Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.

“It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox.”

  • incompetent ( incompetent@programming.dev ) English
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    1 year ago

    Rather than adding cruft to their browser and turning it on by default.

    The second paragraph of the article:

    The post stresses the feature will be opt-in and that the user “is in control.”

    That being said, I agree with you that they should have made it an extension if they really wanted to make sure the user “is in control.”