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AI controls is coming to Firefox
(blog.mozilla.org)
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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Also we have all seen this movie before. They launch with promises of having a choice to turn it on or off… until it’s no longer a choice.
When did Firefox take away a choice that was previously offered?
All the freaking time?
A lot of these are extensions that are folded into the main Firefox feature set, experimental features or not even related to the browser?
Pocket's dead now.
Like another user said, where's "open image in new tab"? (I notice you didn't reply to them.)
Remember XUL extensions and real browser themes?
Remember when you didn't need a developer account to make extensions and you could distribute them via your own website?
But of course, Firefox never takes away choices that were previously offered.
Didn't people generally hate pocket's forced integration? Anyways I've never said that they've never removed features nor was disagreeing that what you said isn't generally true. It's just that the list posted has a lot of examples that aren't exactly a removal of a Firefox feature which hurts the argument being made. There's more than enough reasons as you mentions to make a case for it.
I don't see where's the relevance in pointing out that I didn't reply to another user's post when I'm in agreement with them.
Relax man, let's have a civil discussion that doesn't devolve into sarcasm.
Pocket was originally an extension before Mozilla forced integration and bloated it into something it wasn't. The "something it wasn't" part, Stories, is still Firefox bloatware but without the Pocket label.
The "open image in new tab" context menu option, off the top of my head, it has been 1000 small things with them, no 1 outrageous removal, but tons of them that didnt make big impacts yet still annoyed people who used them.
Edit: It was actually "View Image", "Open Image in New Tab" was the alternative that remained. It was removed in v88
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