Sarah Jamie Lewis documents her effort to strip AI integrations from Firefox by creating a massive patch (37MB reduced to 1MB) and proposes that independent browser forks should unite to maintain a version completely isolated from Mozilla's direction. She argues Firefox has drifted too far toward commercial interests and "slop," and explores whether a browser could be rebuilt around a vision of the web as a tool for creation, not just consumption.

• Lewis created a patch removing all AI code from Firefox 153 ESR that affected 1,605 files and deleted 852,297 lines, proving how deeply integrated these features have become in the core browser.
• She believes soft-forking (disabling features) won't work long-term because Mozilla is moving beyond AI integrations toward making the entire browser a "smartwindow" designed for third-party AI agents, requiring complete deletion of the code.
• The author is exploring workarounds like offline content readers (OpenZIM), standalone apps, and feed readers, but sees these as defensive retreats rather than a positive vision for what the web could become.