I updated to Firefox 145.0 and you know what it did, it switched all the browser.ml.* stuff on again!
go check yours
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@davidgerard Thanks for the heads up - I should have thought to check it on my Windows machine because yup, it was active again.
Use your distro's version of Firefox and have your distro "repair" Mozilla products before adding them to repositories.
No AI.
@davidgerard
Yes it did.
And added back Google & Perplexity search.
@davidgerard I hope librewolf devs will manage it
I updated to Firefox 145.0 and you know what it did, it switched all the browser.ml.* stuff on again!
go check yours
No need, I am using Librewolf, Latest firefox done right. AI is OFF by default.
There are discussions ongoing about completely removing as much of the AI enablement code as possible.
@davidgerard also had this happen a week or two ago with nightly
@davidgerard it made me use perplexity instead of duck duck bing I had set.
After seeing announcements of AI features being integrated, I stopped updating Firefox.
(Looks like I'll soon try LibreWolf as a potential replacement.)
@davidgerard I wonder how hard it would be to write a plug in that requests a slightly misspelled Loren Ipsum and a random typeface from the ai at whatever frequency they will allow without charging you. Try to run the AI company out of resources faster than the planet runs out of resources.
@davidgerard
There are a lot more than I remember from the last time I shut 'em off. Is there a list somewhere of what to disable? (I'm going to go look, but search sucks nowadays).
Looks like this link has a decent list: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1556081/how-to-disable-all-the-ai-features-in-firefox-to-increase-performance
@davidgerard out of curiosity, where do you install/update your Firefox binary from?
FWIW I get mine from the Fedora rpm repo (not flatpack) and so far it's not pulled that sort of shit on me *knocks on wood*
@davidgerard hopefully servo will save us soon
@davidgerard I got an android update yesterday that reinstalled gemini.
Which I'd previously fully purged via the adb console.
>:[
@davidgerard what is this shit ?
@davidgerard I totally blame it all on @pluralistic
@davidgerard
Mine are still disabled.
I use Pop_OS so in ‘about:preferences’ it says “Your browser is being managed by your organization”, ie, the apt package manager. Maybe that saved me?
@steve_zeke @davidgerard That basically means that you have a "/etc/firefox/policies/policies.json" file which is essentially the enterprise way of configuring Firefox. You can enter "about:policies" in the url bar for a detailed listing of your current effective policies and links to the full documentation.
@steve_zeke @davidgerard Most likely this is just used to turn off automatic updates (since you'll get your updates through apt instead) but I guess if there is a policy in place Mozilla might be a hair more hesitant to touch other settings too since it would risk upsetting some big players...
@davidgerard Yep! Firefox is making it really hard to keep supporting if they are going to keep doing this shit.
@davidgerard mine didn't. I wonder what's different? Mine is on Linux, from official repo (not Ubuntu's flatpak)