I have my settings in /etc/firefox and a symlink to distro’s /usr/lib/firefox-esr/distribution. Easier to remember.
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guywithoutaname@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
FYI if you want to edit the Firefox policies directly and save it in /etc/firefox/policies/policies.json, this is the file they are using
"policies": { "DisableFirefoxStudies": true, "DisableTelemetry": true, "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true, "FirefoxHome": { "SponsoredStories": false, "SponsoredTopSites": false, "Stories": false }, "GenerativeAI": { "Enabled": false }, "SearchEngines": { "Remove": [ "Perplexity" ] } } }```
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
This shows how unhinged the whole recent hate on Firefox is. Turning off GenAI is literally one single setting AND Mozilla is doing things infinitely better than others (e.g. the translation feature is completely local, and having a chatbot in the sidebar is opt-in)
cley_faye@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
We heard of that “kill switch” way, way after the general outrage. Also, other software and services have an “AI killswitch” that conveniently fails to work from time to time, and is fixed only when people notice it.
It’s not unhinged to point finger at someone doing something that, from experience, as always turned bad. Also, if you think the hate (I use your word, I’d say distrust) for Firefox is only related to the recent “AI” push, you’re severely misinformed.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 50 minutes ago
I get a lot of hate for it but some AI inclusions are genuinely good.
Firefox’s local AI translation is infinitely better than scraping all the info and sending it to Google Translate servers, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
The screen reader improvements that use AI are good as well. Has anybody here used screen readers for web pages? They are awful. It’s good that someone is willing to improve them. My sister is blind so this matters a lot to me.
The (locally generated) AI assisted link previews aren’t for me as I imagine they’re unnecessarily taxing on older PCs, but they’re not exactly an evil inclusion. It’s an attempt at adding
I’m not a fan of the LLM sidebar, but it’s opt-in and you can at least choose open models or even host your own, I guess.
The hate is overblown.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
That’s because the people who are fine or happy with firefox aren’t the type of people to talk about it, the vocal ones are the people that have complaints