I know any dissenting topics about AI features get locked so feel free. But your consumer-base clearly does not welcome the trend.
Firefox has always been the cleaner, leaner, more private and more user-centric option to Chrome/Edge. Following those browsers’ lead in their own poor feature decisions is not how any Firefox user would expect Mozilla to behave.
This isn’t some neo-Luddite take; we all recognize the potential value of LLMs and their potential impact on the future of the digital world. And Mozilla/Firefox is part of that world, and needs to be responsive.
But LLMs in any consumer sense are barely two years old. The technology is not ready to become a feature function in most cases, much less a current-day web browser. It’s relatively slow, it’s more often wrong, and it’s opaque in its rational, biases and thought processes. All of that is the anti-thesis of what Firefox users expect from the product.
I’m just asking to give it time. From a business perspective I know more traditional leadership will bark that we need to “keep up or fall behind” but this isn’t meant to be advice taken bluntly. You don’t make the same mistakes as your competition, that’s not how you keep up, that’s how you lose consumer trust and user volume.