Comment by barnabee
I need things I don’t want to use to not appear in the UI.
I don’t fill my house with tools and products I don’t want and I’m not willing to have them on my computer screen either.
I need things I don’t want to use to not appear in the UI.
I don’t fill my house with tools and products I don’t want and I’m not willing to have them on my computer screen either.
My recollection is that without the about:config changes there were still unwanted bits of UI like menu items. If that’s fixed then great.
As it is I have switched to Zen as it appears more clearly user-aligned and works better for me as a result of their improvements and UI tweaks.
> I need things I don’t want to use to not appear in the UI.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Similarly, current youtube is unusable without element blocking and custom CSS editing. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to remove UI elements from Firefox, no?
It does not show up in the UI once disabled, does not re-enable again and does not pester the user into enabling it again as proprietary software often does.
I can understand criticism on the development time that may have been better spent, but less criticism against the existence of something that is fairly easily disabled and not user-hostile in intent.
I disabled the AI stuff immediately on my side (through the regular UI, not about:config settings) and never saw anything AI-related in Firefox afterwards.
It's worrying seeing Firefox getting so much more criticism than all the more user-hostile browsers that end up benefiting from such somewhat unwarranted criticism against the most popular non-hostile browser.