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How to disable Firefox's battery-draining AI features (piefed.social)
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A few settings you may wish to consider for your firefox's about:config page.

browser.ml.chat.enabled = false  
browser.ml.chat.shortcuts = false  
browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom = false  
browser.ml.chat.sidebar = false  
browser.ml.enable = false  
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled = false
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[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 days ago

I wish Firefox would make AI crap be addons as opposed to built into the browser.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Gets rid of the browser AI, and also gets rid of FireFox ~~spyware~~ telemetry & ads, installs uBlock origin, and generally is the browser we all thought FireFox was supposed to be:

http://librewolf.net/

[–] july@leminal.space 9 points 2 days ago

Yes but it wouldn’t exist without Firefox

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I notice they don't have an android version. Any insight why?

[–] fum@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Closest thing I've found for Android is IronFox https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago

IronFox is nice on Android

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Waterfox supports booth desktop (mac maybe not) and android

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Which are the relevant platform(s) and version here? I don't seem to have the .chat variables.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

With Firefox on Android I only had:

browser.ml.enable = false

Firefox 141.0.3 (Build# 2016106991)

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is great! Now to figure out how to do this by policy. I've been banging my head into so many walls during the past 2 days, trying to figure out if Mozilla has an .admx that will allow me to turn this off for devices via CSP, or via custom OMA-URI.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There used to be an admx, we're using it (to enable Firefox to use system cert store and the like). I hope it's updated quickly after new releases, but I never had an urgent need for that until now. Guess I'm also finding this out on Monday...

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I found this, but I'm still working out the oma-uri stuff. Very much not my forte, but maybe this will help you.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't you disable all this in the settings page?

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't believe so. The very first one is synced with one of the options in the settings menu, but it doesn't look like any of the rest are.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago

Hmm I'm not sure what options these flip under the covers, but disabling both of them appears to be sufficient to disable the features.

[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

I notice my battery has been draining like crazy the past month or so, i wonder if this is it! Thanks for the tip.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what does the .ml. stand for? mozilla?

[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

machine learning, most likely

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

marxist-leninist

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The country code for Mali

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah it was a subtle joke about how people thought that the ML in lemmy.ml was "Marxist-Leninist". It was really because Mali had cheap (free?) domain names for a time. The political beliefs were just a happy coincidence.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

moodle lncident

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Malicious lingerie

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mandatory latex

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe linguine?

[–] don@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Thank you kindly, friend!

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Hell yeah, my man!

[–] echo@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you...

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Am I the only one not seeing the tips?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Running much quicker, ty.