anecdotal reports are that this makes Firefox noticeably faster

that list of settings to disable:

browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.menu
browser.ml.chat.page
browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

@davidgerard no intention to judge, just curious - this looks like a screenshot from fedi, why did you share a screenshot instead of boosting it?
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💬 274  🔁 59806  ❤️ 65158 · irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2025), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll h…

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@fleaz @sijmen @davidgerard wild tangent: wasn’t tumblr supporting activitypub?
@yetzt @fleaz @sijmen @davidgerard They said they're planning on it like two years ago? Haven't heard anything about that since.
@samerion @yetzt @fleaz @sijmen yeah, photo matt lost interest and it never went anywhere
@fleaz @davidgerard oh, my bad. didn't know the many different verified icons aren't just a fedi thing
@sijmen @fleaz @davidgerard To be fair; Tumblr can be a bit of a ... ... ... Jumblr