Melissa, Baroness of NonsuchDec 4

Hey, Firefox - go fuck yourself. If I wanted to use Perplexity as a search engine in your browser (I don’t) I would’ve added it myself. You didn’t need to add it, enable it by default, and make me have to go figure out what this new random button in my search bar is. AI, like most new unproven tech, should be informed opt-in, not forcibly opt-out.

Assholes.

Show threadSeán Fenian
@izzyamar The Register has had a number of articles over the last six months about how utterly disconnected the Mozilla Foundation's leadership has become from Firefox's actual userbase. El Reg used the word "rudderless" more than once.

Mozilla's "leaders" don't seem to understand that if they eliminate from Firefox all of the reasons that people use it, people will no longer have any reason to use it.
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Show threadSeán FenianDec 4
@izzyamar Afterthought: I saw a post just the other day listing all of the about:config options to set false to both speed up Firefox browsing AND disable all current 'AI' features. But I can't find it again now.

A good start is to go into about:config, put browser.ml in the search bar, and toggle EVERY browser.ml.*.enabled option that comes up to false, plus every true/false option ('.enabled' or otherwise) under browser.ml.chat.
Show threadJ. R. DePriest    :EA DATA. SF:Dec 4

@zakalwe @izzyamar
I didn't save the alt text, but I did save the image. I can't alt text this from my phone.

Edit: got out my laptop, here is the text.

A social network post from nckitterick from 20 November.

irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026 [sic]), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and past them one by one):

  • 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

in addition to nuking AI, it'll also speed up your browsing

Show threadDaniel BlakeDec 4
@zakalwe @izzyamar This one https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115649931911132896
David Gerard (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image 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

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Show threadCassandrichDec 4
@zakalwe @izzyamar Mozilla leadership have *always* been scummy dotcom era bros hostile to the mission. The people doing the real work manage to do that despite them, and are heroes. Firefox needs to be taken away from Mozilla.