Mozilla fragt: »What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?«
Ganz einfach: einen Browser mit maximalen Sicherheits- und Datenschutzstandards. Ohne Tracking, ohne Datensammelei, ohne »wir machen das für die Finanzierung«-Ausreden. Ein Browser, der Nutzer konsequent schützt, transparent erklärt, was passiert, und sich wieder klar auf die ursprüngliche Mission besinnt: ein offenes Web, in dem der Mensch im Mittelpunkt steht – nicht Werbenetzwerke, Datenbroker und Profiling.
Und bitte: kein KI-Kram im Browser. Keine Zwangs-Features, keine Assistenten, die Daten abgreifen, keine »smarten« Experimente.
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“When you advertise on Mozilla’s Firefox and MDN Web Docs, you’ll connect with over 210 million selective, discerning, brand-loyal users. Because they trust us, they’ll trust you.”
I'm now a Senior Network Engineer at Mozilla. Today is my first day as an employee. Here's my summary of how I got here and how the process has been so far, from my perspective.
I have disabled every fucking piece of AI bullshit I can find from Firefox and DESPITE THAT today I got ambushed by a new ASK AN AI CHATBOT line in a fucking image context menu
Why is everyone mad at #mozilla I don't understand.
#firefox is about to release one of the best #ai features and I couldn't be more excited: a kill switch.
This is a big deal and marks a change of sentiment. After years of tech scrambling to reinvent itself with user hostile #ai features, Mozilla is offering something different - turn it off.
I remember a time, not so very long ago, when Gecko powered 4 or 5 non-Mozilla browsers, some of them on exotic platforms, as well as GPS devices, wysiwyg editors, geographic platforms, email clien…
Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.
So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.
I'm sure the @Vivaldi folks are sick of hearing this feedback, but I'll say it anyway (sorry): the only thing that holds me back from adopting and enthusiastically recommending Vivaldi is that it's not 100% open source.
With Mozilla chasing the AI dragon, now would be a really great time for Vivaldi to take the plunge and go fully FOSS. I don't know that it gains much, if anything, by being just mostly FOSS.
Možná jste to nevěděli, ale reader mode ve Firefoxu umí číst články. Jakože nahlas. Přečte text jako audio. Ale zní to prehistoricky a čeština je to vtipná. Kdyby zrovna do tohodle vrazili AI a vylepšili to, neuráželo by mně to.
Myslím, že jsou věci, které jsou AI a jsou pro lidi užitečné, ale je otázka, jestli to jsou zrovna ty, které si produkťáci vycucali z prstu, a jestli jich je tolik, kolik se nám snaží aktuální trh naznačit.
Mozilla just named Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as their new CEO. He says:
“Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.”
This might be the point in time where a successful project – #Mozilla – may need to be forked by the community (especially developers) into a new, unenshittified reimagination.
It's worked with LibreOffice (previousloy OpenOffice), MariaDB (previously MySQL), Valkey (Redis), ... and many more.
I have hopes that the recent turn of events won't kill the former browser of common sense. There's hope it'll become a 'PhoenizillaFromTheAshes' to arise without #enshittification.
Let's support a world with less #GenAI/#LLM and other shit in it, which is harmful to society, mental health, democracy as well as our environment.
Hey #Mozilla! Since you're hell-bent on shoving AI down the throats of #Firefox users. Maybe you should have reeeaallly doubled down and chosen an AI agent as your new CEO? C'mon I dare you! 😈
It's so depressing how orgs like #Mozilla squander volunteer goodwill for nothing. They'll never recover from this self-inflicted damage:
«Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets»
TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini.
It's been five great years, but now it is time for me to move on and try something else. During these five years I've met and interacted with a large number of awesome people at Mozilla, lots of new friends! I got the chance to work from home and yet…
This is TERRIBLE! Mozilla people who used to follow me here... Talk some sense into your coworkers/management!
People don't use Firefox because it's loaded with crap and AI, they use it because it's not corporate owned and not feeding all your browsing data into the data machine. AI is not of any benefit to add to your browser, no matter the hype.
All I want from #Mozilla is for them to improve* the damn bookmarks organizer dialog (the one that shows up with Ctrl+Shift+O) & bookmark popover in #Firefox, but instead I get an opt-in hallucination engine that I'm never going to use : blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…
Warum nochmal kann Thunderbird keine VJOURNALs anzeigen, bitte? Wieviel Arbeit wäre es denn, dafür ein PlugIn / einen Konnektor zu schreiben (auch einfach interim)? @thunderbird #thunderbird #mozilla
God, can someone please finally take #Firefox out of the hands of #Mozilla and their damn "AI" bros?
When they started adding all of this nonsense I went into my about:config to explicitly set "browser.ml.enable" to "false", but apparently even doesn't save you, as the new "features" will just not give a damn. 🫠
⚠️ Important PSA about #Pocket ‼️
If you used Pocket to save interesting articles you found online, you may be aware that #Mozilla decided to shut down the app and discontinue support.
Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). ...
Linux users can install Mozilla VPN client from Flathub. The open source app was previously only available to install on Ubuntu-based distributions via the Mozilla APT repo.
C'est en invitant les gens sur X (le réseau social tenu par un néo-Nazi milliardaire) que vous menez des « actions pour bâtir ensemble un meilleur Internet. Un Internet qui fait passer les intérêts des gens avant l’argent » ?
Soyez présents si vous voulez, mais n'y invitez pas les autres !
Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket - BrianFagioli writes: In a surprising move that will frustrate longtime fans, Mozil... - tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/… #mozilla
This could lead to some failure to update the certificate data with tools that don't handle redirect correctly. These tools will fail to fetch the new certdata.txt now.
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#Mozilla isn’t addressing the number one question: why did they remove this section from their #firefox terms of services?
> * Does Firefox sell your personal data?
> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.
Please do criticise #Mozilla – we need an independent, privacy-preserving, feature-rich web browser, not another tracking-infested piece of garbage software.
However, the frequently expressed opinion that “Firefox should be abandoned because Mozilla is the worst bullshit company” is not helpful. Without #Firefox, all your favourite forks (Tor, LibreWolf, Zen…) would struggle to survive and the Google-Apple complex would fully control the browser market.
New Mozilla TOS diff. This is what they just removed:
* Does Firefox sell your personal data?
> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.
The purpose of the new TOS appears to be to enable them to do this - such as for their advertising and AI sidelines.
: blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…
Mozilla forces AI on its own community translators, what could go wrong? 
