After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla’s new CEO that Firefox will evolve into “a modern AI browser,” the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser.
On Tuesday, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo was named the new CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the company behind the beloved Firefox web browser used by almost all GNU/Linux distributions as the default browser.
In his message as new CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo stated that Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software while remaining the company’s anchor, and that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.
What was not made clear is that Firefox will also ship with an AI kill switch that will let users completely disable all the AI features that are included in Firefox. Mozilla shared this important update earlier today to make it clear to everyone that Firefox will still be a trusted web browser.
I don’t think you need to set all to false, all except the first look like granular settings
If you only disable the first one, the points in menu are still there, so I don’t know what exactly does it do but not that. At least it was like that last time I tried to get rid of this annoying shit.
did you restart firefox before checking? most prefs are not checked after start up
Can’t remember, but it worked after I checked off the other ones without restarting.
I might never get around to flipping whatever kill switch they claim to be working on, so I’m turning off as much as I can now