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Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 244  

AI in Firefox or Waterfox

I just fell on a interesting topic:
Is Mozilla doing enough to avoid AI if not desired?
See the following article:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/18/ … _waterfox/

I decided to test it for a while. What's your take?

golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 3,612  

Re: AI in Firefox or Waterfox

The latest FireFox/ddg update includes options to search with AI. I made that option "disappear" with uBlockOrigin so I wouldn't accidentally click it. Doesn't mean that they won't try to run it without permission. Maybe there is an about:config option to disable it?

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steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

Posts: 558  

Re: AI in Firefox or Waterfox

about:config option to disable it?

For ML in firefox itself, about:config -> browser.ml.enable
What your search engine of choice does is another matter, having nothing at all to do with the browser, because:

FireFox/ddg

Are two separate entities, obviously.

Also, direct comment from firefox dev WRT disabling ML features in future here. Apparently they actually listened for once when we all said "please give us a simple toggle not buried in about:config."

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RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

Posts: 226  

Re: AI in Firefox or Waterfox

I decided to test it for a while. What's your take?

I went with the Waterfox after going on twenty-eight years of use, since the fork from Netscape that later become Firefox, them idiots at Mozilla finally got me to give it up with this latest bunch of BS they pulled. It has been building for years now with all the trash changes they have made but that announcement was the straw that broke the camels back. The Waterfox works great everything just runs like it did except my fonts look much better for some reason, using the same ones too.

Apparently they actually listened for once when we all said "please give us a simple toggle not buried in about:config."

If they had listened they would have heard all the complaints when the first put that garbage into the browser and did bury it in about:config. All that is now is damage control now they have been seriously called out on their scummy behaviour towards us.

HardSun

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Registered: 2025-07-29

Posts: 53  

Re: AI in Firefox or Waterfox

As long as there is an AI kill switch being implemented in firefox for the AI, ill keep using firefox.
I already have AI disabled, atleast i think i have with below user.js settings.

user_pref("browser.ml.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled", false);