A modern AI browser

> AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.

And I think doing that correctly is surprisingly simple, we've just gotten used to not seeing it. It needs three things:

(1) Make each individual AI feature optional.
(2) Have a single settings page to control these features, with a button to turn everything off at once if you so desire.
(3) Most importantly: Have a setting to control whether newly-added features are on or off when they are added.

Firefox, like many other pieces of modern software is actually still pretty good at (1), making everything optional. The big problem we see today is the lack of (3): you're forced to update your software Because Security™* and then new features that you didn't want get added and enabled by default and that's what makes the whole experience terrible. _If only_ those people who don't like change (like me) can just set one setting to say "keep all new features disabled until I explicitly turn them on" and have this take effect forever, there'd be a lot fewer moans about updates. As it stands, it's a constant game of whack-a-mole.

Actually, I've just realised this isn't even about AI, this is just about user experience around feature updates in general.

*standard caveat: of course by this I am not suggesting that you don't need updates to stay secure, just pointing out that corporates use "you need security updates" as an excuse to shove features you don't like down your throat at the same time.