let’s look at mozilla’s marketing blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

>Completely opt-in, you have full control, and if you try it and find it’s not for you, you can choose to switch it off.

haha no, I did nothing to opt into this. I opted out as strongly as I could and it still showed up to displace a menu item I frequently use. disabling it in my version of Firefox required yet another dive into about:config.

@zzt the deployment of the new feature flags will continue until the user opts into defeat, sagging from exhaustion at having to defensively check their browser every 72 seconds

this fucking pattern got big with facebook (you know, that beacon of user consent) since like **2012**, it is absolutely fucking wild to me that any moz person does this shit with a straight face then calls it choice. absolute fucking gaslighting

@zzt and then of course this toot stands a chance to get the bonus round of some weird fucker koolaidmanning through the wall and arguing about whether gaslighting has absolutes

@zzt "Why is investing in AI important for Firefox?" the question I want answered but know it won't be

here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

but speaking of rolling out half-baked shit to users who didn’t ask for it, attached is all the documentation I could find for whatever the fuck the New Classic Window item is

the New Classic Window item disappeared when I disabled extensions.ml.enabled so it’s related but fuck if I could tell you how

@zzt "Why is investing in AI important for Firefox?" the question I want answered but know it won't be

if you bring this up with mozilla, they’ll pretend you must have accidentally opted in somehow! mozilla has admitted to operating on a different definition of opt-in from the rest of the world; theirs omits user consent.

here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

@zzt this is confusing. I wonder if it is something like Coke, New Coke, New Classic Coke

@zzt wtf… what am i even to assume each of these means

new window -> not private, not AI
new AI window -> not private, yes AI
new classic window -> ???
new private window -> private, not AI…?

no clue why all these are needed, they don’t even seem mutually exclusive. maybe firefox ai invented the classic window just for you? (/joking of course… i hope!)

@zzt wtf… what am i even to assume each of these means

new window -> not private, not AI
new AI window -> not private, yes AI
new classic window -> ???
new private window -> private, not AI…?

no clue why all these are needed, they don’t even seem mutually exclusive. maybe firefox ai invented the classic window just for you? (/joking of course… i hope!)

@chillicampari @zzt

Makes sense. After all we already had new Tab.

@zzt Your fury is entirely warranted, they're a treacherous brood and deserve to be called out. There is a way out of this though.

The easiest browser migration I ever did in over two decades was from firefox to librewolf, which I can wholeheartedly recommend. No idea why just copying .firefox to .librewolf insidr my user's home directory did not work, but transplanting the contents did the trick.

• Installed librewolf, launched and closed it once.
• Copied over the contents of the two profiles from .firefox to .librewolf in my home directory. Mixed them up initially, due to their names being cryptic a f and no obvious way of telling which is which, so at first bookmarks and settings didn't show.
• Deleted the contents inside the profiles and copied again from sources, but to the opposite destination each, to fix it.
• Launched librewolf, could barely tell the difference now that all was back where it belongs.

Hope that helps!

@fasterandworse

@mrs_malice I think the New Classic Window item makes me so angry because it implies that there’s a planned future where New AI Window is the default and the non-AI window is effectively deprecated

@mrs_malice @zzt it's only a natural evolution of LLMs deciding what's best for us that they start procedurally generating the user interface, i can't wait!!!!