Firefox

Zusammen haben wir heute den #digitalindependenceday durchgeführt.

I’ve been wanting this feature for ages. So nice to see this being added to FF. My next hope is that its not limited to split view and it can tile like I3.

In case you’re not on the Mozilla Foundation mailing list, I thought people would be interested in this to let people know about the direction of AI you want Mozilla to go.

One large step towards bringing some security parity with Chrome

TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patterns (previously known as dark patterns) to nag and annoy people into enabling AI features. You can see this in the introduction of Link Previews, an extremely invasive anti-feature that exists solely to push AI into your experience.

OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker."

The lack of self awareness in the title is astonishing.

TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.

LibreWolf is one of the best browsers for people who don’t like generative AI.

That was complete bullshit, of course. Yes, I absolutely branded Mozilla.org that way for the subtext of “these free software people are all a bunch of commies.” I was trolling.

It’s disabled by default, but I had no idea this was added.

When I started working on AI at Mozilla two years ago, I was a Python developer with a background in web services and three months of machine learning experience from working on the Nuclia DB project. I was not someone who had trained models from scratch or built production ML infrastructure. Today, Firefox ships multiple AI features that run entirely on-device, and I helped build the infrastructure that makes that possible. This is a retrospective on what we accomplished and what I learned along the way.

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. 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. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

https://www.xuldev.org/misc/ucjs.php

Heute zu #Nikolaus stellen wir LanguageTool vor. Das ist ein Onlinetool zur Komma-, Grammatik- und Rechtschreibprüfung. Das Besondere ist, dass es zusätzlich in verschiedene Anwendungen wie @thunderbird Thunderbird, @LibreOfficeDE LibreOffice, @firefox Firefox und @obsidian Obsidian eingebunden und direkt genutzt werden kann. Darüber ist ein gemeinsames Wörterbuch für alle Anwendungen möglich. Mit der kostenpflichtigen Version kann es um KI-Funktionen ergänzt werden.

TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Mozilla is going live with it anyway. I thank locale leaders and localizers for their tireless efforts. Locale leaders seem to be obviated by AI, and Mozilla has nothing to say about it.

TL;DR: On the November 2025 Mozilla Support Community call, Mozilla provided updates on the recent controversy from the Japanese Support Mozilla community quitting over AI. During the call, Mozilla doubled down on AI, confirming that volunteers would be unable to disable AI translations across the entire Mozilla knowledge-base, with the American English version of articles serving as the blessed, canonical version. Locale specific contributions will be overwritten (by design) by AI.

By default now Firefox for Android shares an extra link with TRACKING for advertising itself. This is the features that everyone loves.

Nothing to discuss in particular, just spreading some kindness 😊

For anyone who missed it:

Also, would be nice if there was some control with the list of “Open Withs”

This extension replaces images of Trump and Musk with a placeholder.

It just checks image alt text for keywords. No AI weirdness.

This does not happen with any other chromium based browser

Link is this: https://addons.mozilla.org/it/android/addon/get-tamper-monkey/

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These just showed up recently on my browser, and it kind of doesn't suck.

Voici la 1re version de l'affiche ! :sparkles: Un événement autour des logiciels et des cultures libres dans le sud des Landes le 18 octobre.

Misleading title (the one on the news article): Firefox added multiple chatbots, and only on nightlies.

I woke up one day and Fennec wouldn't browse any web page. Like, if I do a search, which goes to DuckDuckGo, I get a loading bar that never goes anywhere. (See screenshot).

For the past few weeks I've been building my own Fork of Firefox with Fediverse integration. After sharing my build on Lemmy several people asked if it were possible to just have the Lemmy Discussion extension as a stand alone, so here it is: https://codeberg.org/rozodru/LemmyBridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon#Animated_favicons

Linux thing, but i thought it would be interesting.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued