Try Out Perplexity AI Search in Firefox 139!
Try Out Perplexity AI Search in Firefox 139!
Hi everyone, I’m Gayatri, the product manager for Firefox Search. With Firefox, you already have more choice in how you search the web than anywhere else — and now, we’re giving you even more. You've told us you want an AI search partner — so we're launching an experiment with Perplexity, an AI-pow...
Is the feature request page an astroturfing campaign or is there really such a pathetic crowd within Firefox's userbase?
Firefox could've added Mistral or Deepseek and they could've made money charging for zero-data-retention inference on Mozilla's servers. But no, they would rather to do free work for a marketing company (that's what Perplexity is - they're not even an "AI" company - their best products are finetunes of Meta's and Deepseek's open-weight models and these finetunes are somehow stupider than the originals).
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Enshittification, here we come
I hate options too!
I have no problem with this, some people seem to like it, and it's completely optional and easy to remove.
Don't need it. Just need a good, unbiased search engine, kind of like what google was at first... But I like that you listen to your users. :-)