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Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …

All AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what 'opt-in' means to different people (e.g. is a new toolbar button opt-in?), but the kill switch will absolutely remove all that stuff, and never show it in future. That's unambiguous. …

I'm not asking for faith in our direction - the thing I love about the Firefox community is how open, honest, and technical it is. But I do ask that you don't have the opposite of faith. Like, try not to be determined that we're going to do the wrong thing here. …

I hope we can (re)gain your trust here. I don't personally work on this stuff, but I'll try hard to answer any questions you have. And other than that, I'll get back in my lane, and stick to web platform stuff. - Jake (@jakearchibald.com)

Thanks Jake! I trust you as a person and your intentions a lot, so I hope you have enough power to steer that ship in the right directions! For me Firefox feels like a two-sided coin rn: glad Theo are here, glad they have an engine to not make Google and Apple the duopoly

But on the other side doing some things in recent years that simply don't look good :/ I guess, the issue in the end is funding. Building a fully fleshed out browser engine is expensive as hell and when your main product is a free thing for the world, it's really hard to finance that :/