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How to disable Firefox's battery-draining AI features (piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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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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[-] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 10 points 1 year ago

Yes but it wouldn’t exist without Firefox

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] fum@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

IronFox is nice on Android

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Waterfox supports booth desktop (mac maybe not) and android

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