I'm so sick of AI everywhere - it doesn't work
This might be quite "old man yells at cloud" of me, but oh my god I am so fed up of everything putting AI in as a "feature" for no reason.
1) No one asked for this. 2) It is bad at doing whatever it is designed to do. (It's not helpful, it's not even neutrally unhelpful, it's ANTI-HELPFUL.) 3) It is always on by default, or worse, impossible to turn off.
At the very least AI features need to be off by default, because it's rubbish.
Firefox is meant to be a bastion of sanity and safety in a world of exploitative techbros trying to steal our data and trick us into making money for them. So-called "AI" goes against this. Please, Firefox, be better.
As of 20th Nov 2025, here's how to turn off AI features. Go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you’ll have to copy and paste them one by one):
- browser.ml.enable
- browser.ml.chat.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.menu
- browser.ml.chat.page
- browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
- browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
- browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
- extensions.ml.enabled
- browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
in addition to nuking AI, it’ll also speed up your browsing
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This isn't old man tells at cloud of you, it's incredibly valid and scary!!! Thank you for posting this.
zrmakila said
This isn't old man tells at cloud of you, it's incredibly valid and scary!!! Thank you for posting this.
Thank you, I appreciate you saying so. :)
Fingers crossed they don't need to be disabled after every update. But honestly with the news from the Firefox CEO that they'll make Firefox into an AI browser, I'll find greener pastures elsewhere. Its just too bad, I've been using Firefox since essentially day 1. I remember being told by someone who worked in IT that "Its so much better than Internet Explorer and fixes everything" and back then, it did. Now, its just another browser following a trend in a race to the bottom.
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