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submitted 1 week ago by kleeon@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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God I wish chrome didn't remove manifest v2 meow-tableflip

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?

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[–] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I've been using Firefox for years, and I've never noticed ai being forced into it.

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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