposes AI? Yeah right 😆

Show threadMarc 🐷🌏Apr 30
@stux @firefoxwebdevs
Read first before you react. Mozilla opposes the *API*.
Show threadstux⚡️Apr 30
@marc_eu @firefoxwebdevs Yes, AI API
Show threadMarc 🐷🌏
@stux @firefoxwebdevs
En dus is de reactie van Mozilla niet zo gek?
Apr 30 at 12:21pmWeb
Show threadyokhaiApr 30
@marc_eu if not for the fact that Mozilla ships Firefox with AI chatbots despite a majority of people telling them, "don't do that"...this *would* have been a noble cause.
Show threadMarc 🐷🌏Apr 30
@yokhai
Yeah, but in all fairness, they're focusing on only local LLM's and, more importantly they implemented a AI kill switch that turns every AI functionality off and is enabled (= no AI) by default.
Show threadyoasifApr 30

@marc_eu @yokhai None of their LLMs are local, what are you talking about?

PS: Link Previews is enabled by default (and is disabled by the kill switch - weird, right?): https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/01/06/architecting-consent-for-ai-deceptive-patterns-in-firefox-link-previews.html

Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patterns (previously known as dark patterns) to nag and annoy people into enabling AI features. You can see this in the introduction of Link Previews, an extremely invasive anti-feature that exists solely to push AI into your experience.

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Show threadMarc 🐷🌏Apr 30

@yoasif @yokhai
'None' is incorrect.

I just did a fresh install of FF. AI is off by default.

FF has local LLM's like for translation. More will follow (can't find the article about that now).

But yes, *as an option* you can also add third-party LLM's (online).

And link previews:
"Optionally, you can also use AI to read the beginning of the page and generate a few bullet points. To prioritize your privacy, the AI works on your device. This means you’ll need at least 3 GB of available RAM to use the optional AI."

Keywords: 'optional' and 'local'.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/on-device-models?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-link-previews-firefox

On-device AI models in Firefox | Firefox Help

Learn what on-device AI models are and how you can manage them.

Show threadyoasifApr 30

@marc_eu @yokhai None of the LLMs that could serve Google's "Prompt API" proposal to the web platform is local in Firefox.

Context matters.

Show threadMarc 🐷🌏Apr 30

@yoasif @yokhai
Yeah context.

If you would have read what I was responding to, then you could have known what the context of my response was.

You are the one who jumps out of context.

But let's end it here. Agree to disagree.

#noAI #firefox

Show threadyoasifApr 30

@marc_eu @yokhai You said that Mozilla is focusing on local LLMs, which is obviously not true, and it doesn't even make contextual sense, since none of the local LLMs in Firefox can serve a prompt API, since they don't respond to prompts.

It isn't "agree to disagree" -- your response was to a comment about chatbots that could respond to prompts - unlike the local LLMs that do not.