Here’s the original article from Mozilla instead of this third-party AI slop regurgitating it.
Windows forcing their own propriatary software as a means to destroy competing web browsers? Is it 1997 already?
There’s a lot of people on the Mozilla hate train, and they do deserve a bit of ire for some of their more puzzling decisions. All I wanted from Firefox was a configurable browser with sane defaults, that lets me block ads and does all the normal browser things without being a total black box of corporate telemetry and profiling. To a large degree Firefox has been the best mainstream browser for people who can’t dance with the devil and use Chrome. In many aspects, it has made better decisions than Chrome.
With that said, I didn’t want Pocket, I didn’t want AI, and I’m mildly annoyed that this sort of thing is in the default build. It feels like a windows installer asking you to install 10 additional programs, but the ticked boxes are greyed out. I just want a browser, no crypto wallets, no ai assistants, no built-in mail client, no biometric scanning.
Firefox has been around long enough to have been both god tier and trash tier at different points. I don’t think the AI focus is going to go well for Mozilla. I’d like them to focus on browser stuff.
I had an ad in my Firefox settings for “Solo AI Website Creator”. It’s a product from Mozilla for using AI to build your website. Note that it’s not open source, and you must rely on them to host your website (no export functionality, and recurring fees outside a basic free tier).
I agree with you, I wish Mozilla would focus solely on their mission instead of trying to build all these side projects people don’t want.
Nah, mozilla sabotaged firefox.
Por qué no los dos.
What’s up with the AI slop image for this post?
Also, Mozilla is destroying Firefox by themselves, they don’t need help from m$
Was the image generated with copilot?
Downvoting for unsolicited AI slop on my feed.
It would’ve been cool if they used Blender for the lil’ guy. 🥺
Ah yes, I’m sure it was microslop who decided to make firefox add an AI the community voted against
Did they also force them to kill MDN, buy pocket, or funnel 99% of the foundation’s budget on everything that’s not Firefox?
Edit: fact checked myself and the budget part is completely incorrect. The foundation just leeches on the corporation through yearly royalties.
Thundermail seems cool at least, as an encrypted email service.
Thundermail seems cool at least
Thunder* is developed by a separate corporation, they’re just both subsidiaries of the mozilla foundation. Also mzla is pretty much financially independent due to individual donations.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/
as an encrypted email service.
You can send e2ee emails with thunderbird.
Anti-steering stuff again. Besides that I’ll always be a bit annoyed with Mozilla both with their design decisions for FirefoxOS and then how much they bungled it. RokuOS is still highly relevant while FirefoxOS descendents are real niche. Firefox is usually the default on Linux distros. Mozilla should have at least been pushing Linux distros that shipped Firefox on laptops/desktops since FirefoxOS was announced
Deja vu
When Windows lets me make Dolphin the default file manager I’ll believe they don’t have a right to force people to use whatever product they wish.
Microsoft hasn’t done anything wrong. Windows is a proprietary software and they can do whatever they want
“You’re on my property, I’m allowed to shoot you here.”
While these “ethics” do exist, they’re extremely niche. So don’t pretend yours aren’t.
Alternatives exist.
If you use Windows, you agreed to the TOS.
Don’t use it if you don’t like it.
Personally, I don’t.
But not everyone is able to (for lack of awareness to alternatives, technical skills, software constraints, work requirements, vendor lock-in, …). Are those people unworthy of being protected from an evil company’s wrongdoing just because they’re using the “wrong” OS?
You’re basically arguing that corporations can do whatever they please “on their own turf”. That’s not true as far as user rights, consumer protection and anti-trust laws are concerned. And it shouldn’t be.
