Firefox AI Removal

[krait]

Firefox, my web browser of choice, just updated and dumped a bunch of new "AI features" that are enabled by default.

If you, like me, hate this nonsense, I found this very helpful guide to removing it. It took about one minute, and seems to be working - I no longer see the 'AI link preview' popup window when I hover over a link, for instance.

Please feel free to pass this on!

Comments

[soc_puppet]

Argh, thank you for the heads up =_= I'll be looking into that in a bit.

[krait]

You're welcome! I had no idea about it until I accidentally moved the mouse too slowly over something and an "AI Preview" popped up; Mozilla didn't want to advertise this nonsense, or make it easy to opt out, much less recognise that it should be opt-in. D:<

[soc_puppet]

I had no idea at all until your post, so I'm doubly grateful! I went ahead and shared the link on Tumblr, where it's currently destroying my notes 😂

[krait]

I hope it's destroying your notes in a good way. (You can tell I'm not Tumblr-savvy, can't you.)

[anehan]

Thanks for the link!

[krait]

You're welcome! I'm quite disappointed that Mozilla has decided to dump this on users as an opt-out feature, when it should be opt-in, or better yet not done at all. D:<

[ride_4ever]

Thank you kindly for this info.

(Google just forced their Gemini AI onto my phone.)