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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://corteximplant.com/@ann3nova" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ann3nova</span></a></span> I'd choose <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TorBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TorBrowser</span></a> instead:</p><pre><code>wget https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/14.5.5/tor-expert-bundle-linux-x86_64-14.5.5.tar.gz<br>tar xf ./tor-expert-bundle-linux-x86_64-14.5.5.tar.gz<br>mkdir $HOME/.apps/<br>mv ./tor-browser-bundle $HOME/.apps/<br>cd $HOME<br>./.apps/tor-browser-bundle/start-tor-browser.desktop<br></code></pre><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a></p>
Open Source Italia :gnu:<p>Pare che molti abbiano le ventole del loro PC che girano a manetta e le temperature alle stelle. </p><p>E il colpevole non è il caldo d'agosto, è <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> che consuma tutti i core della CPU per le nuove funzionalità IA attivate di default. Mozilla, nella sua infinita saggezza, ha integrato bot LLM su Firefox per “l’essenziale” scopo di nominare i gruppi di schede. </p><p><a href="https://pc-gaming.it/la-nuova-ia-di-firefox-rallenta-i-pc/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pc-gaming.it/la-nuova-ia-di-fi</span><span class="invisible">refox-rallenta-i-pc/</span></a></p><p>Complimenti a <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> per la sempre ottima mira nello spararsi ai piedi.</p><p>💬 Siamo sul gruppo: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://diggita.com/c/opensource" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>opensource@diggita.com</span></a></span></p>
Strange New Words (Adam)<p>The <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> hashtag on Bluesky is very different from the <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> hashtag on Mastodon!</p>
Strange New Words (Adam)<p>TL;DR version:</p><p>1. Firefox shipped some janky AI features.<br>2. People's CPUs and fans are really struggling.<br>3. Disable AI in Firefox by going to about:config and setting browser.ml.enable and browser.ml.chat.enabled to False.<br>4. Still better than Chrome.</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/08/13/fir</span><span class="invisible">efox_ai_scoffing_power/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
MissConstrue<p>Are you a <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> user? Have you noticed that your <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> is suddenly redlining your system? Sucking up vast amounts of memory, cpu and gpu cycles? You may have been infested by the predictive spellcheckers MBAs want to call “AI”. It is not. It is a resource hog so they could help you sort tabs? What the actual fuck? </p><p>Anyway, I got you. The Register is all over how to reconfigure your browser to rid yourself of that meddlesome bot. </p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/08/13/fir</span><span class="invisible">efox_ai_scoffing_power/</span></a></p>
Paul Czege<p>My linux desktop computer has been putting out a lot of heat and Firefox has been using a ton of cpu until I saw this article today and turned off its new default AI features.</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/08/13/fir</span><span class="invisible">efox_ai_scoffing_power/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a></p>
knoppix<p>Don’t worry, the fox will follow you to Linux too! 🦊✨</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mozilla" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mozilla</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArchLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArchLinux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinuxMint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinuxGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Desktop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UserFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibreWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibreWolf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Edge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Edge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brave</span></a></p>
:blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑<p>So it turns out Mozilla are indeed in the business of pissing on their users.</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/08/13/fir</span><span class="invisible">efox_ai_scoffing_power/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a></p>
Thomas<p>If you are using <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> 👇 </p><p>1️⃣ about:config <br>2️⃣ browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled 👉 false<br>3️⃣ browser.ml.chat.enabled 👉 false<br>4️⃣ extensions.ml.enabled 👉 false</p>
My Actual Brain<p>I'm frustrated with Firefox. Longer ChatGPT conversations (usually coding stuff) makes the browser window hang.</p><p>This still happens on Chromium, but not until much later. Additionally, in BigBlueButton, you can join the classroom much quicker with Chromium. </p><p>When using Firefox there is a message about it taking longer than expected.</p><p>I want to keep using Firefox so there is not a browser monopoly, but these are two big issues for me.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chrome</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bigbluebutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbluebutton</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a></p>
kazé<p>Précision : remplacer <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> par <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ZenBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZenBrowser</span></a>, ça n’est pas vraiment quitter Firefox. On passe à un fork encore plus soucieux de nos vies privées, et débarrassé des fonctionnalités que personne n’a demandées, mais ça reste un <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gecko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gecko</span></a>.</p><p>Par ailleurs, on garde le compte Firefox qui permet de sauvegarder ses cookies et mots de passe. Si l’aventure Zen devait s’arrêter, ou si Mozilla recouvrait la raison, on pourrait revenir à Firefox d’un clic.</p><p>Zen, c’est juste le meilleur de Firefox.</p>
Neil Brown<p>Annoyingly though, Firefox does still seem to be the best choice for me, in terms of a Free software browser.</p><p>But perhaps I should go back to getting it from the Debian repo, accepting that it will be an older version, rather than from Mozilla's own apt repo.</p><p><a href="https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/03/what-if-anything-should-i-do-about-using-mozillas-firefox/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neilzone.co.uk/2025/03/what-if</span><span class="invisible">-anything-should-i-do-about-using-mozillas-firefox/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a></p>
Neil Brown<p># Am I (still?) in Mozilla's target audience?</p><p>With the latest update of Firefox, and the latest opportunity to dive into about:config to switch things off, I ask myself *again* if I am really part of Mozilla's target audience or not.</p><p><a href="https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/09/am-i-still-in-mozillas-target-audience/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neilzone.co.uk/2024/09/am-i-st</span><span class="invisible">ill-in-mozillas-target-audience/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a></p>
Fritzfischtfisch<p>Ich nutze <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> ohne Anmeldung jetzt schon ne Weile, will mich auch nicht anmelden. Jetzt poppt in <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> und <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/fennec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fennec</span></a> diese Frage auf:</p><p>Soll ChatGPT.com Daten im dauerhaften Speicher speichern dürfen?</p><p>Kann es auch nur temporär nicht erlauben.<br>Kann man das dauerhaft abschalten? </p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/kuketz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kuketz</span></a><br><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/grapheneos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grapheneos</span></a></p>
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK<p>Old PC which had Win10, core I3 CPU and only 4GB RAM was (unsurprisingly) slow and laggy, as an experiment I installed <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/LinuxMint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMint</span></a> on it with lightweight <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> desktop.</p><p>It is a fair bit more usable now (still slightly laggy probably due to me transferring my entire camera roll from Dropbox which is currently hammering all the resources) - definitely has potential as a backup PC in the office for light admin tasks, it could handle MS365 web apps (which alas, get used a lot here as well as Sharepoint) - (even the network printer worked "out of the box" via CUPS!)</p><p>[This toot is direct from the PC via <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/LinuxDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxDesktop</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
Birk Marold<p>Would like to promote the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> / <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/librewolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>librewolf</span></a> extension <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Ublacklist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ublacklist</span></a> here. Motivated by seeing a post about <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/aislop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aislop</span></a> summaries pretty much every where these days. </p><p>Ublacklist allows to hide search results from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/searchengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengine</span></a> results like <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ecosia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bing</span></a>. </p><p>Next to each result is a small block icon which adds the domain to the filter and not 1 link of this site will reappear in your results.</p><p>Each time the result of a website is clearly <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> generated I block the whole domain. Last week I searched an issue about CNC milling and 9 out of the 10 first results on duckduckgo had been ai crap that didn't answer any questions but just rephrased a question multiple times.</p><p>Probably sysifus work but I'm feeling pretty good about making sure I'm never kicking a second time on basically fake links of fake websites. </p><p>Try it! If search engine companies can't do a good job or don't want to, I'm happy I can do it myself and stop them being able to show shit to me.</p><p><a href="https://ublacklist.github.io/docs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ublacklist.github.io/docs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Bob 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/08/13/fir</span><span class="invisible">efox_ai_scoffing_power/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a></p>
Reay<p>Does anyone who uses <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> know how I can open new tabs RIGHT BESIDE the one I'm currently in, rather than way down at the end of the line of open tabs?</p><p>I'm often using FF in a tab that's to the left of newer tabs open. But if I then open something newer, it's usually to refer to at the moment, or something I want to check out soon, without having to scroll to the end of the tabs to get to.</p><p>I know I can then pull the tab back over right beside the currently live one, but I'm just hoping to somehow make this a default instead of needing to manually shift stuff around all the time.</p><p>(And yes, I know I shouldn't have a lot of tabs open all the time anyway... I'm getting better but clearly still need to work on it...)</p>
leeleedee<p>Just had the weirdest experience with my <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> PC.</p><p> A client sent me a link to a <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/MicrosoftTeams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicrosoftTeams</span></a> meeting that i participated in via my <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> browser.</p><p>In the beginning it was just me and one other person in the call, and everything was fine. As soon as the 3rd and final person joined the call however my computer kind of went haywire - it was as if the mouse was suddenly clicking on random places on the screen and opening up random apps. I had to really struggle to close things down and keep focused on the meeting.</p><p>It persisted even after I left the call, closed down the firefox window and I had to do a hard restart of the computer to get it to stop, cause I couldn't even control the mouse to shut down normally.</p><p>Everything was fine again as soon as I restarted the system. </p><p>Anyone have any idea what might have caused this? And how to avoid it happening again?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/ComputerHelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHelp</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/FediHelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediHelp</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>This post also provides instructions to turn off the new AI features of Firefox.</p><p><a href="https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-under-fire-for-firefox-ai-bloat-that-blows-up-cpu-and-drains-battery" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">neowin.net/news/mozilla-under-</span><span class="invisible">fire-for-firefox-ai-bloat-that-blows-up-cpu-and-drains-battery</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mozilla</span></a></p>