Firefox as an AI Browser is actively going against the expectations users have on this product
Firefox has made its niche in the browser lands by being a usable user-friendly non-Chromium Privacy-First Browser. adding AI to it does nothing to improve or advance this image users have of it, and rather risks actively dicouraging new users from migrating to it, and further could result in a large group of your existing userbase leaving to find a less; unfortunately the word used for this process is enshittification; shittified browser. LLMs and other Generative AI features are tools that a vanishingly small segment of your userbase want in their browser, and certainly an addition that will drive many users away from it if it continues to be added to a large-enough extent to declare firefox as an "AI Browser". Why not just offer a different browser entirely under the mozzila umbrella that is an AI-Forward Browser, and leave Firefox to us crotchety old men yelling at clouds that would rather not interact with the flagrant waste of resources that is generative AI.
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Exactly! So-called AI has a huge environmental, social, and most relevantly, PRIVACY cost associated with it. And the huge majority of Firefox's userbase is skeptical of it at best. I will NEVER use a SINGLE AI feature in my browser, and if Mozilla keeps pushing it in that direction, I'll have no choice but to find a different browser.