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Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs
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this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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Ssshhh don't say that too loud or the "no one wanted this" crowd may hear you. They would be very scared if they could read.
In the original announcement that they added translation, they didn't call it AI. They didn't even call it machine "learning" or machine translation there.
They just called it local, automated translation.
Maybe you should take your own advice about reading, and double-check my comment ;)
When I turned it off the translation thingy went away, so I'm not sure if it was AI all along and they were lying about it or not. Just as well, there's an extension that works fine and it doesn't reload the page every time I toggled it like the built in one did.
The translation is technically AI, but it's a distant cousin from the LLMs and image generators that have repulsed so many people. And, notably, this is from before AI became marketing hype.
It also produces a joint non-profit venture with a university, rather than today's weird gimmicks or for-profit partnerships.