“Mozilla has been adding in llm & ai related features to Firefox for a while, enabling them by default without asking the user… The main problem with this is users are having this forced on them with no gui option to disable these features.”
Article contains instructions for disabling the LLM through about:config.
I would think most non technical users would just use a different browser.
Not only them. I’m tired boss.
disable llm & ai related features in firefox.
I’m not going through that. sudo apt -y purge firefox*
What do you use instead?
Not the gp but I started using LibreWolf last year after my camel’s back was broken by Mozilla Corp shenanigans, I am very grateful for it
Unfortunately, at the moment, we can’t trust Mozilla and by extension with AI items so these things were removed.
https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/1919#issuecomment-4988409
I used librewolf and waterfox as well for a bit, until I noticed that were lagging behind on updates.
Now I just run vanilla Firefox auth arkenfox.js user prefs. Disables everything you’d want out of the box
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there’s many forks that have the stuff turned off by default like Librewolf and Floorp
I personally use Qutebrowser. there’s many better options than straight up Firefox.
Thanks everyone. I will look into using Librewolf. I’m still on Firefox because there is a Debian LTS package so it’s the path of least resistance. There doesn’t seem to be a Librewolf package in the standard repo so I’ll have to check a bit further.
For those that don’t mind local AI, there’s a setting that uses localhost:8080 as ai endpoint. You can throw open-webui, or ollama/others at that port.
Well, you don’t have to use them. So they can’t force you to use Ai features.
Kind of the opposite of forcing. Some people want it, I don’t agree with them, but better to not lose them to chrome.
But srsly Firefox nags me more about PWAs and tab groups than AI.
