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Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs
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this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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And their telemetry metrics will tell them people overwhelmingly keep the switch on.
Because the vast majority don't read release notes these days?
I have enough trouble keeping with the IRL release notes of how my democracy is falling apart. Forger checking them on my browser.
Because the people who turn off the AI are the same people who turn off telemetry
You don't have to read the release notes. It literally puts it front and center in your face the first time you launch it after this update is applied.
People overwhelmingly kept autosave off. People just don’t like changing settings. I’m hoping Mozilla knows this.
EDIT: Typo
Because OOBE is better than tinkering. Normies will stay on OOBE. We either tinker or move to another project.
Interesting read, thanks.
The only one I turned off was the sidebar, because that’s kinda dumb. The rest seem semi useful.
Left translate on. Everything else off. That’s one of my main use cases for AI. As long as it gets me close, whatever.
Same.
And also neither cloud-based nor LLMs