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Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

2mustange — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:54:20 GMT

In case anyone missed it, the new CEO posted this: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/

My initial thoughts, this reliance on AI does not spark confidence in the future of Firefox.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

TiltedW — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:28:05 GMT

"Building the worlds most trusted software company" is a goal that is fundamentally incompatible with forcing AI into the browser.

The management of a company blindly jumping on an overrated, hype trend, that is based on an economical bubble, does anything BUT inspire trust in said company.
Someone that incompetent should not be trusted as a CEO, and a company that allows them to have any decision making power, can by extension also not be trusted.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Dick_Nation — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:32:01 GMT

Building the world's most trusted software company, by immediately making themselves extremely untrustworthy. Vile. The only people whose work needs to be replaced in our society are CEOs.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

fool — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:58:10 GMT

Four of the five top trending items on this website are from people asking to stop adding AI misfeatures. How can a software company become trusted by ignoring overwhelming feedback from its users?

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

RentAChemist — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:54:41 GMT

Why not replace the CEO with an AI and leave AI out of the product?

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CHaSeD — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:58:30 GMT

Mozilla would be able to make way more money if they didn't have to pay the C-Suite. Just saying.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

InclinedPlane — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:15:08 GMT

I have been using Firefox off and on since it was called "Phoenix". I've followed its evolution over multiple decades including some significant ups and downs. Finally in recent years Firefox has become a fully modern, efficient, standards compliant, and competitive browser. Unfortunately, the new CEO has decided this is the perfect time to infect the project with the blight of AI. There is no compelling user experience that is fulfilled by AI, there is no need that is being met, it's just yet another example of CEO FOMO being expressed by all of the "thought leaders" (what irony) in the tech industry.

I would love to support Mozilla and Firefox even more than I have so far, but I refuse to do so until their leadership make strong commitments to end user experience and opting out of the AI fad. This is such a ridiculous own goal at a time when Firefox could become the poster child for what a good browser should be.

Unfortunately, it's looking increasingly likely that I'll have to switch browsers yet again. Perhaps this time it'll take another decade before Firefox is again in a state worth using or perhaps it'll never recover from this mess, we'll just have to wait and see.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

beemo — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:28:29 GMT

I've been using firefox for almost 20 years now. If this is the direction it is going I will immediately uninstall it and switch to waterfox or librewolf. You clearly don't understand your own user base.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

f00l — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:46:56 GMT

The incredible thing is that he managed to ignore all the feedback in EVERY Ai-related discussion that said that WE DO NOT WANT MORE AI CRAP. I guess it's time to move away from Firefox, since they decided to copy Microsoft in their way to piss off users.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

astbaum — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:21:49 GMT

I don't need more AI features in my life. I can do all the tasks myself.

Going to look for alternative browsers.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

ButtercupBoopy — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:28:49 GMT

I need firefox to understand the only reason im using it is because its not AI bloatware garbage trying to shovel together more garbage pretending to be anything more than regurgitated info it cobbled together into something I want to hear but is incredibly wrong. If it turns into google I have no reason to stick around.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

coldknees — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:58:38 GMT

Surely they have the numbers on how many users have turned off all the AI garbage that is currently in the browser, why would they add more?
Just a total fundamental misunderstanding of who the userbase is - we're using firefox because everything else is crammed full of bloat and AI and other crap, if firefox ends up being no different then why would we continue using it?

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

forward — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:41:10 GMT

What a disappointment. i was wrong to expect better from Firefox, hoping that they would listen to the millions of people vehemently stating they do NOT want more AI trash forced down their throats. and least give us the option of having a browser without AI and some semblance of security and privacy. alas, just another corporation who values lunging towards the newest market trend and money instead of appealing to their own consumers. you know, the very foundation that allowed you to even become a major browser option? feel shame and regret, Firefox. switching browsers immediately.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Meem55 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:27:28 GMT

New CEO is clearly not in touch with his user base 😠

Also: missing a huge opportunity here. I'm 99% sure that, if you market your product as "AI Free", you will gain a lot of new users and keep your current users.
People are fed up with all the AI crap nowadays. Capitalising on that instead of stepping into the AI bubble is a golden opportunity.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

WCA11 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:38:29 GMT

Exactly! We do NOT need AI in Firefox. It is a pointless feature that is going to explode in everyone's faces sooner rather than later.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Casie — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:58:55 GMT

I personally do not trust a browser that shoehorns AI in everywhere it can.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

p32t — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:28:44 GMT

AI Should be something you always have to turn on. Opt-in not opt-out! The idea that AI is so integral to a browser that it is a feature you must turn off is just absurd. I use firefox because of its privacy features which would be decimated with forced AI integration. Firefox alone has all of the customizaion features I want, and until recently has been a blessed relief from the accursed creep of AI into every online interaction.

I genuinely will stop using Firefox and switch to a different browser if Firefox forces opt-out only integration of AI into my life, this is that big of a deal to me.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

jlwork — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:28:50 GMT

NO FUKING AI!

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Devilpants — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:43:56 GMT

Not only did they force it in, they also hid it in about:config, a menu the browser actively discourages users from digging around in and that most people wouldn't even know about if not for guides on how to disable the AI slop already in Firefox.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Bryce — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:32:44 GMT

Yeah if this is the direction things are moving in, I will be switching browsers and declining to renew my Mozilla VPN subscription as well.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

soupgoescronch — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:02:58 GMT

The only reason I switched to Firefox is because it wasn't bloated with unnecessary and harmful AI "features." If Firefox goes through with becoming like every other browser, I'm switching again.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Ne0 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:44:16 GMT

Yeah, this is a significant downgrade in terms of trust for me. I use Firefox as a browser because Mozilla actually, demonstrably, does more to keep my data safe than chromium. This is the opposite of cyber security. There is no privacy with AI, especially badly implemented AI, which this is absolutely going to be.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

artemouse — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:45:00 GMT

Its lack of AI has been the reason I've stuck with Firefox for so long. It's all well and good to say your AI is optional, but so far the AI settings have been pretty hidden and I really dislike the direction this is going. I'll have to find something else if this continues.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Hinap — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:46:37 GMT

An AI future for Firefox is no good future for Firefox in the slightest. The general human population is not interested in this bloatware, especially when its addition tanks what we use internet browsers for.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

anonymoususer99 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:50:13 GMT

i switched my entire OS to get away from AI. switching a browser is nothing. librewolf or waterfox it is. echoing another comment from elsewhere on the web, this is our modern radium. years from now, we'll look back on this and go, "they put AI in WHAT?!"

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

eevee — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:55:23 GMT

i really don't understand how building in the technology that generates plausible nonsense is supposed to engender trust in mozilla. the web is already increasingly lying to me, and now my browser can save me time by doing it directly, and somehow this creates trust?

this post is written as though "trust" is a thing you just sort of passively generate. absurd.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

sunf1ower — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:55:29 GMT

The new CEO writes, "It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and building technology that puts them first" but then goes on about how great it'll be for their bottom line to add AI to the Firefox product. Waxing poetic about how much people trust the brand, as if there's this big pool of people ready to be exploited for their faith in what Firefox used to stand for.

Like many of the other replies have already said, the main user base for Firefox are people who value privacy, customizability, control over their digital data, and formerly, the option to stay away from browsers blighted by AI slop. To look at that core demographic of users and only see the quick buck they'll make before the AI bubble bursts is disgusting. If the first move you make as the new CEO is to betray that trust, I will no longer be using Firefox.

I was already incredibly suspicious of the latest AI update that forced us to go into the config menu to turn off the AI snooping features, something that should have been a) opt-in (not out!!) b) clearly communicated/announced to users and c) easy to turn off through the regular settings menu.

What a truly sad and disappointing direction Firefox is going in. I enjoyed my time with it and I'm glad it was genuinely great for a few years but I will be moving to another browser like Librewolf or Waterfox.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

BattasticBrat — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:02:27 GMT

As someone who has been very happy with their switch from Chrome to Firefox, the implementation of ai would render this choice COMPLETELY WORTHLESS. I like firefox because its the opposite of everything other browsers are doing. If firefox goes down this path, I will have no problem switching to a new ai-less browser.

The ai bubble is getting closer and closer to bursting by the day- putting money towards ai now is just digging your own grave at this point. Ai isnt profitable and the vast majority of people don't like it.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

womanaction — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:19:08 GMT

like seriously they’re acting like people want this but everywhere I look I just see people complaining about it. and even if there are some people somewhere who do want this - it should be strictly opt in.

i don’t want to change browsers but I will if they keep on this trend…

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

growingCataclys — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:20:12 GMT

i use firefox to get away from the rest of the tech world's reliance on ai, not to join it. if things keep going this way, ill have to find another browser 😕

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

dkbu — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:31:38 GMT

Agreed with OP. why is AI necessary in a browser? What purpose does it serve?

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

IssueSpam — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:40:50 GMT

Seconding this, if Firefox ever tries to force me to use generative AI features I will immediately switch browsers.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

DonutRush — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:53:49 GMT

Satisfying the whims of an overpaid C-suite doofus who thinks unreliable word calculators are the future because they can outsmart him.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

greyywatch — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:03:40 GMT

Agreed. AI is completely incompatible with what I perceived to be the goals of Firefox and is in opposition to the reasons I switched to Firefox in the first place. This makes me feel like my information and privacy is no longer secure with Firefox, these AI services are not useful or interesting, and currently the ONLY reason I haven't switched to Waterfox is that at least Firefox currently lets me turn these things /off/. I don't think that's going to be a good enough reason if this all continues. Smarten up, Anthony.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Beewytched — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:15:50 GMT

No. Absolutely not. I've been with Firefox for a long while and it was such a blast having a browser that wasn't a Google Chrome clone with extras and slight differences. But if this is where Firefox is headed—going the AI route despite all the backlash from others, giving us more slop that would be instantly turned off the moment somebody knows how to—then I will be looking for alternatives.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Simplysly — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:24:03 GMT

The main reason I use Firefox is the lack of AI

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Juliver — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:29:34 GMT

Welp, time to say bye to firefox. It's a shame, I've been using the browser BECAUSE of its lack of forced AI slop. Corporate greed once again ruins user experience and alienates the very consumers they claim to support.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

biffjerky — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:30:15 GMT

I trusted FireFox because it promised to not turn into another search engine with no privacy and not bogged down by AI. If they go ahead with this AI bull**bleep**, I’m deleting everything.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

sbuggbot — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:38:39 GMT

Nobody asked for AI features. People use Firefox specifically because it's one of the few browsers that still offers its users privacy and doesn't have AI shoved into it.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

altaratlas — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:00:29 GMT

All the AI functions in the world can not replace the need for my browser to be trustworthy and secure, which is why I chose Firefox in the first place. I need to be able to trust the information I see and the actions I take on my browser and feel confident that they are done privately. Large language models are inherently fragile when used at scale, they cannot be completely trusted and are insecure. Even if the whole model is run locally on my machine, reliability is still an issue.

'Basic' browsers will not die because AI cannot engender complete trust, so Firefox does not (and should not) need to follow the AI hype train. If Mozilla develops AI crud and makes them available only as an opt-in utility, I will not opt-in. If they are not opt-in, I'll leave.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Archiewhite — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:56:37 GMT

An average Firefox user is here to not deal with Chromium and all the consequences of what the people at there think up. By implementing AI features against the desires of the userbase complaining in this very place, Firefox is losing its main purpose as the browser for people who don't want the big digit to make all the decisions for them.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

rainbowbarnacle — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:24:15 GMT

We don't need AI. Don't try to fix what isn't broken.

Please don't make me switch to another browser, Firefox has been my default for so long because it respected my privacy and isn't full of AI slop I didn't ask for.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

esca_f — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:44:56 GMT

I use Firefox specifically *because* it didn't rely on AI/LLM functionality and was better for privacy. It's incredibly frustrating and disheartening to hear another CEO chugging the kool-aid without an ounce of critical thought.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Catkyn — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:56:22 GMT

This was some of the worst possible news I could have seen today; Firefox is the only browser I use! I loathe AI (generative) and I hate the monopoly that Google and Microsoft have on nearly all of the ways we can use the internet. Firefox remains the only browser left standing that will let you permanently disable the Very Few AI "features" that have been added so far; all of the other available options have been fully merged with AI to a point I find hideously unusable and, if they allow you to disable any of the AI "features" at all, will only allow you to do so for a brief time before re-enabling them.

If this new CEO has his way, Firefox (and Mozilla) are going to be jumping onto the (generative) Artificial Intelligence bandwagon and frankly, I hate it. The servers needed to run the AI Hallucination Machine are ridiculously expensive, terrible for the environment, noisy as heck, and quite honestly if I wanted to hallucinate an answer to anything I'd look to more fun ways to do that before ever asking a machine.

In my experience, the more AI "features" have been added to a thing, the less secure it gets, the more bloated it feels to use, it slows down immensely, and the less I can trust that I have actually found the answers I was looking for. I do not want (generative) AI on my machines! They don't need them! It should be fully optional to have such! Not a sudden, and exceedingly unwelcome, permanent feature that has been added.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

fireflyonskates — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:35:09 GMT

I've been using Firefox for a hell of a long time because it was the best browser out there for privacy. But I used Google websearch, Microsoft Windows and Gmail for a long time too, and when they nose-dived into en**bleep**tification, I ditched them. I'm on Linux and encrypted email now, and various websearches. I can and will ditch Firefox too if they shove more AI into it such that it interferes with privacy. Absolutely moronic that so many companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon when we all know it SUCKS at most jobs it's being given, and they're only losing money on it.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Ryalo — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:46:20 GMT

Super disappointed in Firefox for this. I specifically use Firefox because of the lack of bloatware nonsense. I have zero interest in AI features, and will definitely be looking for a Firefox alternative if this is the path that Firefox is on.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

ragecndybars — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:07:20 GMT

So crushed... I've been using Firefox and happy with it for a decade or so and now I need to find an alternative because the new CEO decided to throw all my trust for the browser into the garbage. Can't have anything anymore!! Very frustrating. 😕

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Yuki_Tsukihana — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:22:30 GMT

I moved from Chrome back to Firefox because of the privacy issues only to be hit with this bull**bleep**. We have browser AIs that are literally stealing people's banking data, and this new **bleep** wants more of that? If a new browser pops up that doesn't have any of this AI bloatware, I'm switching immediately. Goodbye, Firefox.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Orudeon — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:33:30 GMT

"Firefox remains our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser." Barf. Please, do not do this, reverse course. I go out of my way to install Firefox on all of my devices because I don't want any of that trash on my computer. This is so out of touch with their users and far too tuned in to tech hype.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Hatter — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:43:34 GMT

I do not want more AI in my life. It is already making every aspect of life harder and less realible and I use firefox BECAUSE it doesn't shove useless crap down my throat. I am begging the CEO to not sacrifice our privacy and the efficacy of the service to hop on a stupid bandwagon that will only hurt the environment and the remaining shreds of my sanity.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Onko — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:59:40 GMT

The problem is that LLMs are inherently untrustworthy. Even if it were possible to solve ai hallucinations and run a totally local model, I still wouldn't trust it with anything.

Any product that handles my information and uses LLM is one to be replaced and scorned.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Lauralot — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:09:18 GMT

I have never wanted anything less than AI in Firefox. Why is the CEO so devoted to ruining what has previously been the Internet's best browser?

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

ConsiderBirds — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:38:35 GMT

Absolutely hate Firefox's AI update, because the first thing Anthony does is lie.
The FIRST thing he mentions about how he wants Firefox to move forward is that AI should be easily toggleable. Chasing down specific configurations, many of which I miss when updating different devices, in about:config is not what I'd call 'easily'.

Everytime someone (even a CEO who should know better) uses AI, they use it as a buzzword. Not actually describing what it does. 'AI powered browser' the most noticeable AI is when a search-engine uses it to summarize sources without giving them. Confidently giving someone's blog thatweirddreamwhen as an actual source.

If I wanted confident and maybe even occasionally correct anwers, wikipedia is free.

Give people actual objectives of what you want AI to do - not just 'improvement'. I have yet to see this kind of AI give improvement, and I want something you can prove. The quickest way to eliminate doubt is to give proof, not nebulous promises of improvement.

('Everyone's doing it', have you ever researched the cause of the Dust Bowl, where improper farming practices caused a nationwide famine? Or like, read about everyone's favorite pesticide, DDT, which nearly caused the extinction of Bald Eagles? I'm digressing, but still - the average user of Firefox specifically does not use Chrome. The people you have to convince do not want Anthony's full confidence and vision, we want AI out or solid, irrefutable proof it's useful.)

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

TypoMary — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:31:40 GMT

Yeah this is the opposite of Firefox's appeal. I use it for the privacy and lack of connection to Google. Oh well, there's other browsers.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

disco531 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:44:08 GMT

I don't want an AI curated experience, I want water in the Colorado River. Throw your new CEO out a window.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Indigorocks — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:51:39 GMT

This new CEO is so out of touch. Firefox needs to stop trying to make AI palatable to its user base because they're making folks out of themselves. A majority of us use firefox to escape the AI bs on other browsers like Chrome. If they think users won't drop them over further AI integration then they have another thing comin

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

InvisibleSpork — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:26:49 GMT

Oh come ON. The reason I still use firefox is specifically because it DOESN'T force AI slop on me. And the claim that they will always allow opt-out of AI does not fill me with confidence when right afterwards they say they want to turn firefox into an AI browser. I'm so tired of AI being shoe-horned into everything because executives are experiencing FOMO over a technology that, honestly, is going to pop the bubble. I miss when products did what they said and worked properly and didn't evaporate a lake of water every time I ran a search. My user experience has deteriorated so much since everybody jumped on this bandwagon.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

hacka — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:07:42 GMT

I have been using Firefox for at least 15 years. I have happily recommended it to everyone in my life because it offered a genuinely good user experience, with a worthy mission statement.

Chasing the AI trend puts you on the path to throw all of that away. AI is the opposite of trustworthy. The AI companies themselves will acknowledge this if you really press on it - see OpenAI's privacy policy page, for example. And for Mozilla's bottom line... AI is horribly expensive to train and run. How are you going to pay for this? It'll come at a cost to the users, one way or another.

I can easily switch to a fork, but that's not accessible to everyone. It's the same reason why so many people use Edge, Chrome, or even IE back in the day. You're throwing out name recognition, goodwill and user experience for the sake of falling in line with the rest of big tech. Don't be a mindless follower.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

metalshop — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:38:44 GMT

bad news, i went over to firefox in the first place to avoid this kind of trouble

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Vax — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:39:45 GMT

The entire reason I use firefox is for it's lack of forced AI, it's privacy, and it's ad blocking ability.

Changing to an AI slop model just to jump on the bandwagon and destroy the integrity of firefox as a whole is a disgusting and weak willed choice by the new CEO. It demonstrates a complete lack of care for the userbase as whole.

AI integration is a deeply unneeded addition and I will not hesitate to jump ship and never use firefox again. I hope the new CEO reverses course on his asinine idea of what he thinks would be best as he's clearly clueless about what he just got put in charge of and only sees dollar signs. He'll sink the company by force integration of the AI people are actively avoiding!

NO ONE WANTS MORE AI SLOP.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Medicchi — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:46:47 GMT

After reading the CEO post I navigated to this forum via the "contact us" link.

I was happy to see all the posts rejecting this move to AI... Until I saw the dates.

Months of overwhelming feedback completely ignored by a new CEO desperate to outdo his predecessor and leave a mark on the company. For better or for worse.

What a slimeball.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

MrBeefgnaw — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:50:12 GMT

Thanks! We hate it.

Read the room, Anthony. Nobody wants AI slop in Firefox.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Medicchi — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:50:38 GMT

Can the new CEO step down and just give the job to this guy? They just spitballed the easiest way to double your user base.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

dom380 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:12:12 GMT

People use firefox because it doesn't do this **bleep**. If the plan is to following in chrome's footsteps you're going to lose the majority of your users

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

dragonkid11 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:10:30 GMT

This is a complete brainrot of an idea that Mozilla is chasing here, no bloody AI allowed in my browser or computer or anywhere really

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Zakadi — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:15:15 GMT

This is so stupid. 'AI' and 'Trust' are fundamentally incompatible and it means I'm probably now going to have to just use Waterfox since Firefox can't put a CEO in charge who isn't sniffing the farts of AI and insisting it's a rose.

All you have to do is say, 'Look, no ads!' and you'll win the Browser War on a long enough timeline. Manifest V3 was Google shooting itself in the foot if you just lean into the fact that Firefox supports dynamic ad blocking, but your leadership is so incredibly stupid that they can't just take the Win without putting a bullet in their own foot as well.

I write this, knowing I'm shouting into the void. Firefox hasn't listened to an ounce of real feedback for a decade, and I don't expect that to change.

Anyway, keep foot-gunning yourself I guess and maybe replace your awful CEO with AI as that might actually produce value instead of putting someone so out of touch with the world in that spot.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

seeMysmile — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:31:22 GMT

Jesus really? I switched to Firefox expressly because it didn't use AI **bleep**ware. The last thing I want is to have to deal with this now to! **bleep**!

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Valk — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:09:04 GMT

Love all the talk of transparency and letting the user control what the software is doing, right next to promises of turning firefox into an "AI browser" whatever that means.

Sure, complete transparency and control, buuut we're also going to feed your inputs to the opaque magic box that rolls a dice to decide how it responds to it.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

drcox — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:53:14 GMT

You know what's sad? If we replaced this CEO with AI, and we told that AI "we don't want AI in the browser", it would actually listen to us.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Silky — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:31:25 GMT

Nobody who uses Firefox uses it for AI. Hell i switched over from Google Chrome to Firefox because I wanted better privacy and less AI bull**bleep**. And lo and behold the CEO of Firefox now wants to sell out and buy into the AI slopfest bull**bleep** going around. Not to mention how this goes directly against the Mozilla Manifesto.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

ReiA — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:42:11 GMT

The CEO and other executives should have learned when, the moment AI "features" were added, posts telling people how to turn them off became popular.

Pivoting Firefox to an "AI Browser" (whatever that means) runs directly counter to all the other stated priorities. "AI" does not make money, so it will not help the bottom line. "AI" was built on theft and invasion of privacy, nor can it tell truth from lie; how does this help Mozilla become "the most trusted software company"?

How long before these "optional" features become so deeply embedded that they can't be turned off, or removed? How many software companies have promised that a feature will be maintained, or something will not be added, only to betray that promise?

This message already has me thinking of alternatives. I will switch if this course is not reversed.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Silky — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:49:47 GMT

I could not agree more. I too will be considering alternative browsers if Mozilla decides to adopt AI. Especially since it will mean that they have chosen following the so called popular trend of using AI in the hopes of more profit and abandoning their commitment to delivering on the promises of their manifesto.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

ioPOL — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:37:23 GMT

Yeah, I'm out. I just started using Firefox this year because I was tired of Chrome's nonsense, and now this? I came for actual info privacy and control, not to be another AI farm. I have no trust in a company that favors trendy, ill-regulated tech over the feedback of its userbase.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Jan_Caltrop — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:34:47 GMT

I do not want any "AI" features in my browser; I don't trust it to do its intended job properly, even ASIDE from the fact that its "intended jobs" are often things I actively don't want. It's like... imagine a previously-vegetarian restaurant (where most of its customers are there BECAUSE it's vegetarian) not only hires someone to prepare meat dishes, but that person is incompetent and regularly burns the food setting off the smoke alarm.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

LowDown79385 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:26:41 GMT

I've been using FireFox almost exclusively because it does not have anything AI that cannot be turned off.

I even have a custom browser that reroutes my searches to avoid AI summaries (using the udm=14 shortcut) and it's been working like a dream! I even use Firefox exclusively on my phone, despite having a perfectly good native browser, because it has this feature!

If Firefox begins to use AI in earnest, I will be immensely disappointed and stop using the browser entirely. I have no patience whatsoever for this. The AI 'let us summarize your browser groups' and other so-called 'features' were already pushing it, and I turned them off as soon as I was able.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

subtlety — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:53:31 GMT

The new CEO has brought nothing but bs to the project. He needs to step down now.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

EliasLeftFang — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:19:04 GMT

I've been using Firefox for years now since Chrome went to hell and decided to stay there. Firefox was the Last Homely House in the current age of companies not listening to their customers on what we want, and I believe a LOT of us do not want new AI features scraping and leaking our data and bloating our search experience. I will be strongly considering switching browsers again if they decide to do this for real.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

subtlety — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:15:19 GMT

They're already doing it. They've slipped AI features into recent updates that you need to disable manually through the about:config screen

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Devilpants — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:58:39 GMT

No kidding. They talk big about transparency and user control, then hide the options to turn off the AI garbage in about:config, a menu that actively discourages users from even opening it and relies exclusively on external guides to know how to safely navigate and use.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

theinstagrahame — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:35:12 GMT

How do I preemptively uninstall the AI crap? Or do I need to just find a new browser?

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

DonutRush — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:30:30 GMT

New browser. They're already defaulted-on multiple new AI features, they're not gonna start being honest now.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

MrBeefgnaw — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:09:07 GMT

Okay but you are (no pun intended... maybe 😏) cooking with this metaphor.

You've got a vegetarian restaurant that's famous for its great vegetarian dishes, and it has a huge customer base of vegetarian customers who bring their vegetarian friends, and business is great. But then a new general manager comes on board and he's read a lot of articles full of buzzwords like "leveraging bacon" and "tri-tip integration" and he decides that every dish needs to come with a single raw Sysco chicken nugget on the side. You know, to keep up with new technology. The raw chicken nugget is not in the vegetarian dish, he says. It's on a separate little plate. You don't have to eat it. You can even flag down a server and have it sent back to the kitchen. But the nasty raw nug will come to the table with everything you order, whether you want it or not. The restaurant loses some customers over this, but the food is still great and a lot of people just sigh and complain and send the nug back and enjoy the rest of the meal.

A week later, they start putting the raw nugget on the same plate as the vegetarian dish. You still don't have to eat it. You can wad it up in a napkin. But it's been on your plate with the food you're eating. And your food may have touched raw chicken nugget ick. Maybe enough to make you sick, maybe not, but a lot of customers decide they'd rather not risk it. The restaurant loses more customers, plus a sous chef and a few line cooks who got fired for saying "hey, we know a few things about food safety and we're telling you, we really shouldn't be serving raw chicken and we definitely shouldn't be serving raw chicken to vegetarian guests in a vegetarian restaurant."

The week after that, they just start mixing the raw nugs into every dish. Tableside, no less. You order a nice veggie curry and the server brings it to the table and just flops a big old scoop of raw Sysco chicken nuggets into it and stirs it up right in front of you. And then tells you that if you don't want the raw chicken, you can just pick it out. As if it's not sitting there leaching salmonella and who knows what else into your formerly vegetarian curry.

Sure, there's going to be this weird faction of Raw Poultry Bros who choke down the raw Sysco chicken nuggets and tweet "how did we ever survive without raw mechanically separated chicken in every meal?" even as they're spending half their waking hours on the toilet. But most of the customers are going to go "yeah no I really don't want to eat raw chicken, that's gross," and they're going to start eating somewhere else, and any of the chefs and line cooks with any amount of knowledge and experience are going to go "yeah no we're not serving raw chicken, that's gross and dangerous" and they're going to jump ship and go to work for another restaurant.

We do not want the raw Sysco chicken nugget. At all.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

EliasLeftFang — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:41:39 GMT

that sucks :(, thanks for the heads up tho!

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Squishyputty — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:40:11 GMT

Genuinly, why? What possible advantage does this provide, to anyone? I have yet to get more than marginal benefits from ai integration on other browsers, and just as often it causes more trouble than it's worth. And when I use Firefox, it's specifically for the fact that it's just a straightforward, functional browser with good privacy. Anything extra is not especially helpful, but this sounds like it will make things actively worse, for no reason.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

AV1999 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 04:00:22 GMT

Saw what the CEO plans to do with AI. Canceled my VPN subscription. Might delete my account and switch to a different browser.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

crow-puncher — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:11:30 GMT

i switched to firefox to get away from ai and privacy loss.

i will switch again if i must

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

ep7890 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:18:15 GMT

I am going to switch browsers now because WTF? Just joined Firefox this year because it has less AI in it and now they are trying to pull this sh**.

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

gundeh17 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:01:58 GMT

I do not want it!! I will stop using the software if more AI features are implemented!!

Re: Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

-Lily- — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:34:00 GMT

I use Firefox because I value privacy. Generative AI is fundamentally anti-privacy because it scrapes data from the internet without consent from the people posting that writing/art. If Firefox is going to start using MY data for AI, I’m uninstalling it immediately. I don’t even want to see an AI search bar, let alone have AI be built into my browser. This takes all of Firefox’s trustworthiness and flushes it all down the drain because if I can’t trust this platform with my data and privacy, I can’t trust it at all.