Mozilla Connect Weekly Recap: Top-Voted Ideas (12/5-12/12)

[Jon]

Hey all,

Happy Friday and welcome to another Weekly Recap here in the Mozilla Connect community!

This post will highlight the top 10 most-voted ideas for the previous week (12/5-12/12). While some are ‘new ideas’ and others are already ‘in review’ (learn more about The Idea Journey here), we encourage you to continue voting and add any input that supports your favorite ideas—the more details, the better.

Here they are…

Replace Android Colour Picker 

Profiles - an option to password-protect each profile 

Prefer hardware-accelerated codecs 

Customizable hotkeys 

Mobile tab grouping 

FireFox logo choices. 

Bring back PWA (progressive web apps) 

Double click Dictionary 

Deny websites to mangle the clipboard content 

Pin Tab Groups 

And that's it for this week.

Want to show your support for one (or more) of the ideas above? Click on the idea link, give it kudos, and add your insights.

Is there another idea here on Connect that you think deserves more attention? Tag it in the comment section below.

Or do you have the next great idea for a new feature/feature enhancement/brand new product/you name it? Submit it right here 💡

[Razzle]

Please get rid of the AI trash in Firefox, this is supposed to be the good browser...

[Anonymous]

Is a good browser that is why it is keeping up with innovation and new standards.
How do you browse the web? Bing, Google, Qwant, Brave, Swisscows, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek and Startpage are all using AI to aggregate and sort your search queries. 
A big misconception i see a lot is people think that turning DuckDuckGo search assistant off they are not using AI, it still uses AI to gather and sort through your search queries in the search bar.

So how do you search the web?

[RentAChemist]

I miserably search the web knowing all of these search engines were much better as little as two years ago. 

If someone has urinated in every room of my house but my bedroom, why on Earth do you think I am fine with Firefox urinating in my bedroom? Even if DuckDuckGo lied and said it used the bathroom while spraying the walls, that doesn't change the bad thing Firefox is doing that I don't want it to.

[YSPmarket]

The new update removed the ability to press Delete to remove items from History. Please restore it.

[mrsimon0007]

AI is used by almost all modern search engines, even privacy-focused ones, to sort and rank results. Turning off visible AI features doesn’t fully remove it from the process. I usually choose a search engine based on privacy, result quality, and how much control it gives me over my data.

[RentAChemist]

If Firefox adds AI I have literally zero reason to stick with it instead of returning to Chrome. 

[pugboy1321]

The core users of Firefox do not want all the AI idiocy. We are capable of using a browser and navigating the web ourselves without tools for the lazy and stupid who don't care to read or do real work themselves. 

People choose Firefox to have privacy and control unlike the competition, leave the AI idiocy to the other guys. Your market share is already small, don't make it worse by actively pissing off your core user base chasing a bubble that's gonna pop because you want to use buzzwords. 

And if there's gonna be AI forced in, it needs to be OPT-IN NOT OPT-OUT!

[Fylln]

Adding AI features is stupid, and alienates users who prefer Firefox to escape the progressing inescapability of AI in browers such as Google. Why do this?

[Gnarly140]

Focusing on AI when your company has nothing to do with AI is ridiculous. Leave it alone, the general consensus from everyone I've spoken with is that they will be finding a new browser the moment AI is implemented in a way that annoys them in any way. 

[neondream]

Your market share is going to collapse with the implementation of AI into the browser. People are choosing Firefox to get away from AI. Why would you willingly insult your user base, make your product worse and drive away the people who chose you because you were different from the AI options? Seems like corporate self sabotage. 

[SMBY]

NO! Not all of us what this AI in the browser. I find the comment this new ceo made a tad rude! All my family member and I  want is a simple browser WITHOUT GARBAGE! In our opinion it is a browser and only a browser. To add crap that isn't what we want is determinant to keeping people using your browser. 

[waylander90]

You know whats better than AI? Everything. I came to firefox to get away from that nonsense. 

[QueenEvac]

I Came to Firefox because it was user friendly. Do not Add AI Features. You're making a mistake. Please listen to your user base.

[hulludragon]

Please for the love of god do not add AI tools or features. The reason majority of the userbase use firefox is BECAUSE there is NO AI!!! This is actually ridiculous. If they add generative AI to firefox what reason is there to stick with it 😕 ??? 

[FenixFright]

Dear god if we get more AI BS I will be jumping ship with everyone else, Floorp is lookin pretty good even with the dumb name

[DunnySoft]

As a user literally since version 0.6 of Firefox, I absolutely don't want this stupid direction that the company is going.

If you want to implement AI and force this pox upon us, then at least give us a big red "TURN OFF ALL AI FEATURES" button so that those of us with a semblance of sanity left can at least continue to use the browser the same way we want to.  And don't force us to go into about:config like we currently have to with the existing AI features that you've been sneaking in.

I can't believe we're even having this conversation.  Mozilla is supposed to be better than this.

[Vi3D]

Every person who goes out of their way to install Firefox on a computer is trying to get away from the garbage AI bull**bleep** that other browsers have become, if you all keep pushing in that direction then all you are doing is ensuring the death of your own company as your small share of the market abandons you.

[PastelPunkStars]

I do NOT want an AI browser. This is the only one that doesn't continuously force that garbage for their browser. I don't want it to suddenly be merged with AI and not only give more bloatware, but add more carbon emissions into the air and leaving even more people without fresh water. (We only have so much, ANTHONY. Stop trying to kill us all ANTHONY.) If you continue, I WILL find another browser to use, even if it means having to learn code to make my own browser just to avoid using AI. And even if I don't, others will. Spite is a powerful and nasty beast, do NOT poke it Anthony Enzor-DeMeo.

[MegMucklebones]

Much like everyone else here, I moved to Firefox to get away from the invasive nature of other browsers and to ensure a more secure web browsing experience. If it wasn't for the mass disdain that has brought awareness to your move to inject AI into this browser, I wouldn't have known to even go into about:config to turn off the AI garbage that is on by default! This is unacceptable. Maybe rethink your Mozilla Manifesto Addendum about a "pledge to a healthy internet", particularly principles 4 and 5. AI is antithetical to that mission. The average internet surfer urges you - stop sipping on tech bro sycophant kool-aid like everyone else in Silicon valley and rethink this move. 

[Aiisforretards]

Ai won't solve your CEOs need for a strong rope

[SirPurksalot]

ai is poop. #certified

[SMBY]

Yeah I'm done with Firefox. Now have read you're going to not allow us to have the right to block ads? Toooo far! I am done!

[eldritchjam]

I will switch to a different browser if AI features continue to be added and focused on. 

[N0body]

I am unhappy with Anthony Enzor-DeMeo choice to tarnish Firefox's processes, reputation, and privacy policy for the sake of profit. I do not enjoy the choices that's been made in the last year to incorpate generative processes in Firefox, it has made the browser highly inefficient. If these choice are not reversed or stopped, I will be moving to another search engine. I am incredibly disappointed that Anthony is not listening to the user base. The user-base does not want generative "ai". 

[curiousquail]

Instead of following a trend tied to a bubble that will pop, Firefox has the unique ability to stand out as a stable, powerful web browser that does not rely on "AI" gimmicks. 

Many of us came to Firefox because we did not like the AI feature creep Google is dead-set on; following their lead gives no reason to stick with this browser ecosystem; if we're going to be forced to deal with shoehorned AI we might as well use the other one. 

And to anyone saying "AI is where the investment money is" - look at Savage Interactive as an example; they have numerous competitors in the artistic tool space (including Adobe!!) and they firmly stand not only against Subscription models but also against AI with their Procreate software as household name in the arts space, absolutely thriving from a business perspective and remaining a best-selling app. 

Firefox could embrace a similar 'No AI' stance and when this bubble bursts, be the browser that leads, not the browser that followed.

[Cal1]

On one hand, I agree with the other commenters. I hate when companies add  useless AI features nobody asked for. At lease put them in an extension we can choose to download if we need it, rather than bloating the browser with nonsense that a minority use regularly.

On the other hand, how many of us have donated to mozilla recently? Most other browsers are funded by tracking and advertising. If we don't support them they need to find funding elsewhere, and the people with the deepest pockets are AI/surveillance tech investors and advertisers. 

Privacy and security isn't free or easy - there is a collective responsibility to support it.