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.

[ihateai26]

THIS
Mozilla please do your jobs and just make a browser that doesnt have spyware like chrome or is unstable/buggy.

We dont need your nasty little AI slop.

thanks.

[Leon42]

Yes. Please.

Mozilla, whether it hurts your CEO's feelings or not, this is what your userbase wants. We don't want AI. We never will. We actively want the browser to NOT have AI. 

[boy]

I think most people don't understand what they are saying. Do you know what no AI means? I don't think you do.

I for one love the translation feature, not only because it's a useful feature in a browser but also because it's offline/local. And that's possible thanks to AI. I really want them to expand and double down on AI. TTS, STT, translation, summarization, OCR. These features are useful for most people.

[Leon42]

I know exactly what AI is. I want it gone, forever, from everything. Thank you for your concern, though.

[boy]

Hopefully they don't listen to the extremely vocal minority and reddit mob.

If they remove it, people who want to use it won't have the option anymore. Even if you choose not to use it, others should have the choice.

[dreadweather]

Agreed - we have as much AI in this browser as I want. I do not want any further integration.

[ArkhamLinuxUser]

100% agree. It should be either turned off by default or not integrated entirely. Their direction is not aligned with their users and it's clearly showing.

Ai can be useful but these companies need to respect the privacy and choices of the user. Firefox has done great with this (for the most part, until they started to heavily focus on the ai). Make these features an option and disabled by default and let the user decide what they want turned on.

[stolenart]

In a world increasingly being ruined by generative AI we need tech that stands against it and centers humans.

[retroracoon]

Firefox is my escape from AI. Don't force this on us even as an Opt Out. 

[BezKa]

No AI is all I ask

[lightzero]

Keeping this optional as an addon is good compromise and iirc, something that has been done before.

[vyteshark]

agreed

[linguini]

I am tired of AI being integrated into every product. This will push me away from using Firefox. Please make the AI integration an optional extension to the browser and not a core feature.

[IrrerIgel3000]

I wholeheartedly subscribe to that proposal.

Let the Firefox users stay clear of this opaque AI box unless they explicitly want to.

In this hype cycle of AI slop, usertrust is the true resource.

[Addymerry]

indeed consider that there's an entirely different market that's especially been growing as of late with a desire for a real open net

[deadite66]

Any AI should be an opt-in feature.

[C-Alucard]

Seriously, no one wants an AI browser.

Take that money and fix all the compatibility issues Firefox mobile has on a web designed for chrome. 

[Pikebot]

Agreed. Mozilla’s mission is supposed to be to make a better web, but generative AI and the wave of slop it’s generated is the biggest problem facing the web today. Other than pushing more slop on its users, Mozilla should be providing them tools to exclude AI content wherever feasible. 

[Cikkeo]

Agree. Mozilla, stop the AI nonsense. I just switched to Linux to avoid AI.

[SnackMaverick]

**bleep** built-in AI. If I want to use AI I'll go find it.

[jahn_reinhard]

I use Firefox as my browser of choice because it seems to be the only large browser not yet completely flooded with AI slop and bloatware. I'm incredibly disappointed that the new direction seems to be "becoming a modern AI browser". I don't care if I can opt-in or opt-out of AI tools for my personal browser experience - simply their presence presents a safety, efficiency, ethical and privacy concern.

The ONE THING that puts Firefox above other browsers and why it is gaining more users recently is because it hasn't jumped into the AI-toilet along with Chrome etc. Yet. If Firefox moves forward with the implementation of more AI tools, regardless of individual opt-in options, I will have no choice but to stop using Firefox. I am simply not interested in wading through excrement.

[DariusXCrow]

I agree, I am sick of every CEO drooling over AI.  I chose firefox because it's NOT like the other browsers and that **bleep** CEO is ruining everything!!

[aguirard]

If you oppose incorporating plagiarism software into Firefox, please kudos this idea: (1) No AI in the browser - Mozilla Connect 

[pixmusix]

I wouldnt mind if you had a different download called "firefox classic" or "firefox minimal" for no ai and really simple workflows.

That way you can keep your ai default experience on ff.

[Yump]

Mozilla is and has been putting much shadier things than AI in the browser, for years.  Just look at the payola clickbait garbage that is the first run New Tab page, for example.

Some concessions should be made to AI derangement syndrome because of the userbase, but y'all shouldn't internalize it. A big global opt-out for Local ~AI~ and feature-by-feature opt-in remote AI (like the chatbot sidebar) is enough.

[Llamageton]

Same. Don't need unnecessary junk being shoved into my browser just because the CEO wants to make love to the shareholders.

[Toxic_Ninja]

Your CEO is a tard, please cease your trajectory, I've been using this browser since version 1 and this is the only time in history I've thought of switching. I'm still not going to chrome or edge, there are alternatives, I know this because I am now researching them.

[Toxic_Ninja]

Disregard, I've found out about Pale Moon, you can prolapse yourself for all I care, it was a good 24 years, please do not anticipate my donations this coming cycle.

[thebudger]

I second this. I use Firefox because it doesn't have all the distracting, useless features other browsers have. I don't want my browser to be full of AI bull**bleep** I have no use for. Companies are really overestimating interest in this stuff. Most people I know are dead tired of AI being added to everything. Please don't make Firefox part of that everything. 

[Ingratiated_Fae]

Mozilla PLEASE don't add llm bs to firefox PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't give in to fomo.

[rerunx5]

I do not need AI features in my browser which is Firefox. 

[talloahs]

It's not much, but I'll toss in $200 to anyone that wants to grab the last decent commit of Firefox and steer it towards Brave with stuff built in. Installing uBlock Origin shouldn't be a separate process.

This is way out of my wheelhouse but I've been with Firefox since Phoenix and Firebird days. Remember when it was the light weight fast alternative to IE? Then Chrome?

[A2x0]

firefox has been my safe haven for more than twenty years now, it is _the_ browser for me, and firefox is extremely important, some people will never understand just how important firefox is.

without firefox being a safe haven google will just do whatever they want because at that point they'd control everything.

please do not kill our safe haven!

[goldie]

For the love of Christ please focus on building a browser.

Let the industry take the tangent of realising no consumer wants an corporate AI snitch

[SIRGLASS]

100% agree , AI would be a great extension for an extension for those who want it, no need to build it into the browser .

[stopAI]

Agreed

[tanja]

Thank you all so much for this thread;

A little bit of hope for the future of Firefox.

Please, Mozilla, listen to us. We need a good browser. No so-called "AI". 

[LuigiPuzo]

The main reason I moved from Mozilla Firefox to Waterfox is because Waterfox has no AI.

• I work with INFORMATION SECURITY: I do not want AI on Mozilla Firefox, not even as something we can disable.
• Not even "easy to disable".
• AI on Firefox is not a feature, it's a liability.

The only way to give it the slightest chance is if it's "Disabled by Default" and the the user has to go through a wizard to Enable and CLICK TO USE.
(AI requires user conscious action to be used)
Several IT Security Professionals say the same - Take a look at David Bombal's YouTube Channel.

NO AI ON FIREFOX

[Randomhacks]

I entirely agree.  I don't want an agent looking over my shoulder at my screen.    Worth watching this video about AI in operating system (which frankly most browsers have almost become).  https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy#t=35

[biganimal]

No corpo slop in my browser, please.