We recently shared how we are approaching AI in Firefox — with user choice and openness as our guiding principles. That’s because we believe AI should be built like the internet — open, accessible, and driven by choice — so that users and the developers helping to build it can use it as they wish, help shape it and truly benefit from it.
Noteworthy, Librewolf pre-disables the AI nonsense for you. (Local offline translations, the only actually useful feature that uses LLMs, is kept.)
Even that offline translation is annoying to me. I speak more than one language and Firefox constantly offering to translate for me.
There is an option for “Never translate website X.” and “Never translate language Y.” But there is no option for “Never translate anything. Fuck right off!”
Wait, this is LibreWolf we’re speaking about. Have you unchecked these two? (see screenshot)
UPDATE: The upper checkbox seems to flip
browser.translations.enableinabout:config. Librewolf even demands you do a full browser restart after unchecking. Combined with the name of the property, I think it’s a win for you! I mean, that this thing really disables translations from ever executing.UPDATE 2: Admittedly it’s not pre-disabled though. But clearly exposed in the settings.
Wait, I was talking about Firefox.
Thanks for the information. I will switch over someday.
You speak every language?
Even if I understand french and English, and both are disabled from suggesting a translation; I don’t speak German and I find using it to translate in place without giving my data to Google is pretty good.
Librewolf also just adds patches on top of a Firefox release. It’s fine if you want a browser that works out of the box but it’s still Firefox.
In my opinion the resulting translations aren’t of very high quality. I like the idea of the feature, but the execution is lacking.
It will improve over time, and it’s still infinitely better than giving google translate your data
Why does Firefox need an integrated LLM?
Why are people downvoring a Firefox blogpost on a Firefox community ?
People in this community (and Firefox communities in general) tend to simply not to read and downvote when Mozilla is releasing a completely optional¹ and deactivatable features to their browser, but also this is Lemmy, where “AI” = BAD.
In Firefox, you’ll never be locked into one ecosystem or have AI forced into your browsing experience. You decide when, how or whether to use it at all.
Should be opt in.
Otherwise it is like CISA – you are always having to stay vigilant for the next incarnation to fight against or AI feature to detect and disable. It is exhausting and Mozilla hopes people will just give up and accept it if they keep including more unwanted features…
Opt-in features never get used.
Remember when apple asked people to opt into privacy for apps and 90%+ people said yes?
If it is a feature people want to use they will opt in given the choice clearly presented.
It’s just a shame to downvote blogpost. They will be less visible.
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