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A modern AI browser

Posted Dec 17, 2025 15:55 UTC (Wed) by denials (subscriber, #3413)
In reply to: A modern AI browser by rrolls
Parent article: Mozilla gets a new CEO: Anthony Enzor-DeMeo

The in-browser translation is the one AI feature in Firefox that I've appreciated. That's a great combination of usefulness and protection of privacy (vs dumping text into deepl or Google Translate).

Everything else they've done so far, I want turned off. Which currently means turning it off manually in every instance of Firefox I use, because those preferences don't sync.

The Mozilla Connect community forum has been filled for months with complaints about the existing AI features and begging the organization to just focus on being a web browser. The new CEO is ignoring their own community.

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A modern AI browser

Posted Dec 18, 2025 10:19 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] (1 responses)

The Mozilla Connect community forum has been filled for months with complaints about the existing AI features and begging the organization to just focus on being a web browser. The new CEO is ignoring their own community.

Or those who (a) subscribe to the community forum and (b) feel strongly enough about the existing AI features to complain. There might be a silent majority that either likes the existing AI features just fine but doesn't want to engage in a shouting match with the AI detractors in the community forum, or quietly ignores the existing AI features outright, or else doesn't show up in the community forum in the first place.

The Mozilla people should obviously take note of what goes on in their community forum, but it would also be reasonable to assume that for them, the community forum is not the only source of input on what Firefox users are thinking.

A modern AI browser

Posted Dec 19, 2025 9:53 UTC (Fri) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

Mozilla doesn't listen to feedback that they should focus on the browser anyway so lots of people have probably given up on that one.

And similarly, AI hype (and a tendency to put the latest hyped stuff into everything in general, see blockchain and cloud) seems to affect most CEOs anyway, no matter what anyone else says, so most people opposed to that have probably given up on trying to make them see sense by now too.