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- FranciscoLopez@lemmy.worldEnglish10 months
They’re not perfect, but having a real alternative engine matters more than people realize.
10 monthsYeah I’m switch off Firefox finally. I tried Floorp it does have some the same AI stuff you have to turn off. Waterfox doesn’t have it in at all. So Waterfox it is.
- SuperSpruce@lemmy.zipEnglish10 months
I know I’m gonna get a lot of flack for suggesting this, but Vivaldi feels like what Firefox should have been. More customizability, less AI and sponsored crap. They are the only major browser offering an option for a small, reasonably sized tab bar rather than the tab bars with 3 layers of padding and more whitespace than text.
Additionally, Vivaldi doesn’t pester you with twice-a-day update pop-ups or worse, the dreaded “Restart to keep using Firefox,” it just gets out of your way like a good browser should.
Vivaldi is not open-source, so it shouldn’t even be considered as an option. Try !waterfox@programming.dev!
- ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish10 months
Well, I still haven’t seen any AI in my Firefox and I’m planing on using it until I will.
- sakuraba@lemmy.mlEnglish10 months
Hold your click for at least one second on any link and it will show a preview of the link and suggest you to use AI to describe it
- mr_account@lemmy.worldEnglish10 months
I genuinely thought you said “hold your dick for at least one second”
- 10 months
Settings > scroll down to “General” > look at the options under “Enable link previews”. You can turn the previews off altogether or just turn off the AI part
- dreamos82@lemmy.worldEnglish10 months
In my opinion this is one of the main issues. All those features should be disabled by default, and only the user decide if they want to enable them!
But they are doing the opposite.
- sakuraba@lemmy.mlEnglish10 months
Thanks I already did that, but it still ticks me off that I had to find out they added this while using the browser. This shit should be off by default.
- tiramichu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish10 months
This is a defence only until it isn’t - although thank you for the tip.
That’s how Windows has been going for years - adding more and more crap and make it all default enabled, and people are like “Oh just turn it off bro.”
Then every update adds more unwanted options that get increasingly difficult to turn off, or randomly turn themselves back on, and before you know it we’ve reached a point where every new install soon needs an entire checklist to go through to make things actually usable again.
That is not how life should be. I want something that respects me by default, and if it wants me to try a feature I might find even slightly objectional, I should have to explicitly opt-in and say YES.
Firefox is setting a precedent by moving in this direction, and they’ve showed their hand. There’s only more where this came from, and I won’t tolerate it, even if I can turn it off.
When the Firefox terms and conditions drama happened some months back, that was the push I needed to switch to Librewolf. It’s a Firefox fork with privacy-respecting settings out of the gate, no sponsored content, no ads, uBlock pre-installed, and absolutely zero AI. If you’re a Firefox user, I recommend you try it too.
