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Here is the list of things that piss me off about firefox:

  • It is dogshit slow
  • It eats up a ludicrous amounts of RAM, which I wasn't expecting since it's one of the main things people make fun of chrome for
  • It crashes constantly
  • It tries to push it's "AI" bullshit on me despite me turning it off on multiple occasions
  • It puts ads on my home page
  • It needs to be relaunched regularly because at some point it becomes too laggy to use. It even stops loading pages altogether
  • "Restore previous session" feature doesn't work half the time so restarting the browser is absolutely terrifying
  • Profile management is a mess

Are there any alternatives? Is Brave any good?

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[-] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 37 points 6 days ago

I've been using Firefox for years, and I've never noticed ai being forced into it.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

I'm talking about this thing that keep popping up with seemingly every update:

There was also some "AI summary" thing that popped up once but I turned it off and won't come back now thankfully

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago

The AI shit is new. To disable it all, type about:config in the address bar and turn all these to false:

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.menu

browser.ml.chat.shortcuts

browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

[-] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oooh thanks for this. I wasn't staying on top of the new settings so this is really helpful.

If anyone is making these or other about:config changes you need to restart the browser to effectively save them.

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