Apologies if this is old news, however for the first time I just noticed a new option in my context (right click) menu in Firefox: Ask an "AI chatbot (Z)". I've been disabling AI related stuff in anything at adds it, and found no new option in settings for this one. There was, however, an option in the same context menu for "Remove chatbot." After using that, I don't see the option anymore.
I know many people here no longer use Firefox, but I wanted to give a heads up to any who still do. I noticed this in build 144.0, which I just updated to.
There is no such thing as a secure browser. I switched back from Brave to Google Chrome because Brave simply crashed yesterday (After last uppdate) when I clicked to see more bookmarks! No matter if I reinstalled Brave, it crashed. So it turns out that Brave is significantly slower than Chrome.
I actually had to create a new user to get the menu option to return. Fun adventure. Did you know that if a user doesn't have a home directory and you log into them and open Nautilus, it'll hang the entire system looping an error message? Good times. -_-
Full disclosure: I didn't disable everything on the firefox profile for the new user; I didn't want to waste the time. But the AI chatbot option in the screenshot is the same as the one I got while on my actual user. The option to remove the chatbot is under Ask an AI Chatbot.
They didn't even realize, their no longer holding Storm Trooper issued disruptors, their now holding water guns. Here, time to cool off, this desert heat at Moss Eisley space port, can be awful.
I think your question got missed. Sorry about that. If you're familiar with the term "enshittification," Firefox has been suffering it for some time. In the simplest terms, it's the process of things getting worse for users for the sake of making money. Firefox has slowly been changing in ways that aren't great for users, and not too long ago changed their terms of service in a way that freed them up to do more with user data. There was a major backlash, and Firefox's damage control wasn't very good.
A lot of people went elsewhere as a result, but right now there are issues with pretty much all of the major browsers or their policies. I've stuck with Firefox for only one reason, really: concerns about the vulnerabilities inherent in a software monoculture. (Almost all browsers in significant use are based on either Chromium or Safari's browser engine, which I think is called Webkit.) If every browser is using the same underlying tech, down to code, a vulnerability affecting that code affects virtually everyone. Better to have a handful of different engines with decent market share so one vulnerability doesn't hit everyone, and so people have something else to use while their browser of choice gets a fix out.
Thanks for the explanation. I tried to research about Firefox,Brave and Vivaldi and in the end, none of them are 100% safe for end user. Like you said, they only care about making money atm I am trying Brave, will see
