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Getting back on the #Mozilla topic (sorry): they did not release the state of mozilla 2025 report, as they usually do.
But we can find the 990 filing for the Mozilla foundation of year 2024 which was submitted in November 2025: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200097189/202543219349326304/full
I wasn't a good year as investment revenue dropped, while expenses kept growing, resulting in a loss of $4 million.
In the expenses, almost $11 million were invested in advocating for "trustworthy AI".
“When you advertise on Mozilla’s Firefox and MDN Web Docs, you’ll connect with over 210 million selective, discerning, brand-loyal users. Because they trust us, they’ll trust you.”
– Mozilla
🤣
Ultimate betrayal.
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The image shows a Twitter post by user Theo ([@]theo) with the text "This is one of the wildest git diffs I've ever seen", accompanied by a GitHub - style Git diff interface. The diff indicates 7 files changed with +39 and -44 lines changed, for the file path bedrock/firefox/templates/firefox/includes/structured-data-firefox-faq.html. On the left (deletion side), a Q&A entry shows: [@]type: 'Question', name: 'Does Firefox sell your personal data?',, with an accepted answer [@]type: 'Answer', text: 'Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That's a promise.'. On the right it's blank.
Dunking on people and companies is more popular than saying anything positive, but, #mozilla with #firefox created the web as we have it today.
Without them, without Gecko, we might be trying to run Internet Explorer 6.1 service pack 15.
Y'all don't remember how broken the web was with ie6 as the only viable browser. ActiveX, VBscript. Transparent PNGs were <object>s!
Nothing worked outside of ie6.
Give them the benefit of the doubt. They want an open and usable web.
@firefoxwebdevs @jesterchen @duke_of_germany
Immediately restore the work of japanese language translators that you paved over with AI slop
https://linuxiac.com/ai-controversy-forces-end-of-mozilla-japanese-sumo-community/
I'm sure you are all as tired as I am of Mozilla's bullshit. But this is a good look into the deceptive patterns they use in Firefox to please get anyone to use their "AI" stuff: «Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews»
How about that for a kill-switch, @firefoxwebdevs?
Oh ffs, @mozilla! This "Welcome back" pop-up coming up after not using Firefox for a while is not having the effect you hope it has.
All I see is a dark pattern to get me to accidentally change my default browser.
Notice how there is not a "No thanks" button? You have to X out or deselect those options manually.
I wonder if this is new, macOS only or already changed. I searched for that pop up and found only a different variation still with a "Not now" button - which isn't great but a bit better.
#firefox #darkpattern #mozilla
@firefoxwebdevs @zzt This doesn't feel honest. Maybe from you personally, sure. But not from Mozilla or the Firefox team.
That is like, I decide the car you get. The brand, the model, the color. But hey, don't worry, your voice is important too, so you are allowed to decide what bumper-sticker I will put on your car.
Seriously, this fake inclusion is kinda insulting.
Again, nothing personal against you. But where else should I share my opinion, consider Mozilla even ignores its own feedback platform 🤷
Developing a new Web browser is by now an endevour comparable to the Apollo missions - and probably even more complex.
There are 1191 W3C specifications and recommendations out there right now (actually a bit less than the time when that article was written in 2020).
That’s about ~110M words.
Put togeter the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 9580 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of the 10 longest novels, and you still won’t reach that many words.
Even building a fully POSIX-compliant operating system is by now 1-2 orders of magnitude less demanding than building a fully W3C-compliant #browser.
I guess that’s probably why both #Google and #Mozilla feel free of enshittifying as much as they like and get away with it.
Hey, Mozilla. Stop shoving AI into every part of Firefox, start listening to your user base again, and go back to your roots. If you do this, I will start donating again. Until then, your emails are going to spam.
And by the way, I unsubscribed from your emails. Why are they still coming to my inbox?
So I just uninstalled firefox from my android device. Forced myself to use it simply because...it's firefox, but honestly Vivaldi is so much powerful on mobile. With Vivaldi I can quickly change the zoom level on any page making the text more readable...with Firefox the only option is to pinch with two fingers enlarging text and images and making the page impossible to read. So bad. So sad.
Will 2026 be the year that Mozilla realizes the mistakes they've made and start listening to their user base and go back to their roots?
I know, I know, but I can dream.
Nach Nutzerprotesten: #Firefox bekommt kompletten KI-Abschalter | iX Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/Firefox-Mozilla-verspricht-AI-Kill-Switch-nach-Kritik-an-KI-Strategie-11121377.html #ArtificialIntelligence #Datenschutz #privacy #DSGVO #GDPR #Browser #Webbrowser #Mozilla #MozillaFirefox
I have disabled every fucking piece of AI bullshit I can find from Firefox and DESPITE THAT today I got ambushed by a new ASK AN AI CHATBOT line in a fucking image context menu
jesus FUCKING CHRIST @mozilla
STOP.
FUCKING.
PUSHING.
THIS.
SHIT.
ON.
US.
(I know the account's abandoned. Don't care. Best I've got. Fucking Mozilla.)
I think I will love this new Firefox feature. Thank you @mozilla
Firefox is Adding Split View for Tabs, Here's How to Enable It - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/enable-firefox-split-view-feature
#Mozilla delivers the same kind of underhanded biased questions I got about AI adoption at work.
Where's the option for "I try AI features out when they are made available, but haven't found them to be useful so far"?
Is it so hard to believe that there are people who are open minded and yet still not finding value in these features?
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A survey from Mozilla about Firefox, in which their AI-related questions basically make you choose between "I haven't tried it yet", "I love it", and "I hate AI".
Finally I drew this #comic about #Mozilla #Firefox market share. For me it's not even (only) about AI mess but whole trend I see, with company ignoring user base and focusing on wrong things.
I once wrote here, or on previous profile, that every time Mozilla-related hashtags are popular, I am rather afraid what they broke, not excited about new updates or features.
Meanwhile in my main private machine Firefox is so memory-devouring I have to turn it on only when I need, do my thing and quickly turn off. This is almost 5 years now, with some experiments in config, removing unnecessary extensions and reinstallation. I don't have more ideas how to fix it other than browser change
#drawing #nerd #geek #browser #krita
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Two panel comic, with "Be careful what you wish for..." headline. On first panel boy with fair hair, wearing darker brown shirt is talking to blue-skinned genie, near magic lamp on gray table surface.
Genie: "...and your last wish?"
Boy: "I want to see Linux market share... at least like Firefox share..."
On second panel, described as "10 years later..." now adult boy is sitting on desk with laptop, looking at charts displayed on wall above. There is a pie chart and line, marking gradual lower values in time. It is described as Mozilla Firefox market share.
Adult guy is thinking: "Damn! Not this way..."
There has been concern about Firefox evolving into “a modern AI browser,” but now Firefox developer says AI will be Opt-In, plus a kill switch to banish AI.
This is a good thing.
https://9to5linux.com/firefox-will-ship-with-an-ai-kill-switch-to-completely-disable-all-ai-features
If you are outraged over Mozilla putting "ai" features into Firefox, you should be just as offended by your search engine pushing, promoting, and profiting from them as well.
That is why I am giving @MetaGer a try. It ticks off most of the boxes of my search engine wish list. They respects your privacy by not spying on you, no ads, open source, nonprofit with a community led open governance model, custom filtering & prioritization, and most importantly they doesn't push a LLM onto you.
While I cannot find any mention of their stance on LLMs (please let me know if you have a source). Their social media posts seem to suggest they are not fans of it. The fact that they try to filter out slop and do not offer "ai" features is such a relief.
Since they do not have ads they rely on a donation of about €0.01 per search. I think that is reasonable. I am willing to pay for a good service that does not make me the product.
#MetaGer #Mozilla #Firefox #noai #ai #Privacy #Gemini #openai #chatgpt #SearchEngine #Search #DuckDuckGo #Google #Bing #Brave #StartPage #Yahoo #Ecosia #Qwant
So, with #Firefox becoming a slop browser, I think I can see where we're going. We are going to have 2 internets;
1 internet that is corporate, AI-filled, without privacy, browseable only with Chrome and Firefox;
1 internet that exists of stuff like the Fediverse, personal websites, and is usable with FF forks and older browsers.
These worlds will grow apart over time, and with the second category of browser, we will not be able to visit the corporate sphere anymore; the big platforms, online stores, maybe also things like WordPress sites, and notably, this will also include governmental sites and banking sites.
In the corporate browsers, we are always identified, logged, tracked. VPN and ad blockers will be banned. In short, government and corporations (which is becoming the same thing in the west, yay #neoliberalism ) will have full control here.
Most people will fall in line and reluctantly keep using the corporate browsers, while a smaller group will move to the "alternative internet" altogether, on which #enshittification and #ensloppification doesn't take place. (we're already here! yay!)
We end up being forced to use the corporate browser for some stuff that you can hardly get around - government, banking, contact with normies - not unlike how living without smartphone feels today.
So, just like it is living without a smartphone, I see us non-compliant people using some second device with the corporate browser, to manage that kind of stuff, while steering clear from it in daily life. (at most workplaces though, people will have no choice.)
These are my thoughts on which direction the internet seems to be going. At one hand, I wouldn't mind the internet splitting into two, so I can evade the corporate part.
But my problem lies with the part where we kinda can't get around having to go into the corporate sphere regularly, forced by majority culture as well as governments, which will be all too happy to have everyone nicely identifiable and compliant.
It can get really bad if the good part of the internet becomes outlawed, and that might well happen if we keep living under corporate/neolib/authoritarian governments. (talking about "the west" in general, not just the US)
Mozilla's new CEO said that there will be an AI "kill switch" for Firefox that will be available in early 2026.
How about you stop adding more AI shit to the browser until the kill switch is ready, Mozilla? I mean, you are so far gone from understanding your user base. At least do this.
Some good news for all remaining Firefox users: next year, you’ll finally be able to restrict extensions, so they only run specific domains.
New #Mozilla CEO: “Blocking ad-blockers in #Firefox could bring in an additional $150M in revenue“.
Sure, even extracting and selling one of my kidneys could bring me a big revenue, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.
Firefox by now has less than 3% of the browsers’ market share, and the only folks who still use it regularly are exactly those who don’t want ads constantly shoved in their faces, nor trackers to suck up every valuable detail about them.
And they are willing to go the extra step and use a browser that is less supported than the overwhelmingly Chromium-based crowd out there.
Take ad blockers away (and, most importantly, take away Manifest V2 extensions), and those few remaining users will just dwindle away to Brave, Vivaldi, Chromium/Cromite/Vanadium, or to support Ladybird/Servo, before you even finish saying the words “profit margins”.
And of course their collective hallucination with AI has now crossed into the realms of ridicule. Nobody knows exactly what kind of new useful features will be added nor how those will solve problems that users want to solve. All we know is that “AI is coming”, embedded in a lot of low-value features that nobody asked, and that some product managers rushed to release just because someone at the top of the food chain asked to “put AI in their product”, and with literally zero chances of competing against the AI features provided by the browsers of companies like Google and Microsoft who can afford to invest into AI 3-4 orders of magnitude more resources than Mozilla.
I’m wondering why Mozilla seems so committed to this mission of firing dumb CEOs just to hire someone who is even dumber and detached from reality than their predecessor.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
It's quite sobering to read that people bother others on the FediVerse, who clearly want nothing to do with LLM slop.
I've also seen something slop related creep into Firefox which I immediately stopped of course.
#LLM #AI #slop #miscreant #technology #Mozilla #Firefox #bot
#Mozilla #Firefox #DarkPatterns#antifeatures #AISlop #NoAI #NoAIWebBrowsers #AICruft #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #web
Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.
So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.
Waterfox entscheidet sich gegen KI
https://linuxnews.de/waterfox-entscheidet-sich-gegen-ki/ #waterfox #firefox #mozilla #ki #opensource #linuxnews
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I've now had at least four people, two of whom self-identified as Mozilla employees, claim that the above list of AI features--which were suddenly and rapidly added over the last few releases of Firefox, and were "on" (true) by default--could easily be turned off by flipping one master kill switch. This is not true, but folks keep claiming it or suggesting it anyway.Here's a post from an official Firefox Mastodon account suggesting such a master kill switch does not exist yet, but will be added in a future release:
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
That's not as bad as it could be. It's bad they're stuffing AI into a perfectly good web browser for no apparent reason other than vibes or desperation. It's very bad if it's on by default; their dissembling post about it aside, opt-in has a reasonably clear meaning here: if there's a kill switch, then that kill switch should be off by default. But at least there will be a kill switch.
In any case, please stop responding to my post saying there's a master kill switch for Firefox's AI slop features. From the horse's mouth, and from user experience, there is not yet.
Furthermore, when there is a master kill switch, we don't know whether flipping it will maintain previous state of all the features it controls. In other words it's possible they'll have the master kill switch turn on all AI features when the switch is flipped to "on" or "true", rather than leaving them in whatever state you'd set them to previously. Perhaps you decide to turn the kill switch on because there are a handful of features you're comfortable with and you want to try them; will doing so mean that now all the AI features are on? We won't know till it's released and people try this. So, in the meantime, it's still good practice to keep an eye on all these configuration options if you want the AI off.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #web #tech #dev #Firefox #Mozilla #AISlop #NoAI #NoLLMs #NoAIBrowsers
I've decided to try the #Vivaldi browser.
I don't want to wait around while #Mozilla #Firefox turns into an "AI browser". I'm wary of switching to one of its forks because it'll be harder and harder for them to keep up as Firefox continues down the road to perdition.
#Ladybird looks promising, but it won't be ready for prime time for a while, and I expect Firefox to to enshittify quickly. Also, I don't know what Ladybird's plans are for supporting extensions, and I use quite a few. (1/6)
win64 version 11 is in crisis.
Why do I talk about it? As an opensource user we are all affected negatively by LLM slop, think Mozilla
Coldfusion took a fantastic research view
#LLM #AI #Mozilla #thunderbird #firefox #POV #technology #Physics #programming #MicroSoft #coldfusion #copilot #slop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKjo8Oc2qLk
Mozilla adding AI features to Firefox instead of actually improving their browser's security (which lacks horribly) is a terrible choice to me. Not to mention that they had a tough time lately and probably need a good 'ol cash grab to recover (is that why?). Their action kinda reminds me of Proton with Lumo (that cat AI), like who is asking for those things anyway? Oh also I don't care that you can kill switch it. Just don't trust Mozilla and stay secure.
It's been over a month since #Mozilla posted to their community forum about #AI integration in #Firefox, and the overwhelmingly negative comments are still coming in.
Some are a bit hyperbolic ("I would rather burn down my house with my whole family in it") but yeah, hopefully they are paying attention to this feedback.
How to kill nearly 30+ years of goodwill: by going all in on AI.
That's what #Mozilla just did with #Firefox.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
It looks like they're going to finally kill themselves after a decade plus of mismanagement.
https://infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-kill-itself
Just thought I would do my part to help calm things down a bit:
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
and
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500918701463
Personal opinion from me:
- There are some very cool new features coming to Firefox.
- There is no need to go crawling through about:config to turn things off. Never really has been.
- There are many contributors all over the world continuing to do awesome work writing code, providing user support and localising all the things.
@yakkoj nodds in agreement Personally I want #Mozilla to hand over #Firefox to either @Waterfox / #Waterfox or @torproject / #TorBrowser devs.
@firefoxwebdevs @Norgg This is nonsense equivocation.
It is 100% clear to anyone not trying to run cover for #Mozilla that multiple #GenAI features have already been introduced into #Firefox as opt-out rather than opt-in. This isn't questionable or debatable or complicated, it's simple fact.
You've given us no reason to believe this is going to change.
Trying to obfuscate this away in this thread makes it clear you're being disingenuous, whether or not you realize you are.
@firefoxwebdevs @Norgg Furthermore, opt-in isn't even enough.
It's not that we want it to be opt-in, we want it to not be there at all, because #GenAI is bad for tech and bad for the people whose content is stolen and bad for culture and bad for the whole fucking world, and we want #Mozilla to take a stand for what is RIGHT, not jump on the catastrophically bad AI hype train and join every other company in the bubble.
Doing AI at all, opt-in or not, is doing the wrong thing.
#Firefox
@radmin @TheZeldaZone and why people like myself want #Mozilla to habd it over to @torproject ...
Timeline auf.
Masochisten, die freiwillig #Linux installiert haben und jetzt unironisch glauben, sie hätten irgendeinen Vorteil davon, den Quellcode, den sie nicht verstehen, anzugucken, kriegen einen Nervenzusammenbruch, weil #Mozilla völlig überraschend vor einem Jahrzehnt aufgehört hat, einen guten Webbrowser rauszubringen, und ihnen anscheinend die Nase abfiele, nutzten sie einen Webbrowser mit ohne öffentlichen Quellcode.
Timeline zu.
Kann man schon Schnaps?
Now that #Firefox is going full AI mode… time to focus on the #Browser project I started called Inori, hosted on #Codeberg!
Currently, it’s just a fancy HTML parser in #C and #Swift but it could become a good browser with #OpenSource community contributions in the future.
It supports only #macOS currently but at some point maybe even #Linux or #FreeBSD too?
I might lay out what I plan for Inori in the replies.
1 mainstream web browser has said, NO AI.
Vivaldi web browser.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #Firefox #Mozilla
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The Vivaldi web browser logo. It is a red square with rounded corners, with a white circle in the middle, and a red letter V in the middle of that.
Mozilla's new techbro scumbag CEO vomits up a bunch of platitudes about "trust" one day, and then casually drops the knowledge that "blocking ad-blockers" was seriously considered the next.
way to torch a massive quantity of trust from the exact people you need using your product in order to keep it healthy and even marginally relevant, asshole.
I'm done with these slop-shoveling idiots. #Mozilla
Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
(Edited to fix link.)
WHAT???
The new Mozilla CEO has openly talked about a possibility of “blocking ad blockers” to get more money from the advertising industry (and paid subscriptions to Firefox…). That sounds like a disaster to even consider it publicly, as saying it aloud will increasingly crush people’s trust in Mozilla’s future.
“He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.”
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
I dumped Windows 10 in February 2025 and moved to #ZorinOS and wonder why I stuck with #Microsoft #Windows for so long.
Around the same time, after years of using #adblockers, I set up a #PiHole with #ubound dns for my whole home network. And after years of being a dedicated #FireFox fan, with the direction #Mozilla was taking, I switched to #Vivaldi.
Thanks to @pluralistic, I discovered #Kagi so sprung for a paid subscription. It reminds me of the way #Google used to be.
Today, I discovered #Tailscale and installed it get access to my #RaspBerryPi #PiHole to filter ads on my devices when I'm out of the house.
As I was setting up Tailscale, I discovered it supports a self-hosted #VPN, which is perfect for my use case, so I can take advantage of my fixed IP to access some remote services.
And after setting all that up, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that #Tailscale is #Canadian.
All-in-all, a productive year of IT infrastructure changes!
A lot of folks have asked me if I'm serious about relaunching Mozilla after their inevitable collapse.
What I can say with confidence is that if the brand assets become available, I would absolutely look into purchasing them, in the same manner Perifractic "resurrected" Commodore. I am no millionaire, so this would have to be a community-driven thing.
Imagine: everyday people like us banding together to resurrect our beloved browser. I'd absolutely do my part to spearhead that.
Third: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.He says the word "trust" a whole bunch of times yet intends to turn an otherwise nice web browser into a slop-slinging platform. I don't expect this will work out very well for anyone.
"It will evolve into a modern AI browser" sounds like a threat. Good way to start off on the right foot, new Mozilla CEO (sarcasm).
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AntiFeatures #DarkPatterns #AISlop #firefox #mozilla #NoAI
📝 Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
#mozilla #ai #opensource
https://infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-kill-itself
Looks like the new Mozilla CEO has some awful ideas for Firefox. https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo #firefox #mozilla #web
Core investment strategy: find ways to optimize Firefox and Thunderbird to express Mozilla’s values in the AI era — and sustain revenue. Look for adjacencies in AI. Innovate on monetization.
Guess I'll be looking for a new e-mail client then, huh?
contrary to many others saying new CEO of Mozilla has lost the plot, I actually gotta give credit where it's due. he is at least open and direct on the company's direction for the past several years, and future plans.
"he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million" is a clear warning shot. it's been a long time coming, and we as users have to prepare.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
Strong (as in good) response. https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/ #mozilla #firefox #waterfox
Reasons #mozilla will be dead within a few years
- They just appointed a CEO who has literally never built anything in his life except a PowerPoint deck
That's it. That's the list.
#Mozilla seems to be going all in on #ensloppification as a core feature of #Firefox. I have used #Thunderbird as my email client for years. I'm wondering how long it is until I need to start looking for an alternative desktop email client.
Mozilla leadership
(in ref to https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 )
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A four panel comic parody of an internet meme: "Putting on Clown Makeup", but this time the man is a fox with a tail in fire as a ref to the Firefox mascot.
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"
@mray There’s a non-trivial set of users who know #firefox , care about it, and actively choose it. #Mozilla ignores them and chases people who don’t know Firefox, don’t care what a browser is, and don’t even know they can choose. They’re willing to sacrifice a loyal fan base in the quest for big numbers of indifferent users. The definition of choosing quantity over quality.
Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
Link: https://infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-kill-itself
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299934
En parcourant les réseaux sociaux récemment, j'ai vu passer de nombreux messages alarmistes concernant l'intégration de l' #IA dans #Mozilla #Firefox. Pour beaucoup d'utilisateurs, l'association "Firefox + IA" sonne comme un véritable sacrilège, au point que certains cherchent déjà à changer de navigateur.
Pourtant, en creusant un peu le sujet (même si j'avais déjà ma petite idée), la réalité est bien loin de l'imposition forcée. Non, Mozilla ne nous impose pas l'IA.
@alberto_cottica - Basically the best we've got is LibreWolf (fork of Mozilla's Firefox) and Vivaldi (fork of Google's Chromium).
Both are privacy focused and reject AI.
I'm sorry, but if your web page doesnt load in Netscape Navigator v9.0.0.6, then I'm just not viewing it.
Versuch #3, mit Vivaldi warm zu werden. Bin ja bisher eiserner Firefox Nutzer und habe mir viel bieten lassen, aber die aktuellen Entwicklungen versprechen eine derart düstere Zukunft, dass ich es lieber schon jetzt einen Umstieg versuche.
Sehr, sehr schade. Denn ich schätze es total, dass Firefox eben _nicht_ Chromium nutzt, sondern eine eigene Engine.
Das würde sich mit Vivaldi ändern. Aber was soll ich tun? Mozilla hat total den Fokus und die Bodenhaftung verloren. Wenn ich noch etwas mit dem Namen "Mozilla" unterstützen will, dann ist es die Mozilla Foundation, welche u.A. Thunderbird pflegt.
Is #Mozilla new CEO actually threatening the removal of MV2 based ad blockers in #Firefox on his FIRST DAY as CEO?
"He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission."
Why is this even on your mind?
🤯
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
With @mozilla going full-slop “AI” browser and people asking what to use instead I want to make a “what not to use” toot.
Chrome and clones using Manifest v3 – the root of many Web's problems.
Ladybird – sponsored by fash and a fash apologist at the wheel, thus failing the duck test.
Brave – led by an ex-CEO of Mozilla, homophobe and a cryptobro, unsuprisingly that's one person.
“People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does.”
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
No, you muppet, people want tools that do what they need, not do crap they don’t want and be honest about it.
If someone tells you they’re a gardener, they should tend your garden, not piss in your face while telling you “I’m pissing in your face. If you don’t want me to piss in your face, you can opt out. Tomorrow, I’ll come back and piss in your face again unless you opt out.” If that’s what they’re doing, they’re not a gardener, they’re someone who pisses in your face.
I've been thinking about this for some years. As others have noted, the problem is that the market is accustomed to browsers being "free", ever since #Microsoft illegally leveraged their OS #monopoly to destroy #Netscape by driving their income to (essentially) zero.
I started thinking about it in terms of how I support various creators for small amounts with monthly #subscriptions. Could you fund reasonable #maintenance and #development of #Firefox purely based on low-cost subs from users? Bigger donations from companies or billionaires would be welcome, but it would need to be sustainable on its own first.
Development wouldn't have to be as expensive as what #Mozilla does (which is mostly counter-productive anyway...).
There are still millions of people - more than a hundred million, apparently - who use Firefox, and many of those are more knowledgeable about and involved with open-source #software. They're more likely to appreciate that funding development is the key to keeping Firefox relevant, and keeping the "AI" / #LLM / #advertising / #surveillance out of the #browser.
Some people are starting to pay a few bucks a month just for a search engine subscription. Why not pay for your browser? For many people, it's the software they use more than everything else put together. For some people, it's the only software they ever use.
I'd pay $2 a month to support my browser, if it kept it safe from <handwave> all that </handwave>.
2/x
If you follow #Firefox news at all, you will have seen the recent announcement of Mozilla's new CEO. And being a Fediverse denizen, you probably experienced a wave of disgust, nausea, betrayal, anger, and / or shame, because the new idiot is all-in on "AI" / LLM integration in Firefox.
The best brief summary of the announcement I've seen is this:
https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115730935437271047
If you prefer your hot takes a little saltier, this is another entry in the apparently unending series of self-inflicted injuries:
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115732207063445044
As others have noted, it's one of the clearest examples of a company getting their own customers' wants completely ass-backwards ever seen. And that includes topping all the "AI" announcements #Mozilla has made over the last couple of years, so it's really saying something.
There are community/volunteer #forks of Firefox that remove the #LLM #junk, but many people, including me, don't believe that's a particularly #sustainable model.
1/x
#browser #community #independent #NoAI #NobodyWants #AntiFeature
@Em0nM4stodon #Mozilla is a crystal clear case of the iron law of institutions:
People would much rather see their organization diminish in power than lose power within the organization
Since #Mozilla is trending today because of their stupid decisions regarding #Firefox, I thought I'd give another update about my moving to #Librewolf ten months ago, but sadly [happily] there is nothing to report. It's just been working rock solid. I don't see any AI things being pushed on me, just some regular security updates. No crashes, no issues, no mismanagement, no threats. It's been boring, exactly how a browser should be.
Okay, who's got plans for when Mozilla finally folds? They are barrelling towards a brick wall and have not taken their foot off the gas.
I'm typing this on Waterfox, but I worry that the Firefox forks will wither away once Mozilla's gone.
What's everybody going to use when that happens and/or what are you using now that's non-Firefox?
#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Gnome #Firefox #Mozilla #Waterfox #LibreWolf
I wonder what the @librewolf download metrics will be by the end of December. Might be a holiday project for me.
Is #Mozilla new CEO actually threatening the removal of MV2 based ad blockers in #Firefox on his FIRST DAY as CEO?
"He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission."
Why is this even on your mind?
🤯
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/
#HackerNews #NoAI #Here #Mozilla #Response #Waterfox #TechNews
Also, if the phrase "AI-first" comes out of your executive pie-hole, you've already lost. You drank the Kool-Aid and there's very little hope you'll ever decide to put the users' wants over the advertisers/AI-bundlers/swindlers/what-have-you. [1]
And since the guy they announced as CEO has already been the head of browser for a while now, it's clear when he says "AI-first", he really means it.
I'm torn between Vivaldi, or putting up with Firefox (on a *very* short leash) long enough for Servo to become a usable browser.
[1] Another way to say "AI first" is "users second" [2] .
[2] If at all.
#AIFirst #UsersSecond #NoAI #NobodyWants #Firefox #Mozilla #KoolAid
Mozilla have completely lost all understanding of their user base. And, honestly, I don't think they care. Like many others, I've unsubscribed from their newsletter, and have removed Firefox from all of my Linux hardware. The once great savior of the internet is now dead to me (and SO many others).
This is so disappointing.
https://www.osnews.com/story/144027/mozillas-new-ceo-firefox-will-become-an-ai-browser/
Firefox acabou pra mim, e agora é definitivo. (eu sei que sou lenta para reagir, sempre tento dar uma chance, precisa de muita gota para transbordar meu copo)
Eu uso vários navegadores para dissipar o fingerprinting (já que é difícil evitar), mas vou fazer questão de desinstalar o Firefox. Colocarei o Mullvad no lugar, caso algum site funcione melhor no Firefox (sim, acontece de vez em quando em sites europeus, por incrença que parível).
O navegador Vivaldi (@[email protected] ) seguirá como navegador principal. Além de ser bonito e cheio de recursos interessantes, a empresa é super ativa no Fediverso, tem instância aberta ao público, e são os únicos que estão ouvindo nossa comunidade e nosso desespero. A gente só quer navegar na internet tranquilo e com segurança, não deveria ser difícil. 🥺
#browser #mozilla #vivaldi
RE: mastodon.social/users/nixCraft…
AodeRelay boostedMozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices.
Full blog post https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
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A screenshot from the official Mozilla blog that reads: Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #懐かしい番組は
9: #johnmastodon
8: #一番懐かしい言葉言った奴勝ち選手権
7: #TuneTuesday
6: #tercinema
5: #mozilla
4: #firefox
3: #wrapstodon2025
2: #RobReiner
1: #ChristmasANonChristmasSong
Needs more blockchain-metaverse-agentic-nft-quantum-ai.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
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While #Mozilla wants to put even more #AI features into their #browser that nobody wants...
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
...#Servo has just implemented parallel #CSS parsing 🚀
Main PR for this change:
https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/40639
A lot of other stuff has happened in the Servo project during November - check it out:
https://servo.org/blog/2025/12/15/november-in-servo/
So: #Mozilla's got the next CEO with a corporate background determined to make yet another futile attempt to beat big tech at their own game, when in fact the obvious way to secure relevance and a good market share for #Firefox is, to combine privacy and security with good usability on all platforms.
Is there a single person on Earth, who would choose Firefox over Chrome or Safari for its "AI" features?
FOSS development is best run by nerds, not by corporate goons.
The conspiracy theory that claims that Mozilla is actually a retiring scheme for burnout siliconites and professional NGOs operators.
"Enzor-DeMeo has been the general manager of Firefox since August 2025. He joined Mozilla in December 2024 from Roofstock, a platform for real estate investors focused on the single-family rental marke"