News [OMG! Ubuntu] You’ll finally be able to turn off Firefox’s AI features

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You will be able to disable AI features in Firefox 148, Mozilla has announced. The next major update of the web browser, scheduled for release in late February, will offer an AI feature kill-switch in its new AI Controls panel. You can turn off Firefox’s AI features at a granular level. If you want to use some features, like on-device translations, but not others, like Google Lens image search, you can: If you don’t want any AI features in Firefox at all, a single ‘Block AI enhancements’ toggle acts as a kill-switch. But notice the framing here: you’re not ‘disabling […]

Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/firefox-148-disable-ai-features

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