God I wish chrome didn’t remove manifest v2 
Here is the list of things that piss me off about firefox:
- It is dogshit slow
- It eats up a ludicrous amounts of RAM, which I wasn’t expecting since it’s one of the main things people make fun of chrome for
- It crashes constantly
- It tries to push it’s “AI” bullshit on me despite me turning it off on multiple occasions
- It puts ads on my home page
- It needs to be relaunched regularly because at some point it becomes too laggy to use. It even stops loading pages altogether
- “Restore previous session” feature doesn’t work half the time so restarting the browser is absolutely terrifying
- Profile management is a mess
Are there any alternatives? Is Brave any good?
I’ve been using Firefox for years, and I’ve never noticed ai being forced into it.
I’m talking about this thing that keep popping up with seemingly every update:
There was also some “AI summary” thing that popped up once but I turned it off and won’t come back now thankfully
The AI shit is new. To disable it all, type about:config in the address bar and turn all these to false:
browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.menu
browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
Oooh thanks for this. I wasn’t staying on top of the new settings so this is really helpful.
If anyone is making these or other about:config changes you need to restart the browser to effectively save them.
:sicko-yes:
huh, I have never seen that popup. maybe they’re doing a slow rollout?
Maybe? I ended up getting it and disabling it straight away, had I been in a less lazy mood I probably would’ve switched browsers entirely, though all of the big ones have their own AI bullshit now as well.
This is literally the first time I’ve seen that. Like holy shit, that would push me to uninstall…but then, I am using Firefox accounts to sync, tabs and passwords and whatnots…
Bleak shit, sorry you have to deal with that!