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Mozilla Support Update: End of Japanese Community, Mozilla Doubles Down on AI (www.quippd.com)

submitted 1 month ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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TL;DR: On the November 2025 Mozilla Support Community call, Mozilla provided updates on the recent controversy from the Japanese Support Mozilla community quitting over AI. During the call, Mozilla doubled down on AI, confirming that volunteers would be unable to disable AI translations across the entire Mozilla knowledge-base, with the American English version of articles serving as the blessed, canonical version. Locale specific contributions will be overwritten (by design) by AI.

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[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've uninstalled Firefox. Will the forks of Firefox also suffer from this or are they detached enough to go at it solo from here?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This technically isn't about Firefox, but about the Mozilla Support community, which supports Firefox and other Mozilla products. Forks don't direct their users to Mozilla Support, so they are not affected.

Bad documentation can spread, though. We know AI will be consuming the slop that Mozilla generates and will feed it back to people.

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't Mozilla also adding AI to the user experience though?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, they are.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

vivaldi specifically takes an anti ai in browser stance and has a built in tracker and blocker which you can add adp syntax filterlists to.

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like Vivaldi and use it on my Linux machines. I wasn't aware and didn't bother looking for it on mobile until just now, thank you.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

yeah it's not hidden hidden but it's just in the settings (for anyone else who wants it)

in mobile it's under settings > tracker and ad blocking

[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Waterfox is as detached as it gets. Copy over your profile folder and it's about as intrusive and experience-altering as a browser update. You can still use Mozilla's addon store if you want. Your existing addons and data will all seamlessly migrate from FF to WF.

"This" particular event is about support pages in non-English languages, not anything in the browser specifically. So "it" isn't exactly capable of impacting the browser.