Mozilla's New CEO: It's Time to Evolve Firefox Into an AI Browser (www.pcmag.com)
from nil@piefed.ca to privacy@lemmy.ml on 17 Dec 07:18
https://piefed.ca/c/privacy/p/399655/mozilla-s-new-ceo-it-s-time-to-evolve-firefox-into-an-ai-browser

Mozilla Firefox is not a privacy browser anymore

#privacy

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fizzle@quokk.au on 17 Dec 07:39 next collapse

I’ve always defended mozilla after every dumb mistake, but I’m over it.

They’re pretty much just cooked at this point.

skarn@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Dec 16:49 collapse

Guess we’re going to have to go with Brave then.

…

Oh wait

Embargo@lemmy.zip on 17 Dec 07:46 next collapse

Haha Jesus. Seeya!

the_abecedarian@piefed.social on 17 Dec 08:06 next collapse

donate to servo!

clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Dec 08:13 next collapse

fuck this shit!

MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml on 17 Dec 08:20 next collapse

How about forking Firefox and make that into an AI browser instead of ruining the good old Firefox?

Kyrgizion@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 08:41 next collapse

Thank god for Librewolf.

iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 10:56 collapse

Which is a fork of Firefox. Librewolf lives and dies by Firefox’s continued development.

onlooker@lemmy.ml on 17 Dec 08:42 next collapse

The new CEO’s overarching goal is to turn Mozilla into the “world’s most trusted software company,” citing public dissatisfaction with today’s privacy practices and the tech industry’s growing appetite for all kinds of data.

What the fuck does this man think the industry is feeding the data to?

PixTupy@lemmy.ml on 17 Dec 08:51 next collapse

Sigh… another one down. Anyone know good alternatives?

AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Dec 10:45 next collapse

Librefox is a privacy focused fork of Firefox. And if what I use. I’ve also heard good things about waterfox

rozodru@pie.andmc.ca on 17 Dec 12:59 collapse

if you like vim navigation there’s Qutebrowser. I use that as my daily driver and I love it. will never use another browser again.

FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml on 17 Dec 19:21 collapse

qutebrowser is just Chromium under the hood (same goes for anything that uses QtWebEngine). doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebengine-overview.html

banazir@lemmy.ml on 17 Dec 08:51 next collapse

Christ.

gndagreborn@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 09:55 collapse

The last few months of tech news alone have me feeling like he ain’t answering his ring doorbell.

arsCynic@piefed.social on 17 Dec 09:09 next collapse

Zen, LibreWolf, and Waterfox strip Firefox clean of AI.

Zen is a feature powerhouse like Vivaldi, without the bloat. LibreWolf is privacy focused and ships with uBlock Origin by default.

Zen is my main browser. LibreWolf at work for stability. Waterfox works on PC and Android, but I only use it on the latter so can’t vouch for its performance on the former.

There are even more Firefox forks, but these are the one’s I use.

atrielienz@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 16:27 next collapse

What do you use for android?

daizelkrns@sh.itjust.works on 17 Dec 18:23 collapse

I tried to use Zen in my work computer but IT flagged it and made me uninstall it, due to privacy and security concerns. The approved browsers are edge, chrome and vanilla Firefox.

Go figure

arsCynic@piefed.social on 17 Dec 18:38 collapse

If you need to monitor operational processes from within a browser I wouldn’t recommend Zen. If you don’t, damn, that sucks ☹. I hope you can at least install uBlock Origin in vanilla Firefox.

njm1314@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 10:09 next collapse

I’ve been sticking with Firefox through thick and thin. All through the rise of chrome I stuck with Firefox. They sure are making it hard. Think I’m going to have to pull the plug soon.

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space on 17 Dec 10:24 next collapse

“New CEO”

Did anyone for a fraction of a second expect anything good to follow that part?

papercut@lemmy.ml on 17 Dec 10:40 next collapse

Ladybird can’t come soon enough

jimi_henrik@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 17:51 next collapse

If Firefox is now considered a bad choice based on what the new CEO said, what do you think of Ladybird’s leader?

drewdevault.com/…/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fasci… (relevant section about halfway through)

papercut@lemmy.ml on 19 Dec 12:45 collapse

Ffs why are so many open source developers twats?

Quokka@quokk.au on 18 Dec 09:34 collapse

Don’t use Ladybird, use Servo (It’s only 0.3, so I would advise waiting).

m105@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Dec 15:31 next collapse

Well…Waterfox kinda looks good

TheKaul@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Dec 19:09 next collapse

Personally I’ve heard of 3 other “Foxes”; Waterfox, Ironfox & Librefox. Anyone know the differences between these & the use cases? I’ve been wanting to switch off Firefox to something more privacy-focused and this has given me a good push to do so.

nkk@programming.dev on 17 Dec 19:51 collapse

IronFox is a privacy fork for Android, the rest of these are meant for desktop.

Waterfox is privacy-focused but more focused on convenience than Librewolf*.

Librewolf is also privacy-focused but leans further into privacy than Waterfox with the sacrifice of convenience.

Mullvad Browser leans even further into privacy than Librewolf with the sacrifice of convenience. Made by the Tor team and Mullvad.

*I haven’t used Waterfox much but this seems to be the consensus online

Personally, I use Mullvad Browser as a daily driver, and anything that doesn’t work on Mullvad Browser I use Librewolf or hardened Brave for. (Many people don’t like Brave but I like to have a privacy-focused Chromium-based browser for web development)

webkitten@piefed.social on 19 Dec 14:08 collapse

I have yet to hear an clear argument about why it’s time to evolve into an AI browser or how evolving into an AI browser can improve my day to day life.