If mozilla tries to force me to interact with any sort of AI garbage, I will gladly uninstall Firefox.

[deceseze]

it's been an extremely hostile environment online for people like me. i try to be a conscious consumer (as much as i wish i didn't have to "consume" anything), and i'm extremely critical of market trends and markets in general. i don't like AI. i don't use AI. i can't imagine a future where i will ever have to use AI. we've lived and thrived on this planet for maybe 2 million years depending on your definition of a human, and Some of us have been using AI for maybe upwards of 3 years, and it hasn't improved our lives in any noticeable way. it's made everything much more annoying and inconvenient and fake.
AI is a bubble, and a bubble that is close to bursting. it's a trend. i'm not a very smart guy, and even i can see that AI is a useless, harmful, stupid trend. i do Not want any more of these electricity-hogging resource-draining CPU-killing features being crammed into firefox because it's trendy for corporations to claim they're all about AI in 2025.
i started using firefox because i hate google. i'll stop using firefox because i hate ai. i'll use netscape navigator if i have to, and delete any trace of firefox from my computer if mozilla moves ahead with further AI implementation. call me a backwards luddite if you want to, i don't care. i won't kowtow to skynet.

[Debellatis]

Seconding this. I moved from Chrome to Firefox because of its privacy protections, and have only been happy to have made the switch when useful extensions were banned from Chrome (specially uBlock), and happier yet when Firefox didn't try to shove AI down my throat like the other browsers were doing to their own users. If Firefox keeps going this direction, I'll be the same level of happy to move away from another predatory browser.

[inpri]

it's not enough to uninstall. i use to enthusiastically endorse firefox, and mozilla. this is devastatingly stupid news. anthony enzor-demeo has ruined my perception of mozilla in a day. they spent decades building a reputation as being the ONLY viable browser. it's going to take decades to rebuild the trust i had. 

i'm devastated. it's hard to overstate just how much mozilla stood out and how jarring of a realignment this is.

[Mara_Jester]

Agreed, even deciding to go forward with this as an optional feature has led to me cancelling my Mozilla VPN subscription and I suggest like-minded users who feel spurned by Mozilla's recent practices should follow a similar route and begin to seek out possible replacements 

[IK248]

I just wanted to offer a slightly different perspective just so it can't be said that "you'd have to be a Luddite to not want AI integration". I actually do use AI. It's a new technology and I want to have a good understanding of it and take advantage of new functionality if it makes sense. There are some uses for AI that do make sense and I would be happy to support if it was being approached responsibly and sustainably. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that I want it fully integrated into every piece of software and every experience on a device. On the contrary, the more I understand AI the more I want it ISOLATED. When I want to use an AI based service or tool I want to run that tool, then close it. I don't want the primary application I use to interact with the internet to be fundamentally integrated with a technology that by it's nature is the antithesis of being privacy focused, is constantly changing (another way to say it is unstable) and thus unpredictable and unreliable. Even in the case of an AI agent or assistant, I want a sandboxed, isolated instance that I know when it's running and when it isn't. That means either running it as a stand-alone utility or visiting a website — you know the thing a web browser was designed to do. And yes, I used the em-dash ironically.

Firefox is (or was) just about the only option for a modern browser that still gave the user some power to control their privacy and their experience. AI integration doesn't just erode that, it eliminates it. Even if the first version has guard rails or limited, it's too open ended to rely on them being effective or for those protections to be retained and feature creep will mean that it just keeps growing once introduced (slippery slope argument).

If the Mozilla leadership has been diluted enough by the AI sales pitch to think they need to include it, please consider it an OPTIONAL NOT INSTALLED BY DEFAULT add-on or, better yet a completely separate product. Users should have the option to use a web browser that is a web browser. Not a web browser AND.

[diospore]

Agreed. Firefox was one of the few things I would actually suggest people to use. I don't really know what I'll use instead but whatever it is it better not get AI because I'm sick of having to change my routine again and again. 😞

[CreoS]

I and so many others completely agree! This company is destroying the good name they have built over years of hard work and dedication. It's really disappointing overall. But everything is meant to die eventually. I guess Mozilla is impatient about their time..