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What the FUCK is this, firefox?

I had explicitly disabled this shit in firefox labs.

No, this is not an extension adding this (I checked), it seems this is now built-in to firefox.

highlighted text in firefox, with a popup containing the following items: - Summarize - Explain this - Quiz me - proofread - [chatbot]Ask Le Chat Mistral...[/end chatbox] - Hide chatbot shortcut
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A screenshot of a computer screen displays a portion of text and a pop-up menu. The text on the screen includes phrases such as "use the midterm test in option (A) contrib," "Absence form" cannot be used as a valid," "grading on," "TE THAT," "% FINAL," "pics," "stems of L," "aussian Elin," and "atrices and Matriy Operations." A dark, rectangular menu is overlaid on the text, offering options such as "Summarize," "Explain this," "Quiz me," "Proofread," "Ask Le Chat Mistral..." and "Hide chatbot shortcut."

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This has been enabled by default in firefox.
This was just enabled after updating to the latest firefox nightly version in the arch repos.
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cc @BrodieOnLinux have you seen this shit yet? afaik you haven't made a video on this, so I wanted to let you know about it
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disable browser.ml.enable in about:config if you haven't already. that saves me from all the ai headaches


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2025-02-20 17:27:57

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disable browser.ml.enable in about:config if you haven't already. that saves me from all the ai headaches

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from what I can tell, there is no way to disable this, aside from about:config. (no, "Hide chatbot shortcut" does not count. I want it nuked from orbit.)
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nvm, that about:config setting does not remove it
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alright, after some digging I've figured out how to remove it.

set the following options to false:

  • browser.ml.chat.enabled
  • browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
  • browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom
  • browser.ml.chat.sidebar
  • browser.ml.enable

(most likely only the first one is needed, but I'm setting them all to false anyways)

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disable browser.ml.enable in about:config if you haven't already. that saves me from all the ai headaches
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Hm. Saw that in some blog post at some point and just set the setting before I even updated to a version which had that setting or AI. I'm running LibreWolf and they seem to remove any AI outright.
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@jeremystartm I figured out how to disable it: tech.lgbt/@solonovamax/1140374…

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2025-02-20 17:43:11

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alright, after some digging I've figured out how to remove it.

set the following options to false:

  • browser.ml.chat.enabled
  • browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
  • browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom
  • browser.ml.chat.sidebar
  • browser.ml.enable

(most likely only the first one is needed, but I'm setting them all to false anyways)


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librewolf, fennec fdroid, etc
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@Jessica @LucyG yeah, this shit is the last fucking straw for me, I'm going to do the librewolf switch at some point soon
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I mean at the same time the point of nightly is to dogfood new features even if they don't end up using them or disable by default 🤔
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@Jessica @LucyG idc, they should have left it disabled by default or at the very least given me a popup when I launched the browser saying "we're trying out a new AI thing, do you want to enable it?"
yes, said popup would have annoyed me, but it wouldn't have completely pissed me off like this has
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that's fair.
I end up using betterfox on new installs anyways so I don't really see a lot of the new garbo
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@Jessica @LucyG I'm using some random ass firefox profile I set up a long time ago that was probably roughly based off of betterfox, though I haven't updated it in quite some time lol
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@JessiCum I just updated a few minutes ago and got this, I'm on the latest nightly version in the arch repos
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