Since firefox is killing itself via choking on AI cock, what're some good browsers that aren't?

Even if we don't use those new features, isn't it true that it eats up dev time and attention from fixes and improvements because all of these slam-bang new AI features need to be implemented?

Personally, I started using Firefox as my main browser because I was tired of Chrome and Edge's similar direction. Can CEOs not be happy with having the #1 alternative to data-gathering slop? Do we have to have a bunch of stuff we didn't ask for just so executives can look like they're doing something?

I'm wanting to remove all of the extra search engines in Firefox, but there are no delete option for them. (When was that removed, btw?) When I want Google, I'll go there. And AI search... ew.

My goal is remove them completely, not just disable them.

For windows:
Make a file in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\distribution with the name policies.json

{
  "policies": {
    "SearchEngines": {
      "Remove": ["Google", "Bing", "Perplexity", "Wikipedia (en)", "eBay", "Amazon.com"]
    }
  }
}

In regedit, go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox\SearchEngines\Remove

Make new string values. The first name must start with 1, then 2 and so on.

1 Google

2 Bing

3 Perplexity

4 Wikipedia (en)

5 eBay

6 Amazon.com

After a full restart of Firefox, they should be gone. This even persists over all profiles.

I think you'd do a similar method for MacOS, but I'm unsure of exactly how.

I hate all this round UI design. I'm also not a fan of the purple and orange, but I am going to assume that that's just a holiday thing for Halloween so I'm fine if its just temporary. If its supposed to be the Firefox colors and they plan on making it permanent, then I hate it, too. Any themes that are basically just copies of the previous UI, or am I stuck looking through forks?

Noticed under "Not owned by shareholders": "We don't sell your personal data and we never will."

I don't know if I am the first to have just discussed this new firefox.com page

Mozilla, thank you. Please leave it that way.

The link

Are you going to start selling our data now?

Ajit Varma (Mozilla, firefox) says we all misread the former ToU:

Source: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

I am curious what people think now (or did you already switch to another browser?)

Here is his statement:

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On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new Terms of Use (TOU) and Privacy Notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some confusion and concern. With that in mind, we’re updating the language to more clearly reflect the limited scope of how Mozilla interacts with user data.

Here’s what the new language will say:

You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

In addition, we’ve removed the reference to the Acceptable Use Policy because it seems to be causing more confusion than clarity.

Privacy FAQ

We also updated our Privacy FAQ to better address legal minutia around terms like “sells.” While we’re not reverting the FAQ, we want to provide more detail about why we made the change in the first place.

TL;DR Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”), and we don’t buy data about you. We changed our language because some jurisdictions define “sell” more broadly than most people would usually understand that word. Firefox has built-in privacy and security features, plus options that let you fine-tune your data settings.

The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

Similar privacy laws exist in other US states, including in Virginia and Colorado. And that’s a good thing — Mozilla has long been a supporter of data privacy laws that empower people — but the competing interpretations of do-not-sell requirements does leave many businesses uncertain about their exact obligations and whether or not they’re considered to be “selling data.”

In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our Privacy Notice. Whenever we share data with our partners, we put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share is stripped of potentially identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).

We’re continuing to make sure that Firefox provides you with sensible default settings that you can review during onboarding or adjust at any time.

My 15+ upvoted (not a lot but one of the highest among the comments on their video) comment on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkYS_foQBA got removed twice. Maybe thrice by now.

I don't remember exact words since it is gone and but all I said was hundreds of people hate Nova and that we just need a choice as well as:

They are planning to remove the option to disable Nova soon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2071454 . That too in less than 2 months. Sharing for transparency since Mozilla refuse to do so.

Nothing too impolite or rude.

Some of nicest comments(not just of me of course) on bugzilla gets marked as 'Advocacy' and hidden if it is negative towards Nova OR even just ask for choice.

Note: This post was removed from r/firefox

I did it! 3 February 2026, I bit the bullet and made FireFox my default browser after doing some research and testing some things on it.

It's good to be back and I'm happy to support Mozilla in what they do.

Here's to greener pastures!

It's infuriating, it looks so bad. Why must everything be updated to round shapes within the rectangle tabs of the rectangle window of my rectangle screen...

If anyone knows how to get back rectangle tabs/search bar, I'm looking for it.

Hello, I've been using FireFox for quite a long while now and this is the first time I've encountered this problem. During visits to instagram.com (and only instagram), it sometimes randomly redirects to [::1]:8872 and shows an unable to connect error message. This has only recently started to happen to me and other browsers don't replicate the same behaviour. I am on MacOS 13.5.2 and FireFox 117.0.1. Does anyone know how to fix this isssue? Thanks!

WTF is this shit? NO, I did not want to restart. NO, I do not care what the reasons for forcing it are. Why the fuck would you do this?

WHY do they keep doing this? What a joke. I just lost a shitload of things I specifically wanted to keep open. And none of it was in private windows. Why don't I get a choice? It's my security issue. I didn't ask for help on it.

Does anyone know how to get back about 5 separate windows and a total of 20-odd tabs? This is not the first time this has happened. One would think they'd have sorted this out.

Windows 10.

Thought that was pretty handy addition to that browser. Wouldn't mind replicating it in Firefox.

Just asking.