I’m already seeing sites telling how to block FF’s AI baby steps … which I discovered were already present in the FF I use. https://equk.co.uk/2025/10/28/firefox-forcing-llm-features/ Who knows how badly they’ll mess themselves up by not being -completely tranparent- about this stuff and -not- making it really easy to disable. It’s still possible to download older versions of FF to fall back on … in case they lose their minds.

Used it ever since iCab went away. Tried all the rest, they don’t measure up.

I DO get tired of skating along looking for the ?

“♫ Crypto ♫ through the tulips ♫ come drink up ♫ crypto juleps … with meeee”

I install and use FF from my home folder. As a result, I can simply copy my ‘old’ firefox folder and .mozilla folder (containing the FF config files) into the new distro’s home. That way all of the features, settings, and extensions remain the same, regardless of the distro I’ve moved to.

Inside the .mozilla/Firefox/ folder you’ll find separate folders for your profiles. The ‘about:profiles’ window lets you switch between them.If you want to experiment with one, make an archive of its folder. If you try something that doesn’t work out, you can throw the messed-up profile away and extract a fresh copy from your archive, all’s well. There are also many files INSIDE that profile folder you can toy with. Many, many options in this setup.

Easy to complain about it, but when you don’t offer a better alternative, it leads nowhere.

Linux Mint puts out a great OS for a few thousand per month. With the start it’s got, Firefox could go on for decades without more income.