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Another user said this, but I'm going to echo it -- Firefox opened up the LLM chat sidebar one time. I closed it. It's stayed closed. It hasn't asked me to open it again. I don't understand the hatred for something you can just _not use_. People will use it if they want to. Firefox also has a very tiny market share in comparison to other browsers.

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barnabee|3 months ago

I need things I don’t want to use to not appear in the UI.

I don’t fill my house with tools and products I don’t want and I’m not willing to have them on my computer screen either.

Krssst|3 months ago

It does not show up in the UI once disabled, does not re-enable again and does not pester the user into enabling it again as proprietary software often does.

I can understand criticism on the development time that may have been better spent, but less criticism against the existence of something that is fairly easily disabled and not user-hostile in intent.

I disabled the AI stuff immediately on my side (through the regular UI, not about:config settings) and never saw anything AI-related in Firefox afterwards.

It's worrying seeing Firefox getting so much more criticism than all the more user-hostile browsers that end up benefiting from such somewhat unwarranted criticism against the most popular non-hostile browser.

jjpones|3 months ago

> I need things I don’t want to use to not appear in the UI.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Similarly, current youtube is unusable without element blocking and custom CSS editing. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to remove UI elements from Firefox, no?

arp242|3 months ago

Different people want different features. Insisting Firefox never shows you anything you personally don't use is a bizarre unworkable demand.

cyberrock|3 months ago

I can't speak for everyone but the fact that it appears suddenly at all is rather annoying. It's like a blast of cosmic rays aimed right at my Error-Producing memory. You can tell me that I won a billion dollars and the solution to the Kryptos puzzle and I would still seethe over forgetting the what band I was about to look up.

That said Firefox is pretty good at obeying its own "Recommend me new features" option.

tartoran|3 months ago

I don't like shoved down user throats features but i feel that Firefox has to evolve with times or simply wither. It's important how they do proceed with that tough. So far they're not abusive in behavior. I'm back to Firefox after giving up in Chrome and I'm quite pleased with it. Firefox is best for me.