Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.

They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Doesn't work. Try to do it without giving them a phone number or installing some other application. You can't. Or I couldn't.

Then, after you can't and you think, "I'll go to the forums, see if there is a way." You'll find out Mozilla has problems with sign in. I mean come on.. But this is irrelevant, this whole flow is dumb. And it presumes that I shouldn't be able to control my own browser.

We need a new firefox - just like the original firefox showed that Mozilla was bloat and dumb, we need another that shows the current is bloat and dumb.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Doesn't work. Try to do it without giving them a phone number or installing some other application. You can't. Or I couldn't.

    how did you try? did you try registering a mozilla account?

    You'll find out Mozilla has problems with sign in.

    It's probably temporary, it doesn't have problems usually

    And it presumes that I shouldn't be able to control my own browser.

    they do it so that malware cant install unvetted addons to your browser. and if someone signs a malware addon this way, and some people report it, mozilla can disable it for everyone.

    We need a new firefox - just like the original firefox showed that Mozilla was bloat and dumb, we need another that shows the current is bloat and dumb.

    what you need is a footgun. you have it in about:config.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Nah, I think we just need a dialog box - could be like osx - "are you sure you want to allow the plugin that you said you wanted to use? It was built by: you, not signed by Mozilla." Maybe put a "You have unsigned plugins running" tool tip - that gets displayed at startup or every 8 hours.

    Again - imagine if you couldn't install the programs you wanted on your computer - this is current firefox.

    I suppose we are both beating the already-dead-horse on different ends now.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Nah, I think we just need a dialog box - could be like osx - "are you sure you want to allow the plugin that you said you wanted to use? It was built by: you, not signed by Mozilla." Maybe put a "You have unsigned plugins running" tool tip - that gets displayed at startup or every 8 hours.

    that won't help to warn the largest part of the target audience, those who were trained by big tech to dismiss those dialogs by reflex without reading a word in it

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I disagree, if the user has opened up about: has gone in an said, "I want to enable this local plugin permanently" and then says, "yes" to a "do you really want to do this"


    this is enough


    also just think if mac or windows or linux all of a sudden said, "no you can't install the software you want"


    you would be against I would think.

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