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.

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    Firefox’s forks, since the MPL 2.0 (Mozilla Public License) allows their work to be forked.

    The current most popular one is LibreWolf, as it doesn’t include anything extra like this out of the box (Apart from the Ublock Origin adblocker), and has many privacy-conscious settings enabled by default.

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      Plus for librewolf, note that the only issue I’ve had with it is cockpits terminal doesn’t render correctly

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        Yeah it can be quite aggressive with visual elements to fool fingerprinting tactics, but you can change to a different fork if it’s something critical to you :)

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          Yeah, I personally turn some of the fingerprinting protection stuff off to get faster refresh rates. That’s the only downside for me, but I understand why it’s default locked at 60Hz.

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      Thanks for the info … I’ve been meaning to switch over to librewolf and now I’ll do it.