Mozilla forcing llm features and providing no gui for users to disable them

“Mozilla has been adding in llm & ai related features to Firefox for a while, enabling them by default without asking the user… The main problem with this is users are having this forced on them with no gui option to disable these features.”

Article contains instructions for disabling the LLM through about:config.

      • mmmac@lemmy.zip
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I used librewolf and waterfox as well for a bit, until I noticed that were lagging behind on updates.

        Now I just run vanilla Firefox auth arkenfox.js user prefs. Disables everything you’d want out of the box

    • pop [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      17 hours ago

      LibreWolf is an option, but there’s also some curated user.js alternatives for Firefox, like BetterFox.

      I’ve tried LibreWolf, and liked it, but I had to work backwards to get it going and even then, a lot of websites I need to use just don’t work well. For now, I’m just using my own user.js, adding stuff as I go.

    • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
      5·
      19 hours ago

      there’s many forks that have the stuff turned off by default like Librewolf and Floorp

      I personally use Qutebrowser. there’s many better options than straight up Firefox.

      • solrize@lemmy.mlOP
        3·
        19 hours ago

        Thanks everyone. I will look into using Librewolf. I’m still on Firefox because there is a Debian LTS package so it’s the path of least resistance. There doesn’t seem to be a Librewolf package in the standard repo so I’ll have to check a bit further.