The way they are forcing AI on everyone and into every aspect of their browser especially when a large part of the people who use Firefox hates that shit is going to end Firefox.
The reason you don’t hear it about all those other browsers is because people have always known they don’t give a fuck what the end user wants.
Firefox used to be different. But all good things deteriorate over time. Watching it happen in real time to a browser we all use and used to love is why you see it so much posted especially in places with like minded individuals like Lemmy.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
There’s AI in Firefox? I’m running it as new as I can in Arch and have never seen a hint of it.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Sidebar on the left has one of those star icons that opens an AI chatbot, or you can hit ctrl + alt + x
shiroininja@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Oh ok. I rarely use any browser features beyond bookmarks. Thats pretty much all I need from a browser. So I don’t explore the side bars and stuff.
greybeard@feddit.online 15 hours ago
They’ve also put it into the right click menu. And I think they integrated into the “click and hold link preview” feature they just added. And, annoyingly, with all this added AI, they made no provisions for locally hosted AI.
They also added AI translation in addition to their old translation system for webpages. I think the old one just used Google Translate, so the AI translation is a privacy win because it is done locally, but I may be wrong on how it used to work.
hobwell@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
You actually can set up the sidebar to use a local LLM. In about:config the key is something like “browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost”
I have it setup to use my local Ollama instance and it works great.
Unfortunately, I don’t see a way to specify an alternate external server, which would be nice.
greybeard@feddit.online 15 hours ago
How nice of them to have easy options for paid third party services, and hide the local options under about:config where I’d have no idea it even exists without a kind stranger letting me know.
greybeard@feddit.online 15 hours ago
Thanks for the tip of checking about:config. You can specify an external server, it is also in the about:config. browser.ml.chat.provider. I’m not sure it’s a feature I will ever use, but I tested it with my local Open WebUI and it seemed to work.