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Firefox Sidebar Includes AI Chatbot Now
(lemmy.world)
Super frustrating the AI Chatbots are infecting my Firefox browser now. It looks like malware and pretty much acts like it since it cannot be disabled from the sidebar outside of closing this window. I like vertical tabs, but they require so many other options by default. Even more frustrating that the URL goes to a chrome browser link: chrome://browser/content/genai/chat.html
Alarms very heightened.
chrome:// doesn't refer to Google Chrome. Way before Google appropriated the word, probably to crowd out any other meaning in search results, "browser chrome" referred to the browser application's UI.
But yeah, fuck Mozilla for doing this shit.
I am not clicking on it to find out so I'll take your word for it. None of it is accessible in their settings page and about: URLs would suffice to not trigger alarm bells.
You can verify it for yourself. It is a folder inside of your Firefox Profile. It will contain a file called userChrome.css if you made changes to the UI. You don't need to click on that address to see it. You can look in your Profile folder to see what's there.
That's not how UserChrome works.
I'm not saying it isn't true! I'm familiar.