Mozilla is working on an AI kill switch for the Firefox open-source web browser to let users completely disable all AI features.

After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla’s new CEO that Firefox will evolve into “a modern AI browser,” the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser.

On Tuesday, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo was named the new CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the company behind the beloved Firefox web browser used by almost all GNU/Linux distributions as the default browser.

In his message as new CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo stated that Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software while remaining the company’s anchor, and that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

What was not made clear is that Firefox will also ship with an AI kill switch that will let users completely disable all the AI features that are included in Firefox. Mozilla shared this important update earlier today to make it clear to everyone that Firefox will still be a trusted web browser.

  • troed@fedia.io
    4619·
    11 hours ago

    If all Firefox users donated to Mozilla it could work. Alas, we don’t.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Pretty much this.

      They are making market based decisions because they have to, and all the users bitching and moaning about them making financially driven decisions don’t donate anyways.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
      552·
      10 hours ago

      I probably would, if the organizational structure and its spending focus(es) weren’t so fucked up. They have been spending insane amounts of money on bullshit like AI instead of core browser features, and their leadership has extremely high wages for something that should be a non-profit open source organization. And it has been like this for years at this point.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        162·
        9 hours ago

        Their CEO makes more than I think CEOs should earn in general, but the rest of their executives earn relatively normal to low salaries for their roles and the sector.

        Non-profit doesn’t mean everyone works for free.

      • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        10 hours ago

        Well to be fair they only had that or onlyfans to get paid to sit there playing with themselves.

    • DoctorPress@lemmy.zipEnglish
      51·
      7 hours ago

      That’s what I call reverse reasoning.

      You sound like mozilla is adding because of lack of donations meanwhile correct is there is lack of donations because features nobody asked for like AI.

        • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
          4·
          5 hours ago

          No money you donate to Mozilla Foundation goes to either Firefox (MozCorp) or Thunderbird (MZLA).
          They are separate entities.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      10 hours ago

      Then let’s

      How? Where? I’ll donate, take my money, and ads a voting system where paying users can vote for the next features