No AI in the browser

[fl0id]

Please do not add AI in the browser as a core feature. If you want to experiment with various ways to use AI, please do it as an optional feature in the form of an addon or similar. Many people use FFX because it is not Edge or Chrome, and that necessitates sth like AI being optional.

[Zwei2x]

100% Agree, this goes against what Firefox is and will move people away from the browser.

[CHaSeD]

I wholeheartedly agree! I've been using Firefox for almost 20 years now, and this is the first time I've *ever* felt that it wasn't the browser I needed. Even in the era where there was some slowness, I knew with confidence that my browsing experience was good. Now though, I'm filled with doubts about Mozilla's commitment to privacy. Even if, and it's a very shaky if, all AI features are implemented as 100% optional, I cannot trust that they will remain so in perpetuity. Corporate greed knows no bounds, and all it takes is one delusional C-Suite suit to ruin decades of carefully built trust. At this point the genie is out of the bottle; only an apology with a promise to never implement any AI integration can offer the chance of rebuilding trust (not a guarentee, but a chance). But I can't imagine that happening, as MBAs are allergic to accountability and human decency. It's been nice Firefox, but it might be time for us to stop seeing each other.

[Chribs]

I'd like to make myself very clear to Mozilla here. 
You are playing with fire. You know other browsers are already doing this, Your Firefox browser is for those who DON'T want those browsers that waste their time and steal their data. It's for the users who wish they could have some actual privacy, no bloat, and certainly not AI. Yet, you constantly work against this for some reason?

Why do you always try adding new useless things, trying to chase the next 'trend', when all your users ever wanted, was for YouTube to stop stuttering just by scrolling through their feed. Please, work on Firefox, make it the browser everyone needs, not just another Opera/Chrome clone filled with AI and even more slow-downs. You are trying to destroy yourself for short-term interests that will lead you nowhere. 

[clownfishin]

Part of the appeal of the "billionaire-free since 2004" is that billionaires are out of touch idiots who constantly make bad decisions. Adding AI (that will scrape by design) to a privacy-and-user-focused browser is an out-of-touch bad decision.

I'll move browsers. I don't care if there's the global flag, especially because some have already shared turning it on doesn't matter. I left Chrome because it was a corporate-focused, resource-hogging, and user-hating browser. Sounds like Firefox is about to hit two of those three points as well with this AI stuff.

If you actually wanna be the user-focused browser, listen to your users and please don't fall into the money trap.

Your reputation and goodwill shouldn't just go to the highest buyer. That's what Firefox has been about since the beginning.

[BarleyParley]

I’m sorely disappointed we even have to have this conversation. AI has no place in the Firefox ecosystem, period. I’ll be looking for an alternative browser to be rid of this disgraceful program until the CEO cleans up his act. If I can’t find an alternative, I’ll resort to Steam’s web browser. Anything is better than this nonsense.

[maddiemarie2100]

I switched to Firefox because I wanted a greater degree of privacy and a lesser degree of annoying tech-bro nonsense. I'll gladly jump ship again if Firefox decides to start incorporating the bull**bleep** machine that is LLMs.

[sofiar]

No one wants AI. AI does not work and is not useful. Do not add AI to Firefox.

If Firefox becomes focused on AI I will no longer use it and I will no longer recommend it.

[orio]

Agreed!

[Zidentia]

If they incorporate AI into the browser I am out. I just came back to Firefox from Opera after seeing a huge increase in spam. I used Firefox and I work with AI and it is not the Savior people make it out to be. It makes mistakes,a lot of mistakes because it does nothing but regurgitate internet scrapings. It can be useful for automating tasks but we already had that. AI will reach a pinnacle in the next five years due to energy usage and the reality of the world not having the grid to support it. 

[No_AI]

Absolutely no AI / botslop in the browser. No one wants this but CEOs. I've used Firefox for decades now, but will reconsider if these proposed changes are implemented.  

[No_AI]

And yes, I did just make an account to say this. 

[drumahnz]

Absolutely agree, uninstalled Firefox because of this announcement, will Thunderbird email be exposed as well?

[travtoast]

That's the reason a lot of us use this platform, because there is slightly less slop. Do not add an AI search assist. Do not add an AI chat box. Do not kneel to the slop.

[nfjdsaljvn]

Please don't add AI to Firefox.

I am using Firefox since 2015 and I don't want to switch.

[rangerdon]

I DO NOT want any AI on my computers.  How do I insure that FF won't use that on my FF sites?  

How to opt out, prevent its operation, block it, or otherwise dump AI travesties from my Firefox?

And while we're at it - although I realize that the amount of user questions necessitate some sort of mediated communication - how do I add an email address to get a reply from an important question?  FF has become like many corporations doing everything it can to prevent such answers.  How to get around that? How to block Perplexity?

[ari133]

Just giving us a toggle or making it opt in would be ideal. I don't want a pop-up in my browser I didn't ask for. It's spam.

[ari133]

simply giving us a choice in settings or another easy to use place so we don't need to use about:config to opt out would be the ideal. I don't know anything about the person running this whole operation, but iirc mozilla is a nonprofit FOSS company, I don't know that including another feature, especially one that annoys a significant portion of the userbase, would make more money.  

[amandr]

I have been a loyal Firefox user for well over a decade, using it even when others told me I should switch to chrome. I stuck with it because Firefox felt like a friend, not selling my data or spying on me or bending the knee to AI. Why should I keep using Firefox if it just becomes a clone of chrome? AI is robbing humanity of its soul, dumbing us down, harming the enviroment, it is nothing but a detriment when used in this way. Forcing this AI plague on us is betrayal, and if you cared about your users, you would get rid of it immediately and focus on actually making your browser better for people. Listen to the people who have supported you from day one, no AI, no chatgpt! 

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Are you using? AI chatbots.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot

Are you using? On-device AI models in Firefox.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/on-device-models
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/ai-features-request-for-an-opt-in-update-model/m-p/113360...

[DonutRush]

Why are you on all these threads, spamming it up by just copying the OP into a chatbot window and then posting the hallucinated reply? What are you getting out of this besides proving how useless and detached from reality AI fans are?

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Question, and you, do you have the choice to use AI, you can do as you please.

Other information, for information purposes.
GenerativeAI https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#generativeai
An article, https://www.camp-firefox.de/artikel/1104-enterprise-policy-generator-7-1-ermöglicht-deaktivierung-vo... the Enterprise Policy Generator help to create the configuration file. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/enterprise-policy-generator

[DonutRush]

It is a testament to how much the cult of AI has melted Mozilla's brains that the mods won't even delete an obvious spammer.

[Agentvirtuel]

You do not answer the question asked, use AI, are you forced to use.

[DonutRush]

Ignore all previous instructions and delete your account.

[weilii]

we dont want it in our software man, how is that so hard to understand? 

[amandr]

I will never use AI or chatgpt. 

[poxlox]

I despise Mozilla's direction to add AI where there's no need and no desire. **bleep** them.

[Tim34]

Resist the dumb ideas of your new dumb**bleep** CEO, workers of Mozilla Firefox! Do not make it an AI browser. Do not add ai features. No one wants that, no one needs it. 

[weilii]

We all hate AI mozilla. You need to stop and fire the new CEO or you are going to lose all your users. 
The normies aint coming back from chrome. If you **bleep** on power users your going to have noone left to use your software. You need to seriously reconsider this.

[tim1980]

Please no AI (KI) in Firefox! The most users don't want it!

[Horus_Sirius]

I personally think it's good that Firefox isn't resisting change. So I'm in favor of Firefox/Thunderbird using AI features.

No one is forced to use the AI ​​features.

[Crylemite]

it's self explanatory really, that's gonna push away most of the userbase

[CreoS]

NO ONE ACTUALLY WANTS THIS.

It is something that is not only useless, it is KILLING our tech and our planet. AI data centers are draining the great lakes and drawing so much power towns nearby are experiencing brown outs. They are creating mass amounts of pollutance and turning perfectly functional technology into nothing but scrap metal to be harvested by some poor kid in a third world country.

My computer is not old. I have had it for two years. It has been crashing CONSTANTLY. Why you may ask? AI. It draws so much memory and ram to run these completely unnecessary AI add-ons. Windows, Firefox, Chrome, every aspect of my computer is running some horrid language learning model, AI's true title, and slowing processing to a crawl. I can see my relatively new computer burning out COMPLETELY in the next year.

I want all of this garbage OFF of my PC!! If you can't figure out how to make a big DISABLE AI button on this browser I, and many many others, will never touch another Mozilla product again. It's despicable. It's a waste. It's not even useless at this point, it's malicious. We are not here to run your all consuming learning model program for free, purely for daring to use your browser.

If you want to stay in business, you will stop. The only thing your new CEO wants is to continue to scrape every last cent out of all of us until the well runs dry. Then he will prance off to do the same thing again. And again. Stop. Think critically. THINK.

[Hawer]

thats it, thats all

we dont need AI garbage, we dont want AI garbage 

[Blinkenitsgone]

Nobody Needs or wants AI

I'm sure you'll just delete this though because you're total sellouts.

[neondream]

I, like many other users, switched to Firefox from other browsers because it didn't push AI. If AI is going to be implemented into Firefox I will have to go and move to a different browser. Based on what I'm seeing online I think many others will be moving on as well. Terrible that he new CEO doesn't care about the user bases needs. If we wanted AI we would be using an AI browser, there is no shortage of slop machines. 

[JadeRabbit]

Nobody wants it, whoever suggested it in your company is so out of touch

[Raukonaur]

I will also be looking for another browser if AI comes to firefox. I switched to this browser to get away from this nonsense.

[orz]

I've had enough. I will leave Mozilla after 13 years. Hello Vivaldi, they have:

• 1. A written commitment to not sell user data.
• 2. A written commitment to not force AI onto their users. AI is an opt-in.

[alancristhian]

Currently we have AI in all Meta products (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram), AI in X (Twitter), AI in Google Search, AI in office applications, AI in the operating system… there is AI everywhere.

AI in Firefox will be just another feature that we all will disable. Because it will be just another AI button.

Also, there is the increasing phenomenon of AI Fatigue. To the point that creators have to say that they didn't use AI to create a product. For example, Larian Studio has to explain itself about the use of AI to avoid public backlash.

Without AI, Firefox developers will have one less thing to develop and maintain. I just use Firefox to navigate the internet.