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Firefox 144 adds profile management... and AI slop search engine (www.firefox.com)
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Perplexity AI Search in Firefox

On desktop, Firefox now includes Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine built into the browser. Perplexity delivers direct, conversational answers to complex questions, helping you get quick summaries, accurate references, or creative inspiration without digging through multiple sources. It’s rolling out worldwide from the address bar via the unified search button.

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lenin-rage Again I must go into my 100+ line firefox configuration and remove this shit.

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[-] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

i just switched to firefox and saw this shit and feel like im just making the same mistake that i was making with chrome

do i switch to brave or what im too old i cant keep up with this shit anymore

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Brave has both crypto and ai slop with a chud CEO who got kicked out of Mozilla for being a terrible person to work with.

You just have to stick to firefox and remove all the garbo, there's things like ffprofile and arkenfox that help. You can also use the community patched version called Librewolf for something more ootb.

[-] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

im just gonna throw my electronics into the ocean where they belong and find a big rock to live under

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I mean if it's good enough for car batteries it's good enough for ewaste

[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

frog-no-pretext

[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Someone has to charge the electric eels

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

Just use LibreWolf or smth

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Been using the Firefox forked Zen browser and been somewhat pleased and rarely displeased (a few bugs but nothing inherent to the design of the browser)

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

lynx

[-] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago

I'm sure there's something in about:config to switch it off

[-] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

stress well at least we have forks

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Forks imply that the labor and expertise that Mozilla's engineers provide are replicated. This is not the case.

What we have are downstream distributions of Firefox, still beholden to whatever direction that Mozilla wants to take FF. This is why I'd still recommend using Mozilla Firefox with a profile configuration that sets everything to your liking since you don't have to trust downstream distributors.

[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I'd still recommend using Mozilla Firefox with a profile configuration that sets everything to your liking since you don't have to trust downstream distributors.

This only applies if you know what every setting in your config does, and you don't use an install script. If you're blindly running a config script or copying a profile, you still need to trust a third party the same amount as you would for a downstream.

[-] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know... hence the stress especially after chromium but I heard vanadium is great but I don't have graphene

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Vanadium is.... fine? It has a lot of security hardening and a little privacy stuff, but inadequate ad blocking and no extensions. The best choice for a general browser on Android is IronFox, a hardened Firefox distribution. I save Vanadium for sites that need Chrome.

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True, but let's be real, if the Firefox devs ever decide or are forced to remove about:config, we are all truly effed in the a.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Then you'll have to use GNOME Web lol. There's some people working on it.

[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

This looks like they just added a new search engine option that you can remove via settings. Honestly, good for them. Perplexity is clearly spending a lot of money on marketing right now, and at least Mozilla is getting a piece of the pie.

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah this fucking sucks obviously but I kinda get Mozilla, they're really stuck between a rock and a hard place in this capitalist economy. On one hand you actually want to deliver a good open source project that's more or less privacy and user-control focused but on the other hand you have to sell your soul to the capitalist overlords if you want to support the development.

I fucking hate it but I'd imagine most Firefox developers hate it too yet they push on.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I wish I could believe this but if you look at their CEO salaries and corporate structure.... Yeesh I guess hard place in capitalism is right.

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Perplexity is CIA. They got funding from in-q-tel and the ceo openly attacks China for no reason.

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