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KI-Update kompakt: KI-Cyberattacke, Firefox KI-Fenster, Prometheus, AI-Racing
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www…

Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922
(Edited to fix li…

Building AI the Firefox way: Shaping what’s next together
Hi everyone, We recently shared how we’re approaching AI in Firefox with user choice and openness at the center of everything we build. We’ve heard from many of you who’d prefer not to have AI in your browser at all, and we get it: We will soon provide additional settings for you to control how AI i...

We are running out of browsers which are useable …
Mozilla's New CEO Bets #Firefox's Future on #AI - Slashdot

So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?
:firefox: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO amid a challenging period for Mozilla's for-profit arm with layoffs, restructuring, and its Google dependence (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks Mozilla and Firefox still have a role to play in the web, even as things shift toward AI.

God, can someone please finally take #Firefox out of the hands of #Mozilla and their damn "AI" bros?
When they started adding all of this nonsense I went into my about:config to explicitly set "browser.ml.enable" to "false", but apparently even doesn't save you, as the new "features" will just not give a damn. 🫠

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Mozilla kündigt "KI-Fenster" für Firefox an
https://www.

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
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.”
— by @…
🦊

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
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.

Och FFS.
"#Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software."
"It will evolve into a modern AI #browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions."
One job. A browser has ONE. SINGLE. JOB.

Nouvelle #MAJ #Firefox pour #Android avec nouveau "burger menu" (...) vraiment stylé au passage ^^

So, @… wrote an interesting reflection on "AI" and Firefox a few days ago: https://www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/wanting-not-to-want-ai/
…

I know you don’t want them to want AI, but…
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Wake me up when #Firefox drops the AI crap, until then, consider me in protest against #Firefox.
#FuckAI

Mozilla kündigt "KI-Fenster" für Firefox an
Mozilla will Firefox in die Ära der KI-Browser führen, aber einiges anders als diese machen – manche Nutzer fordern etwas ganz anderes.
https://www.

Firefox is jumping the shark with this AI thing. A web browser helps you browse the web. it doesn't steal and summarize web content in order to prevent you from visiting web sites.
I think it's barely less disgusting than the blockchain web nonsense. But I acknowledge that it is possible that it is actually even more disgusting.

Sooooo... any alternatives for Firefox and Thunderbird yet? #Mozilla

Firefox heeft op mobiel een knopje 'vereenvoudigd lezen' waarbij alle opmaak wordt verwijderd. Ik ontdekte laatst dat het ook blokkerende popups negeert 🤗

Mozilla says it is building AI Window, a Firefox feature that will include an AI assistant and let users choose the model, but offers few additional details (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/820196/mozilla-firefox-ai-window-browser
…

Mozilla announces an AI ‘window’ for Firefox
Mozilla says it is building an AI window for its Firefox browser.

*suspiro* 🤦‍♂️
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/115373473692178204

We're seeing trouble with Grist on Firefox 145. Looks to be a Firefox bug. If you can hold off upgrading Firefox, do, the problem is already understood and should be fixed in their next release
https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/issues/1944#issuecomment-3…

JS errors on Firefox 145 · Issue #1944 · gristlabs/grist-core
Describe the current behavior Self hosted grist on docker, I have built an order management system on grist with custom widget to connect to thrid party apis. Everything have been working well befo...

@…
I can't tell if you're the same entity as the people adding so-called AI to Firefox, are you? Or can you pass a message on?
My message would be: Firefox would be much more valuable as a privacy-first, climate-conscious, efficient alternative to the other browsers jumping on the LLM bandwagon.
#Firefox #Mozilla

When I attempt to login to elk.mstdn.ca, I get a 502 error. (see screenshot attached). So for the past couple of months, I have been unable to access Elk on my Win 11 Desktop.
However I WAS able to continue to access Elk on my Macbook Pro laptop until a couple of weeks ago, but now I get the same error there.
When I investigate this at cloudflare, I am advised:
There are two possible causes:
 502/504 errors from your origin web server (most common).
I also have noticed that my security program, BitDefender has notified me of this several times:
firefox.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching security certificate to cdn.signalayer.com. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since the used certificate was issued for a different web address than the targeted one
Is this possibly related to my difficulties?
I have attached a screenshot of the CloudFlare error
I would very much appreciate any assistance or advice anyone can provide.

"The scene (“Hidden Figures”, 2016) ends with Mr. Stafford famously claiming “that’s old!” as if the Pythagorean theorem was suddenly not useful anymore after 3500 years… Mr. Stafford’s reaction is canonical and very appropriate; it is the same that most devs have upon learning the fact that COBOL is running most credit card transactions, or when frontend engineers discover that static or server-rendered HTML websites do not need 10 MB of JavaScript on the browser."

Sachen, die man am Sonntag macht:
Profil vom #Firefox zerstören.

Firefox. Now ribbed for your pleasure.
#Mozilla #Firefox https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1155

nixCraft 🐧 (@nixCraft@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look. Say hello to Kit who is new mascot. https://www.firefox.com/en-US/kit/

One of the top stories on Hacker News today was a post arguing that Mozilla shouldn't accommodate any usage of AI in Firefox because (understandably) people were mad at Big AI companies for all the horrible things they've done to users and the internet and society. But I think people are ignoring the reality that *hundreds of millions of users* are using LLMs today, and they need to have tools from platforms that will look out for their interests.

I know you don’t want them to want AI, but…
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Od lat używam #Firefox, ale dzisiaj naszła mnie refleksja, że może jestem zbyt zamknięty na alternatywy? Zależy mi na przeglądarce, która będzie mi się synchronizować macOS Linux Android. Co myślicie o #Brave? #browser

Not one shiny penny. https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/mozilla_corporation_new_ceo/

I might be the minority here but I feel like if Firefox shipped with AI shit enabled but a huge "DISABLE AI" button you could press to turn it off... I might be okay with that.
If the alternative is (almost) every other browser having AI and no way to turn it off, is a "DISABLE AI" button a win?
It would let the people who care disable it. People who don't care could also disable it, we just need to tell them how and why they should.
1/n

I criticize Mozilla quite strongly. That's not cause I want them to die. It's because while they might've lost their way I strongly believe we need organizations like Mozilla. (Even if Mozilla as "tech-company" probably needs to either massively pivot or be replaced with something that servers the people [insert my usual "There should be a government funded agency that buys things like Firefox and develops it in a transparent and democratic way" shpiel])

Hey @…, I'm suddenly getting crashing on Firefox 143. I don't know if it's Firefox, Mastodon, or a combination (no other site is crashing for me)...
Is anyone else getting this issue as well?

J'ai découvert l'extension Firefox Unlock Medium Article : #TIL #Firefox

So what's a good alternative to Firefox (I'm using it when I'm not on my Mac). I don't want their new "AI Window" stuff and I don't want to support it.
It has to work on Windows and an iOS version as well, and can sync passwords between those.
Please only suggest things you personally use and like.
I'm ruling out Chrome (spyware) and Brave (homophobic owner).
(Wish Apple would still make Safari for Windows.)

@… Firefox, which is not forcing.

If your are on Firefox and your are tired of the narrow ass scrollbar go to settings and enable "Always show scrollbars" then in about:config set widget.non-native-theme.enabled to true then set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to 15-40.
You can thank https://www.dedoimedo.com/computer…

Translation: `about:profiles` is getting a UI.
#firefox #noxp
https://mastodon.social/@verge/1153382

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499
It is super expensive but it really seems to be time to think about how to create and fund an entity that can fork Firefox while Mozilla does some weird AI pie in the sky shit.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115547406653836285
I've been using vivaldi alongside firefox for the last few months, it took a little while to get used to the new interface, but I really like it. I'm probabaly going to complete the switch in the next week..

First this...
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."
And then this...
"Firefox will [...] evolve into a modern AI browser."
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/m…

Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil

from my link log —
Fast UDP I/O for QUIC in Firefox in Rust.
https://max-inden.de/post/fast-udp-io-in-firefox/
saved 2025-09-26 https://

Well, it now came to this: I have to install an add-on in #LibreWolf (#Firefox fork) as well on my almost naked #Chromium in order to get reliable session resume after browser restart:

I am unsurprised at the breakdown so far:
https://social.vivaldi.net/@HalleAndert/115548550635430577
Granted, the plethora of Chromia are splitting the vote, but even added together it’s not close.
Also, this is not scientific and may not reference reality. …

TIL that you can install a Firefox add-on from a file on Android too. Only, you must first unlock the developer options by touching 5 times the Firefox logo in the "About" section (very much like how one unlocks Android's dev options). Then a new "Install add-on from file" entry appears in the Advanced settings (not in the add-ons settings).

#Firefox made me talk about #Linux, wohoo!

Firefox with tab bar at left hidded the best choice.
#firefox

Just noticed Firefox was guzzling around ~750MB when opening Apple Music page. This led me down a rabbit hole of building a custom music client and its so bad.
1. You need Apple developer account (99USD/year) for API access.
2. Linux is not a native target meaning having to use MusicKit JS library with Electron, GtkWebKit or QtWebEngine.
3. Legal issues.
Spotify is such a saint in terms of third-party client support. Also, I have Amazon Prime which gets me Amazon Music…

"Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update.
The world is now anticipated to heat up by 2.6C above preindustrial times by the end of the century"
#ClimateCatastrophe

The WebSerial specification is on of those web APIs implemented only in Chrome so far; Mozilla have revised their standards position from "harmful" to "neutral" when they established the mechanism addon-gating, but are merely open to patches.
But an add-on, "WebSerial for Firefox" already fills the gap well. The caveat compared to any Mozilla sanctioned approach is that it needs a local helper, but that is well managed through the native-messaging-hosts me…

GitHub - kuba2k2/firefox-webserial: WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser
WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser - kuba2k2/firefox-webserial

Not Every Browser is Built on Chrome: Explore These Firefox-based Options
Think all popular browsers out there are Chromium based? Take a look at this Firefox-based options.
— by @…
🦊 https://

Not Every Browser is Built on Chrome: Explore These Firefox-based Options
Think all popular browsers out there are Chromium based? Take a look at this Firefox-based options.

@…
A lot of empty words explaining absolutely nothing and also this:
> In Firefox, you’ll never be locked into one ecosystem or have AI forced into your browsing experience.
Did they not run the model to generare tab group names on everyone by default, draining the battery of people for un AI feature absolutely not forced on people?

Für das @… habe ich drei bekannte E-Mail-Alias-Dienste getestet:
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/anbieter-von-e-mail-alias…

Anbieter von E-Mail-Aliassen im Test – Mail-Aliasse Teil 1
Vergleich moderner E-Mail-Alias-Dienste: Addy.io, Firefox Relay und Proton Pass im Test – Datenschutz, Funktionen und Alltagstauglichkeit.

Autoritäre Bundesregierung setzt die Parteikultur der Union durch. Arg hässlich.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/berlin/musiker-boehmermann-konzertabsage-100.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-de-de…

Alle Musiker canceln Auftritte bei Böhmermann
Nach dem großen öffentlichen Druck hat Jan Böhmermann den Auftritt von Rapper Chefket im Rahmen seiner Ausstellung abgesagt - nun verliert er auch die übrigen Musik-Acts. Einige der Künstler äußern sich.

When even #Firefox ends up in my Mastodon filters. What a timeline. #FuckAI

I haven't launched Firefox in months. Today it popped up this ad on my Windows machine. Guess it's time to uninstall it entirely.

As a response to the ever-increasing enshittification of Firefox through AI, I just became a recurring sponsor for the @… project. We desperately need a viable alternative built for the future.
#firefox #servo #FOSS #AI

Da haben sie schnell reagiert!
#firefox

En général je recommande pas mais je n'ai pas trouvé d'équivalent en app ou sur #Firefox extension.
Chose plutôt bien fait sur #BraveBrowser #chrome

Dites bonjour Š Kit | Say hi to Kit | Sag Hallo zu Kit
<https://www.firefox.com/fr/kit/> | <https://www.firefox.com/en-GB/kit/

Check out today's Metacurity for a comprehensive run-down of crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea,
--CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,'
--Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season,
--Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled,
--Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money …

Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea
CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,' Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season, Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled, Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money laundering, Firefox gets anti-fingerprinting fix, much more

»Firefox mit erweitertem Fingerprinting-Schutz:
Der Open-Source-Browser verfügt in der aktuellen Version 145 über neue Mechanismen zum Schutz vor Fingerprinting. Die neuen Massnahmen sollen das Tracking um 65 Prozent reduzieren.«
Dies ist sehr zu begrüßen und deren Klones wie der @… und @…

Firefox mit erweitertem Fingerprinting-Schutz
Der Open-Source-Browser verfügt in der aktuellen Version 145 über neue Mechanismen zum Schutz vor Fingerprinting. Die neuen Massnahmen sollen das Tracking um 65 Prozent reduzieren.

Morgen ist #Endof10 - und gestern habe ich meinen Eltern die SSD aus dem PC gerupft und Fedora Kinoite auf einer Neuen installiert.
Die alte SSD ist die Rückfalloption.
Eigentlich werden nur Firefox, Thunderbird und LibreOffice gebraucht. FF und TB haben einfach ihre Profilordner übernommen und laufen. (LO war eh nicht großartig konfiguriert.)
Sie müssen dann den anderen Dateim…

Installed #Vivaldi today (I had been using #Firefox for the past ... 20 years or so?) - First Impressions:

• it is really fast (definitely faster than FF)
• very easy to import bookmarks from Firefox (exported html)
• uBlock and Zotero connector work fine
• adding No A…

Anyone else that got #firefox reset after the update? All my settings and add-ons went away. Had to log in with my firefox account and then set everything up again. #firefox

RE: #Firefox posts on the Mastodon mobile app and got completely confuse…

The Mastodon.social web client is crazy-slow, right? I use it in Firefox on MacOS on two different laptops and basic interactions (keypresses, clicks, etc.) show long delays even after hard-refreshes. Is it just me?

Anybody having problems with #Firefox version 144.0.2 with random domains failing due to cookies? An example error with eBay:
Cookie “ds2” has been rejected for invalid domain.
Cookie “ebay” has been rejected for invalid domain.

Der company ist jetzt eingefallen Vimium für Firefox zu blockieren. 😑
Für Vivaldi gehts noch.. rüberschleich zum unmanaged browser 🤫
#Browser #Firefox #Vivaldi

RE: #Firefox

💡 Follows the obfuscation strategy of #TrackMeNot, shifting the power balance between trackers and tracked users
🆓 Free and #opensource browser extension available for #Firefox,

Look at my #ironfox icon. :blobnomcookie:
#Firefox #android

Marked safe from AI in Firefox 144 on Linux!
(about:config is your friend: search for ".ml.")
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/144.0/whatsnew/?oldversion=143.0.4

f you've been having trouble with Grist plus Firefox 145: Firefox released a bugfix version 145.0.1, https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0.1/releasenotes/ - so if you had to downgrade to get Grist working, you can now upgrade again.

Firefox 145.0.1, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

#Firefox can actually do #PWA, so great!

TIL that Firefox has a native split view. (behind a configuration flag)

This, because my hand invariably keeps twitching and reaching out for the Save button at the bottom instead of at the top of the file picker of #Firefox ->
fixing firefox #gtk file picker to #kde

I don't use YouTube much. Mostly for the occasional research. I've been using it since before Google bought it, since when you could only post 10 minute videos on it. I stopped using the YouTube app because of the ads, and for a while, just using Firefox with ublock would block them. But now, it doesn't. So now, I watch YouTube with Firefox in desktop mode, even on my phone. That works, for now. But for how long, who knows. I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that Googl…

Today, I realised that #Google has introduced #ads on #YouTube videos in browsers.
1) Code is so invasive to privacy that Firefox refuses to display the site
2) On another browser, I need to watch 2 ads ev…

Unpaywall like a pro …

One of the thing I dislike about #Fedora #Linux for a long time:
That it only packages the latest versions of software like #Firefox,

They: computers are so hard
Me: yo dawg, I heard you like the browser tabs, so I hide my tabs behind tabs
They: ...
#sideberry #firefox #tabs

me: "that's weird. chrome://flags no longer loads, did I break something?"
also me: "oh. this is firefox."

Well I hate to say it but it seems #Safari
is broken,
For the past couple of weeks I have had to use #Firefox with many, many sites after Safari fails to load images, shows no bar to scroll down a page, and load of other issues.
I man going to permanently move to Firefox by the …

Jeg tok kontakt med support hos en leverandŸr fordi en nettside hos dem ikke fungerte. Det viste seg at det var fordi jeg brukte #firefox, og jeg sa at jeg ikke har #chrome.
Svaret fra support:
Hei!
Sidene våre fungerer best mot Chrome, så anbefaler deg å laste ned dette :).
Hva svar…

YouTube seems to be broken under ublock origin again: the entire video player is just not there.
I'm seeing this on two different systems, a VM and a bare metal box, running different Debian versions and Firefox versions but fully up to date UBO with roughly the same filter sets.
Anybody else seeing this? Any issue tracker threads I can follow with progress towards a solution?
UPDATE: seems like it was stuck in some kind of half-updated state. Closed and restarted the b…

While testing some new misp-modules, such as the OpenAPI interface, I discovered a strange behavior in Firefox when trying to reach TCP port 6666, which is the default port used by misp-modules.
It seems Firefox blocks access to a predefined list of TCP ports, and this has been in place for quite some time, as you can see in the commit log.
If you want to override the blocked port list, there is an obscure setting called network.security.ports.banned.override.
…

So, if you are having problems with random websites failing with #Firefox 144, it's very likely that it did corrupt your profile(s). Unfortunately, you will need to create a new one and start over...
This is the bug: https://

putain j'arrive pas a me connecter Š lemonde.fr depuis mon firefox mobile ...

@… on Linux as well as BSD? Which version of Firefox?
I'll not use the feature with my main profile – I pile things other than traditional menus into the traditional menu bar, but I'm curious …
(Here: Kubuntu 25.10, Wayland, Firefox 145.0.2 (64-bit).)

I am noticing that on Mac OS (Tahoe) that Firefox and the iCloud Password plugin are interacting very badly and prompting for a generated password on almost every web page input field.

Careful if you're copying around Firefox profiles and rely on settings to be retained: The default value for the about:config key datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled differs by I-don't-know-what. If you disable the "Send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" checkbox in an instance where it's default off, no value is stored (because it's "default"), and it may be on in another.
(For example, I don't have long-running Firefox profiles bu…

Idk who needs to hear this, but don't use Google's Chrome browser.
Some easy to use, fast and compatible alternatives are Firefox (cross-platform) or Safari on macOS/iOS.
Also more esoteric browsers based on Firefox like LibreWolf or the Tor Browser; I can't vouch for these as I don't use them personally.
(Whatever you do, don't use Brave, it's made by a bigot homophobe with money from Peter Thiel.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/10/21/phased-out-google-confirms-bad-news-for-all-3-billion-chrome-users/

I did not know Firefox had profiles within profiles, wtf? It now makes some sense, but still a little confusing to discover it because a shortcut to launch a profile did not really exist.
#firefox

»Tor Project greift durch—Firefox-KI-Features fliegen aus dem Tor-Browser:
Den Entwicklern des Tor-Browsers sind die in Firefox integrierten KI-Features zu gefährlich. Daher wird nun aufgeräumt«
Was sagt dies uns zur KI aus und wie behalten wir online unser Privatsphäre? ;)
Klar möchte Mozille nicht seine letzten User verlieren & @… hat …

Tor Project greift durch: Firefox-KI-Features fliegen aus dem Tor-Browser - Golem.de
Den Entwicklern des Tor-Browsers sind die in Firefox integrierten KI-Features zu gefährlich. Daher wird nun aufgeräumt.

Just me trying to reconcile Baseline listing `<track>` as “widely available” and all browsers shown with green checks when down the page there’s an entire row of red Xes for one of the core accessibility features of `<track>`.
#HTML #accessibility

Je cherche des personnes s'étant inscrit sur #Peertube).
Il y a un peu moins de 4 moins j'avais essayé de upload des vidéos sans succès (Š chaque fois le % revenait Š 0%).

Australian artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain has created 'Slop Evader', a browser extension search tool for either Firefox or Chrome that evades AI slop by using the Google search API to only return content created before ChatGPT's first public release on November 30, 2022: https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

If you are on Android and use the IronFox browser you can change the application icon. The retro 2004 one is the best.
#ironfox #firefox

@…
<https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/wayback-machine_new/> – the official Internet Archive Wayback Machine browser extension for Firefox.

»Minimal files config for a PWA:
This is the minimal set of files for a "progressive web app" to be installable on Android and iOS.«
Cool min example to develop PWA apps. This means that native tools for developing apps as smartphones are now also available under Firefox & Co.
🧑‍💻 https://github.com/chr15m/minima…

GitHub - chr15m/minimal-pwa: Minimal files + config for a PWA
Minimal files + config for a PWA. Contribute to chr15m/minimal-pwa development by creating an account on GitHub.

＂… In an 8 GB VM, FreeBSD used a non-trivial 1.8 GB of RAM. …＂
For desktop use: a machine with 8 GB should be fine 👍
Screenshots here show a 1 GB machine running KDE Plasma with LibreOffice, vscode (Code - OSS), Firefox with YouTube and four other windows, htop in Konsole, and YouTube playing very smoothly in Konqueror.
After quitting everything except Konsole: less than 700 M real memory was used, some of which was ZFS ARC – a good thing.
This is not to recommend a …