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Firefox Forcing LLM Features - equk's blog (equk.co.uk)
submitted 6 days ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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"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.

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

disable llm & ai related features in firefox.

I'm not going through that. sudo apt -y purge firefox*

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago (5 children)

What do you use instead?

[–] a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] mmmac@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

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

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Delusion6903@discuss.online 2 points 6 days ago

There is something to be said for making modifications instead of forks so you are never waiting for an update.

Here's my 2 cents: https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix

And check the link for feature comparisons.