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We believe an open web starts with choice. That includes AI models. We’re excited to be partnering with Mistral to bring open-source AI to Firefox Smart Window beta and expand access to France, with French-language support.

blog.mozilla.orgMozilla and Mistral partner to expand AI competition, user choice | The Mozilla BlogThe AI race is shifting. Again. Practically overnight, competition has expanded from “which AI model is best?” to a new high-stakes battle over which m

This is a fully optional experience that you have to turn on yourself and is separate from your regular browsing. In fact, you don't have to use AI features in Firefox period. You can choose to enable or block features entirely in Settings > AI Controls.

I would prefer to use a browser which lacks the option to turn AI features on. If there's an option to enable AI features, I'll be constantly afraid it's been switched on by "accident". (This isn't a hypothetical concern; it happened to me with VS Code *all the time*, until I stopped using it.)

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I turned all the AI shit off in the desktop Chrome web browser... and somehow it's still turned on in a bunch of places like in the location/search/omnibox and in the developer tools/inspector/javascript console, despite these dozens of "features" being set to 'Disabled' in chrome://flags/