After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla’s new CEO that Firefox will evolve into “a modern AI browser,” the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser.
On Tuesday, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo was named the new CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the company behind the beloved Firefox web browser used by almost all GNU/Linux distributions as the default browser.
In his message as new CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo stated that Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software while remaining the company’s anchor, and that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
What was not made clear is that Firefox will also ship with an AI kill switch that will let users completely disable all the AI features that are included in Firefox. Mozilla shared this important update earlier today to make it clear to everyone that Firefox will still be a trusted web browser.
i wish they would release a second browser instead of whatever this is
I mean...its not mozzilla directly but Librewolf is a fork of firefox that ive been using for over a year and havnt had any issues.
sounds good but what happens when they can't get upstream updates anymore because firefox is an ai browser
At this point, even Brave that markets itself as "privacy first" is embracing AI. It seems like Firefox could differentiate itself from the rest of the market by being staunchly anti-AI, even in their development practices.
FF got lazy and never developed independant of googles revenue.
they could put google revenue features in both browsers
Which is a good thing, so FF can focus on bringing an good product and not worry about money. And Google gets to keep a competitor and not get extra rules to prevent their monopoly.
Only as long as FF keeps creating a good product of course.