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submitted 4 weeks ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

"It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox."

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

To my knowledge that literally only exists in the form of a Firefox fork like Librewolf. Which takes more effort to switch to than simply disabling a couple values in config.

[-] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

LibreWolf is very privacy focused and hardened by default in ways that impact convenience. Waterfox on the other hand? I'd say switching to that is easier than turning off all the shit you'd have to turn off in a fresh FF install. You copy the profile folder into the spot where WF stores its profiles, and you're done. All your everything is intact. History, cache, bookmarks, cookies, extensions, login sessions, settings (though your opt-out settings for garbage like homepage sponsored links or AI don't do anything anymore because there's nothing to opt out of).

I'd been using Firefox since it was Netscape Navigator. One toggle too many got me on Waterfox a few months ago. I have noticed absolutely no difference in my heavily customized browsing experience from the change, other than not having to go menu diving to turn off the new data harvesting anti-feature of the month.

this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2025
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