Firefox users report high CPU and memory usage in the latest release, caused by browser’s on-device AI inferencing for its ‘smart tab grouping’ feature.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/firefox-high-cpu-usage-inference-disable
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nope. literally says “Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups” and the slider was activated and I flipped it to off. Never saw a download but when it updates firefox either has to be closed or it restarts.
Weird, I don’t even see a slider! Perhaps we’re in different testing groups or something.
im on linux and using what I think is bog standard firefox with a few addons.
Same! But I think people are just randomly sorted in buckets to see how some experiments land.
I am on an lts kernel (ubuntu) to. not sure if that would make a difference.
I doubt it, but yeah - Fedora Silverblue here, who knows.