It’s disabled by default, but I had no idea this was added.
Firefox mobile users started noticing something peculiar this week when sharing links to WhatsApp. After hitting that share button, their messages were getting an unexpected tagline: “Sent from Firefox 🦊” with a direct link to the Mozilla app store listing.
The feature appeared quietly, with no fanfare or announcement from Mozilla.
https://piunikaweb.com/2025/11/26/sent-from-firefox-whatsapp-share-signature/
Mozilla speed running the demise of their browser. You hate to see it.
Do they genuinely think it’s a good idea?
Didn’t know Firefox and Whatsapp had overlapping users. I mean whatsapp, good god that shit is bad.
If that’s where the family chat is, I won’t protest until everyone else moves to Signal or something. It’s a minor miracle we could get both parents to start using the same one platform back then. You add a simple recolor and they feel like an Armenian in upper China with a map of Congo written in Hebrew.
Also, work chat.
I know it’s extremely popular in a lot of places, often the default over even phone numbers. I am in a place like that.
But I refuse. Nothing could get me to participate.
Why did you push so hard to get family to chat? If mine don’t, it doesn’t matter that much. We can still call or use Jitsi or even worse case scenerio facetime.
My older family never are going to chat, and I have no problem with that.
The younger family all switched to signal. That was easy.
Why did you push so hard to get family to chat?
Where… where did you get this from? I didn’t push so hard to get my family to chat. In fact, I didn’t push my family to chat. In fact, I wasn’t even the one creating the group, but when most of my family is there already, and I get added to the chat I won’t leave it just because I refuse to. And by the time I had WhatsApp already.
(EDIT: I read back and I kind of understand why you thought so. We got the parents to use same platform once most people were in it already. I didn’t take part in creating the group or choosing the platform, but my siblings and I put some effort in getting our parents to use the same thing, indeed.)
Not out of personal choice. That was the means to communicate at work. I’m glad if it’s not required by your employer, but that was a requirement where I work. It’s like using whatever app/program/tool at work: if that’s what they use for communication (and expect you to do the same), you can’t just say “I won’t partake, everyone can bugger off”.
I’m happy if you have the freedom to pick your own tools for everything, but not everyone can. It doesn’t mean I like it or that I support it.
If I weren’t using an extensively configured Librewolf already and this happened to me, I’d have dropkicked Firefox off my system faster than you could say “sent from Firefox”
Jumped ship after they started pushing AI. They were on Google’s teat for some time… Apparently they moved on to some tech-bros dick.
Of all the things that have pushed me off a browser… This was about the least expected.
That happened to me yesterday. Fucking embarrassing to accidentally spam a work colleague like that.
I certainly didn’t enable that option. Are you sure it was off by default?
Edit: I was enrolled in “Studies”, that one has a study active, for testing the spam. Guess I won’t help with their studies anymore.
Honestly I think that is fine
It is also only for Whatsapp, so specific to a platform with high userbase that doesnt know shit about fuck
I dont even know how a browser determines that, I just copy a link and paste it somewhere
So very low impact feature, I think it is fine
(What is not fine is their new menu redesign, which makes the process objectively slower, adds useless clutter to the view and is less usable with one hand)
high userbase that doesnt know shit about fuck
Succinctly put.
With one hand, heh? ;-)
I am eating carrots with the other one
It’s opt-out.
For now. Like many other features. Its the existence of it in the primary code that’s the problem. They have a plugin system.
For me, it was opt in, turned off by default. Apparently it’s turned on if you opt in to studies, but I definitely never do.
Interesting, I was enrolled in a bunch of stuff on Android, but off on iOS.
(was)
