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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

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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 1 year 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.

[-] codenamekino@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 year ago

With Firefox on Android I only had:

browser.ml.enable = false

Firefox 141.0.3 (Build# 2016106991)

[-] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

what does the .ml. stand for? mozilla?

[-] chrash0@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

machine learning, most likely

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

marxist-leninist

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The country code for Mali

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

moodle lncident

[-] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Malicious lingerie

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Mandatory latex

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 3 points 1 year 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.

[-] don@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you kindly, friend!

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah, my man!

[-] echo@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you...

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Am I the only one not seeing the tips?

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Running much quicker, ty.

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