A modern AI browser [LWN.net]

A modern AI browser

Posted Dec 19, 2025 17:26 UTC (Fri) by burki99 (subscriber, #17149)
In reply to: A modern AI browser by denials
Parent article: Mozilla gets a new CEO: Anthony Enzor-DeMeo

concerning disabling it, see the following Mastodon post:

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.

We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782

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A modern AI browser

Posted Dec 22, 2025 8:35 UTC (Mon) by rrolls (subscriber, #151126) [Link] (1 responses)

Following your link, I think it's important to highlight the very next post too:

> All AI features will also be opt-in. I think there are some grey areas in what 'opt-in' means to different people (e.g. is a new toolbar button opt-in?), but the kill switch will absolutely remove all that stuff, and never show it in future. That's unambiguous.

Speaking genuinely, not sarcastically: both of these posts are really good news and, I'm sure, incredibly important to a lot of people.

My main question now is: why wasn't this publicised more widely and clearly in the first place? That would have been genuinely good PR for Firefox - something which it hasn't gotten much of for years.

A modern AI browser

Posted Dec 25, 2025 11:08 UTC (Thu) by davidgerard (guest, #100304) [Link]

Because that thread was a PR disaster response to the backlash against the CEO's comments about making Firefox an "AI browser."