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AI in Firefox (piefed.social)
submitted 16 hours ago by Alex_Mihalchuk@piefed.social to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Six months ago, Firefox users were outraged by the new Mozilla management's attempt to install AI by default, which couldn't be disabled in the settings. This could only be done through a special procedure. Mozilla eventually created a dedicated tab in the settings where AI could be disabled. But today, I discovered that this tab has disappeared again in the new version. I offer Firefox users a procedure to disable AI.

Disable the integrated AI chatbot in Firefox

8.1. Firefox features an integrated AI chatbot. By default, it's turned on. This might negatively affect both your privacy and the performance (speed) of Firefox.

Thankfully, it's rather easy to disable this feature. Like this:

a. Type in the URL bar of Firefox:

about:config

Press Enter.

b. Now you're being presented with a warning. Ignore it and click on the blue button "Accept the Risk and Continue".

c. Copy/paste the following search term into the configuration search box:

browser.ml.

d. Find the following entry: browser.ml.chat.enabled
That's currently set to the boolean value true. Double-click on it, so that it changes into false.

Do the same for the entry: browser.ml.enable

e. Close Firefox and re-launch it.

https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/speed-mint.html#ID8.1

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[โ€“] shadedmagus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I'll have to disagree with the Zen option. I got frustrated when they started removing settings for features I was using a year or so ago, and the community is prickly. I went back to Firefox when they finally made vertical tabs available.

I guess I'll have to look into Waterfox or Phoenix now if Mozilla is bent on fully integrating AI. I'm already considering Kagi for search since DuckDuckGo is following the AI wild goose.

[โ€“] foxymochakitten@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

I've been looking into alternative search engines... Kagi seemed like a good option at first but it has its own AI "assistant" and its hella expensive anyway. Ecosia sucks. Currently testing out Brave which at least doesn't dump AI summaries on me.