Flip the switch.
We may not have a killswitch for AI as a whole, but Mozilla is giving users the ability to shut off AI in its Firefox browser (though it could have just not included those features in the first place). In a blog post, the company announced that it will include a toggle in the next version of Firefox that will turn off AI functionality. The feature will be available in Firefox 148, set to be released on February 24.
The feature will be accessible in the desktop browser settings, and will give users the ability to turn the lights out on all AI rather than granularly control which AI tools they are okay with. A toggle will be made available that, when turned on, will “block AI enhancements” that have been introduced by Mozilla, including things like AI translations, tab grouping recommendations, and in-browser AI chatbots (Firefox currently supports Anthropic’s Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Le Chat Mistral).
