Super frustrating the AI Chatbots are infecting my Firefox browser now. It looks like malware and pretty much acts like it since it cannot be disabled from the sidebar outside of closing this window. I like vertical tabs, but they require so many other options by default. Even more frustrating that the URL goes to a chrome browser link: chrome://browser/content/genai/chat.html

Alarms very heightened.

  • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    11 days ago

    Bye bye Firefox. What’s a gecko browser that doesn’t have this shit?

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldOP
        3·
        11 days ago

        In my experience, it conflicts with image uploads and postings in very strange ways. I’ll simply get an image with a uniform pattern of RGB hex values. In my line of work, that don’t play.

        • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
          9·
          11 days ago

          That’s the anti-fingerprinting tampering with HTML canvas to prevent it from being used to fingerprint your browser. Anti-fingerprinting is awesome, but as you’ve discovered, does not play nice with many (legitimate) uses. Unfortunately, the only solution is to turn fingerprinting off. There are a couple ways of doing this. The first way is to just disable the whole fucking thing from the settings, but Librewolf makes strong arguments for leaving it on, and those are pretty justified. Another option is to have a non-fingerprint-protection profile you can open sites in when you have problems in your default configuration for sites you generally trust. That can get tedious. You can also use an addon for canvas-blocking instead, there are quite a few, including CanvasBlocker.

          Basically, once you turn off the resist-fingerprinting (RFP) LibreWolf is still very privacy-oriented, but generally just works flawlessly. The RFP defaults to on for a reason, but it can also be disabled for a reason too. If you don’t want it, you don’t have to use it. It’s just a default. And it’s a good default.

        • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2·
          11 days ago

          Librewolf does come with some strict anti-fingerprinting measures to foil tracking, and that includes modifying some images and elements of a webpage displayed. You can find alternative forks that aren’t as aggressive and add things like Ublock origin after.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          11 days ago

          Just use librewolf for everything except what doesn’t work, maybe? I use it as much as I can, but it’s not a perfect 1:1