Misleading title (the one on the news article): Firefox added multiple chatbots, and only on nightlies.
If you’re wondering, it’s literally just an embedded webpage of the AI vendor as a sidebar with a single button that pastes the entire contents of the webpage you’re on for the AI to give you a summary. So they basically just saved you the arduous effort of checks notes “ctrl+a ctrl+c ctrl+n <domain of ai vendor> enter ctrl+v enter.”
This reeks of “management demanded it when none of the developers wanted to add it.”
And every single one is opt-in. Firefox need features for everyone to gain traction, and not just us.
Relax.
This is fine. I want nothing do do with AI, and opt in is the right way to do this. Those that want it can enable it.
Ok. Now let me open any URL I want in the sidebar instead of just copilot.com or whatever precanned URL this junk uses…
There Mozilla goes again, adding AI later than everybody else, worse than everybody else (the article notes this Ccopilot integration is worse than Microsoft Edge), and despite nobody asking for it.
Mozilla even rated Copilot as one of the least private chatbots when it comes to AI training. Back when they had a division that actually advocated for safety online. (Here’s the source - and try ignoring the “donate to us!” message that pops up)
Guys relax they are opt-in also LibreWolf and a ton of forks are available too
Aaaand back to the browser quest.
Maybe try Waterfox…
I have been using liberewolf for a while (don’t remember why). Is Waterfox better?
