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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.
And this is why I switched to LibreWolf. LibreWolf doesn't try to be anything but a web browser.
I wish there was LibreWolf for Android. Right now I'm happy with Fennec, but people also recommend Ironfox.
I also kinda wish LibreWolf worked better on MacOS. Luckily this was the perfect excuse to get my parents on Linux. The stupid AI crap and other enshitification really adds usability burdens to less tech literate users.
Librewolf for the win!
And regarding Linux, it's pretty ironic right? I also moved my Dad to Linux, because it's easier to support him on what was historically a "less user friendly" operating system than Windows, because Linux isn't screwing around and pushing unwanted and user-hostile changes. It remains exactly as you set it up to be, and that's perfect.