Recently, Mozilla officially appointed Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as the new CEO and announced its intriguing "AI-first" strategy, which plans to integrate multiple large artificial intelligence models directly into the core features of the Firefox browser. This move aims to enhance the competitiveness of Firefox, especially as its market share has dropped below 3%. The new strategy includes adding summary, rewriting, and search assistant functions next to browser tabs, and a "global off" button that allows users to choose whether to use these features or not.

However, this plan has sparked strong opposition from the developer community, with many expressing dissatisfaction with this decision. Alex Kontos, the developer maintaining the Firefox fork project Waterfox, was the first to reject the integration of large AI models, arguing that it would contradict Firefox's "do not track" philosophy. Developers are concerned that once AI-assisted features are enabled, web context information would need to be sent back to third-party cloud servers for processing, which could threaten user privacy and security.

In addition, developers are also wary of "prompt injection" technology, believing that attackers might use it to manipulate the behavior of AI and even steal users' passwords and Cookie information. Kontos emphasized that the browser should be a tool for users, not a broker for users, and must distinguish between auditable machine learning and unpredictable large language models (LLMs).

Key points:

🌐 Mozilla announced that AI models will be integrated into Firefox, aiming to improve its market competitiveness.  

⚠️ Developers expressed concerns about privacy and security issues, opposing the integration of AI technology.  

🔒 Concerns that AI-assisted features may threaten user data security, developers call for attention to privacy.