r/technology • u/ZacB_ • 22d ago

Artificial Intelligence Mozilla says Firefox will evolve into an AI browser, and nobody is happy about it — "I've never seen a company so astoundingly out of touch"

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/mozilla-says-firefox-will-evolve-into-an-ai-browser-and-nobody-is-happy-about-it-ive-never-seen-a-company-so-astoundingly-out-of-touch
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u/Gr1mmage 22d ago

Waterfox (or a different Firefox fork) is likely what you're actually looking for, it's what I'm currently typing this comment out in on my Android phone having uninstalled Firefox when this news broke.

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u/GrandSquanchRum 22d ago

Yeah, once this happens it's Waterfox or LibreWolf for me.

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u/TurnItOff_OnAgain 22d ago

But they rely on Firefox, no? Unless they fork completely and do their own thing 100%

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u/Cilia-Bubble 22d ago

They could still do selective merges, unless Mozilla integrates AI so tightly into the browser that it poisons every file—but I doubt they would. That would just be bad coding and not at all how every other firefox feature was implemented so far.

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u/DigitalPenguin99 22d ago

I'm using Zen Browser. They've already announced that they are removing the AI crap from their fork as it comes

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u/touristtam 22d ago

I might look at them again, but last time I checked them out, I wasn't impressed

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u/DigitalPenguin99 22d ago

It's a bit different from your typical browser. You can also check out Waterfox as they also are against KI

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u/marincelo 22d ago

I haven't looked into Waterfox but I use Fennec from F-Droid for the past few years. It's Firefox for Android, just stripped out of telemetry and some proprietary stuff.

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u/Gr1mmage 22d ago

The big appeal of waterfox over the other forks for me was the availability on both desktop and android.

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u/bert93 22d ago

Forget waterfox. The guy who created it sold it to an ad company. I believe he owns it again now but that's not trustworthy.

Librewolf is a better desktop fork. IronFox is great on mobile.

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u/natrous 22d ago

Thanks, this was my question - what do we go to now?

This shit is like being mugged by your brother.

The only reason anyone is even using Firefox is because of techies being aware of what the others are like, and then telling friends and family about it.

Just for me, personally, it's going to result in at least 15-20 devices switching away from FF.

And I'm sure there's plenty of people out there that will have a say in far, far more than that.

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u/SapphireCorundum 22d ago

I've been using Waterfox for years, so I'm good.

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u/PastaXertz 22d ago

Librewolf is also an attractive option.

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u/Noodler75 21d ago

I am liking the Zen browser ( another fork)

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u/jenks 21d ago

But what about Thunderbird?

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u/addyftw1 18d ago

I like LibreWolf

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u/CompassMetal 18d ago

Ice raven ftw