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It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
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this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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compare to vivaldi flat out refusing ai, keeping mv2, and actually building a blocker and tracker into the browser.
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Yeah this ain't it chief. Hope we can nuke the feature into oblivion, but we all know that won't be possible as Firefox enshittifies
Come on servo
Isn't servo what FF uses for rendering? I thought they had built that layer from scratch in Rust.
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Since everyone is mentioning browsers, what should we use on mobile now? Tor isn't really a option, since most sites won't let you access them by it.
Firefox, Firefox Focus, Fennec, IronFox.
Plenty of choice for different needs.
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Well, older news is: "Firefox has evolved into the first thing I uninstall when I install Fedora, or any other Linux distro for that matter". Since the first mention of their so-called "anonymous telemetry" I began to actively avoid them. Like someone else mention, thank God for Librewolf, Mullvad and Brave (with Leo disabled).
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Has anyone tried Mullvad Browser and would care to comment on their experience comparing to LibreFox, WaterFox, Floorp, Zen etc. ?
It's pretty bland, but it's meant to be. It's main function is to be the second most fingerprint resistant and private browser. It's second is the ability to use Mullvad VPN tunnels per tab or domain.
Besides that, it is not recommended that you use it for logging in to sites or for personalized use cases. If you add extensions like a password manager for said logging in, you fingerprint yourself.
Honestly, I'm going to be blunt, I think it is great for light scrolling and some media consumption, but I don't see its use case. It is faster than Tor and so if you find it filling a need where you might not need Tor, great! Otherwise, I don't really see its appeal.
If I really want to blend in, I'll use Tor, and otherwise I enjoy having my browser customized to my needs. Floorp is my daily driver, and I know I'm super fingerprintable using it. I just don't care for the things I'm looking up and the fact that I have ad blockers and other privacy features set up.
Mullvad doesn't have vertical tabs, it is lacking web apps, it doesn't include much customization, and its settings are really sparse. You can of course go to about::config and change whatever you want (as long as the browser has it, so not vertical tabs), but then you defeat the purpose of them having limited options: to hide your fingerprint a little less than Tor but much more than other browsers
All this to say, it's a good browser and I am sure there are others who have found much more use out of it than I have, but it's not a daily driver for me.
That makes sense. Not all browsers are meant to be daily drivers. It sounds like it would be good for certain use cases. Thank you for sharing in detail.
They're going to use AI to identify and block ads for me, right? Or let me set a cookie preference and automatically apply that to every page I visit?
That would be rather useful things to have AI for IMHO.
So, AI will do the same thing as what light extensions already do, but consuming 4GB of RAM and maxing out CPU load?
Well no. They not gonna burn ai credits on that, they need it to identify your interests and sell you ads.
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