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Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 (9to5linux.com)

submitted 2 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Mozilla finally landed today the long-anticipated AI Kill Switch controls for Firefox, which let users strip the open-source web browser of any AI-powered features, and you can test it right now in Firefox Nightly.

In December 2025, when Mozilla appointed its new CEO, the company developing the popular Firefox web browser revealed that it was working on an AI kill switch that would let users completely disable all the AI features that had been included in the past few releases, estranging more and more loyal users.

Now, the AI kill switch is finally a reality as it landed today with the latest Firefox Nightly update. The implementation is called “AI Controls” and can be found in Firefox’s settings as a standalone section. From there, users can toggle a setting called “Block AI Enhancements” to remove any AI features.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've always seen "kill switch" being used in a negative tone, so with how the headline is written, it sounded like some AI feature that could kill the browser itself was implemented.

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 1 points 2 days ago

I mean, Mozilla themselves are calling it that, or at least were

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what's the fedi opinion of ung00g chromium flatpak these days

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

I have it installed to use as backup if I ever need chrome, but I haven't had to use it in like two years so I dunno

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

I'll use it, but I know that doing so will put me on some sort of asshole list and you will fuck me over.

And I'm fine with that DO IT put me in the alligator camp or whatever, I'm done and done

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