06-21-2024 11:55 AM - last edited on 10-18-2024 02:19 PM by Jon
Hi folks,
In the next few days, we will start the Nightly experiment which provides easy access to AI services from the sidebar. This functionality is entirely optional, and it’s there to see if it’s a helpful addition to Firefox. It is not built into any core functionality and needs to be turned on by you to see it.
If you want to try the experiment, activate it via Nightly Settings > Firefox Labs (please see full instructions here).
We’d love to hear your feedback once you try out the feature, and we’re open to all your ideas and thoughts, whether it’s small tweaks to the current experience or big, creative suggestions that could boost your productivity and make accessing your favorite tools and services in Firefox even easier.
Thanks so much for helping us improve Firefox!
09-10-2024 07:25 PM
Please don't. I've been faithful to Firefox for a long time because I appreciate the simplicity, security, and sincerity of the browser. I switched over from Chrome because I was tired of their garbage years ago. If this gets implemented I will not hesitate to switch browsers.
09-10-2024 07:28 PM
No, I literally added an extension to keep googles AI garbage away from me. PLEASE DO NOT INTEGRATE AI, I'm begging you not to
09-10-2024 07:28 PM
Absolutely not. I will not accept the scourge of AI on every tech platform. Even DuckDuckGo was not spared of a mediocre chatbot. AI brings nothing but harm, and is a consistent source of misinformation that wastes energy and water. The public is disinterested and untrustworthy of generative AI, and if your company wants to keep its reputation, you will NOT integrate it.
I'm sorry, but AI is just a buzzword for shareholders, and will not be superior to simply researching things yourself, you can't advance by just shoving it in everything.
09-10-2024 07:28 PM
Hello! Please don’t do this. A large reason I’m using Firefox is because it does not have large in-built AI functions. They are horrible.
09-10-2024 07:31 PM
PLEASE do not integrate AI. It’s ruined every search bar that has had AI integrated, and I use Firefox because it retains a lot more of my privacy and feeling safe online. AI will do the opposite.
09-10-2024 07:34 PM
No. Bad. I would rather be shot. We do not need it.
09-10-2024 07:37 PM
if firefox users want to be lied to i'll do it without wasting a bottle's worth of water per query.
09-10-2024 09:26 PM
I wouldn't mind being lied to. Why does the sun get replaced by the moon at night?
09-10-2024 07:37 PM
DONT 👎🏽
09-10-2024 07:39 PM
Part of the reason I'm very big on Firefox is the large focus on privacy and security.
Adding an AI would very much go against the ideology- even if it's optional for now. I don't believe that there is a large market for AI extensions within the current user base.
09-10-2024 07:30 PM
Against. tl;dr:
Ultimately I feel there's no substitute for hard work and by leaning on the "quick and easy" way offered by Generative AI, we risk stagnating not just creatively, but as a wider Internet.
If Mozilla -must- offer a product with Generative AI, I would expect it to be something opt-in, such as an add-on or it's own separate program as say, Firefox Focus is to Firefox for mobile. If this is something that makes it into Firefox itself and my concerns remain, I cannot see myself continuing to support Mozilla.
09-10-2024 07:47 PM
Absolutely Not
09-10-2024 07:52 PM
please don't. we don't need ai in our lives and i would argue that it actively makes us less intelligent, less curious, less reliable, less diligent, and less able to understand the truth.
09-10-2024 07:53 PM
If I am forced to use AI I am abandoning this browser immediately.
09-10-2024 07:54 PM
NO AI. We don't want it! It's unethical, ineffective, and bad for the environment! Don't bother adding it, we're all just going to turn it off asap.
09-10-2024 08:00 PM
literally begging when i say please no. i'm so tired of the plagiarism machines, and EACH USE is like dumping 16oz of water right on the ground. who is asking for these things. why are they inescapable. i'm so tired. please don't do this.
09-10-2024 08:06 PM
NO
09-10-2024 08:08 PM
DO NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i use firefox both on my laptop and my phone. please do not do this.
09-10-2024 08:12 PM
Please do not do this, your lack of an "AI" was one of the main reasons I switched to you from Opera GX. Please do not make me regret that decision
09-10-2024 08:15 PM
Please do not do this. Statistically generated text cannot and must not replace our human critical thinking. It is inherently unreliable and undesirable. It is a solution in search of a problem, which will only create more problems in the long run, both fiscal and existential.
09-10-2024 08:17 PM
Unnecessary, harmful, just straight up not what i switched to firefox fori
If see it implemented (even as a turn on option) its migration time again
09-10-2024 08:23 PM
Thanks so much for helping us improve Firefox!
Every response I've seen from Mozilla employees here seems to make it clear that you're going to disregard any feedback you get that doesn't sound like an endorsement of this feature, so including this preemptive thanks rings pretty hollow to me.
Please, do not do this. If I wanted an LLM, there are so many ways I can get one right now thanks to every single company drinking this Kool Aid. I don't need it to be baked into my browser. It has nothing to do with my browser. My browser is an agent for fetching web pages.
I use Firefox because it seems more privacy-focused, standards-focused, and user-focused than the alternatives. Adding a lying machine sorry, "AI" to Firefox makes it clear that Mozilla is not committed to any of these things.
Please, be the one company that can look back in 10 years and say "man, glad we didn't jump on that bubble"
09-10-2024 08:31 PM
I have no desire for this feature whatsoever and it would make me consider using other browsers despite being a Firefox user for well over a decade. No, just no.
09-10-2024 08:39 PM
No thank you!! Im personally happy that firefox has no AI(it seems like) and id like for it to stay that way!! 🙏🏾
09-10-2024 09:06 PM
Hi! Please don't do this!
09-10-2024 09:07 PM
Please don't, the lack of AI is one of the main reasons I made the jump to firefox.
09-10-2024 09:12 PM
As an information and knowledge management professional I recommend people use Firefox as their browser over other offerings and suggest it is worth contributing financially to the maintenance and development of Firefox. As evidenced by initiatives such as this, Mozilla seems intent on making it so that I (and others like me) will no longer do so.
09-10-2024 09:17 PM
please don’t.
no one’s asking for it, we all want it gone already.
09-10-2024 09:19 PM
If we're copying other tech companies, copy the Opera tab stacking, not this AI **bleep**.
09-10-2024 09:20 PM
Knock it the **bleep** off. Have you not seen the catastrophic feedback to everything else adding AI slop to their programs?
09-10-2024 09:25 PM
I switched to Firefox recently to avoid the AI creeping into Chrome. If it makes its way here too, I'll leave just as quickly agaub,
09-10-2024 09:28 PM
is there a reason companies see other companies losing customers/users because of certain features and then go "we should do that too!" Are you all masochists? Do you crave bankruptcy? What is going on here.
No. No AI. thanks.
09-10-2024 09:28 PM
Please do not add AI. It will only make things worse.
09-10-2024 09:32 PM
Im fine with General use of of ai, but i think Generative ai of any sort should be likely left out of a brower due to its inability to understand truth.
09-10-2024 09:38 PM
I don't see what use it could provide that the searchbar in settings or an extension cannot. It's reductive and overall not worth integrating or considering turning on.
09-10-2024 09:39 PM
Hi, please do not add AI functions to firefox. In addition to being rife with misinformation and plagiarism, AI is also generally very bad for the environment. Please reconsider this addition and drop AI entirely. Thank you.
09-10-2024 09:42 PM
When I learned Mozilla embedded AI into Firefox, I was FURIOUS. I'm STILL furious. I've been a Firefox user since 2011, but if Mozilla doesn't remove the LLM slop from Firefox, I WILL find an alternative, and so will everyone I know. The steep environmental and ethical costs associated with so-called "AI" are in no way shape or form justified by the programs' underwhelming utility, and I'm disheartened to see Firefox jumping on this overhyped, underbaked, morally repugnant bandwagon.
In short: GET RID OF IT.
09-11-2024 12:54 AM
You could consider switching to Vivaldi. They have taken a stance against using "ai" in the browser.
It's Chromium based, and the Chromium browser dominance can be seen as an issue.
09-10-2024 09:41 PM
Please do not implement this. It goes against everything Firefox should stand for. There is no way using mass scraping of data promotes privacy. Generative ai has no ethical form nor practical use as it is full of stolen work and presents incorrect information as fact. Please please please do not add ai in any form even if we can opt out it is terrible all around. Don't fall for the trend of unethical tech be better!
09-11-2024 12:57 AM
Chatbots are horrible, and cause high blood pressure.
But an LLM, nor calling it "ai", summarizing search results can be usefull.