You're not a normal user of Firefox then.

ivan_gammel 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Normal users will be fine if they will see two big squares side by side as an installation step: „with AI“ and „without AI“, where the former will just install and enable the plugin. Explicit choice is better than opt-out, and it’s not going to be something people frequently change their mind about, so another switch can be buried in settings.

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azemetre 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Firefox has <5% of browser share, no one is a normal user of firefox.

	▲	araes 17 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Was actually looking for somebody mentioning this bit. Admittedly, one of the few regular Firefox users. Yet, as a regular Firefox user, this much ranting about something that can be turned off with a click, is kind of annoying. The stuff that's been added so far ("Allow AI to read the beginning of the page and generate key points", "Solo AI Website Creator", "Sidebar AI chatbot") is incredibly easy to disable. Been in advanced, beta, dev releases for a while. Edge has a larger market share (4%-7% depending on who you ask) Firefox has (2%-6%, similar issue). Firefox mostly scores well among Wikimedia users and tracking. (High as 15% recently) Firefox barely even registers with Mobile users (0.5%-1.5%). And. They both pale in comparison to Chrome (56%-69%) and Safari (14%-24%) in terms of user base / market share. People can argue and rant about Firefox doing something, yet they're arguing about 2%-6% of the WWW users currently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-20... https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/ https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share https://www.statista.com/statistics/545520/market-share-of-i...
	▲	werdnapk 17 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I've been a normal user of Firefox for over 20 years.

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999900000999 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Who is a "normal" user.

Normal users install Chrome.

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bayindirh 20 hours ago | parent [-]

We want "normal" users to use Firefox, not to push it to a smaller niche with more force. Even though I don't like or use this "AI thingy", it should be equally easy to use and equally easy to disable.

If Firefox can provide a more anonymized gate to these providers and guarantee that prompts are not used for training, this would be a net win for people who want to use AI but doesn't know better, i.e. the "normal" users.

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reyqn 20 hours ago | parent [-]

That's how normal users stay on chrome while your users leave firefox. That's how you get no users at all.

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andrepd 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Hardly. Hundreds of millions of "normies" want a browser that just "gets rid of ads and spam and stuff". If ff can be that go-to browser, they have hundreds of millions of potential users.

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reyqn 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Potential users are not users, and firefox can't be that browser. Actually that browser is brave, and it also doesn't have hundred of millions of users. You can't fight defaults browsers, people don't care.

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bayindirh 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't get this dark/pessimistic/Firefox's so done view many people love to harp. Do we want Firefox to return, or to die? We should decide and act accordingly.

Telling Firefox to not to move and get out of the place where it currently is a great contradiction in itself.

Many potential Chrome users were not users, and now they are. You can change public opinion by putting your money where your mouth is, and being persistent about it.

Also, let's not forget that Firefox is kinda preventing itself being detected via standard mechanisms so global analytics show its numbers a bit low than the reality, as well.

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reyqn 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Many potential Chrome users were not users, and then android happened. I'll believe firefox has a shot to become mainstream when they do something similar. Until them, keep your users or alienate them and disappear.

	▲	bayindirh 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'll agree to disagree here and will leave to get a fresh mug of coffee. Unless we meet in another thread, merry Christmas and happy new year in advance.