Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode

Who the fuck asked for a Firefox AI browsing mode?

Dunno, but I'll be asking for a way to completely disable it.
- Probably LibreWolf.
- Which they will provide without being asked for it.

What the fuck does that even mean, "AI browsing"?

There is an AI browser war going on right now, see Comet (Perplexity), Atlas (ChatGPT), Claude AI Agent from Chrome etc.
They work by letting the AI continuously see everything your browser can see, such as your emails, banking details, financial habits, online shopping accounts, etc.
By doing so, they promise to be better digital assistants, so that you ask just ask the browser to do tasks such as online shopping, booking holidays, etc.
Even ignoring the severe privacy concerns, AI browsers are significantly prone to prompt injection. That is, any random webpage with hidden text can override the instructions you give it to carry out malicious attacks.
- Thanks for the explanation. I hate it.
Today, when you search for something you get a handful of ads, SEO-optimized bullshit, and maybe the 6th link will be what you were actually looking for.
When you tell the AI agent (in your browser) to search for something, not only do you get the most relevant results (because you can make your prompt vastly more specific and detailed), you completely skip all that other stuff that you didn't want.
I've been saying for some time now that AI is going to kill free search engines because it's such a better way to search for stuff. Free search engines like Google and SEO-optimizing companies are hindrances to efficient browsing and drowning the web in bullshit. Poisoning search results.
An AI agent will skip past all that stuff and give you just what you want; you never see any ads!
- An AI agent will skip past all that stuff and give you just what you want; you never see any ads!
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- ah yes, because there's no way the programmers won't induce bias in their AIs

Ewww. Talk about being tone deaf with their userbase…

With their user base, or with this particular social media bubble we're in right now?
- You probably already live in some sort of bubble if you're a Firefox user. Most people straight up don't care about the things Firefox offers, and what it offers (better privacy, a functioning extension system including adblockers) is diametrically opposed to using LLMs IMO.

Mozilla needs to die and be reborn under the wing of better management and community drive, because they seem to have been captured by money hungry fucks. They dont give a shit about opensource. It's just a pipe through which they can get Google money.

Are they jonesing for openai giving them another google-sized payout? Otherwise I don't get the rationale, the overlap of their users and people wanting ai browser is one freshman from California? Not to mention Firefox has nowhere near enough cash to burn on this thing to compete with AI companies doing the exact same thing.

(obligatory "ai, ew")

I hate it

Not just browsers ... Take a look at what Microsoft has in mind for Windows 11. https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/18/windows-11-to-add-an-ai-agent-that-runs-in-background-with-access-to-personal-folders-warns-of-security-risk/

They made a version of windows after 2000?
- No, that's Windows 11 - older version than 2000. The good one was 1736.

And it's gonna be shiiit

i like mullvad's browser

You can ask it anything... Ask it to fuck off.

Isn't it opt in?

Fireshit prefers to make their shits on by default and can only be disabled in about:config
- Yep. That's already how the current "AI" (called "machine learning" in the options to make it more confusing) functionality in Firefox works, you need to go into about:config to turn it all off. Y'know, because it's such a niche thing to want when you're using a somewhat privacy-focused webbrowser.

Uninstalled

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