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Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery (neowin.net)
28 points by bbarnett 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


When I rebased all of Waterfox’s changes onto the latest ESR branch, disabling AI features was my top priority. I only kept translations, and even that’s opt-in. I think most Firefox features, especially anything AI-related, should be opt-in by default. This feels like part of a broader shift in software expectations - when applications start acting autonomously, users should know exactly what’s happening and explicitly consent to that behavior.


For the mitigation in about:config, find:

  - browser.ml.chat.enabled and set it to false.

  - browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled and set it to false.




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