{"id":230373,"date":"2026-02-03T01:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/mozilla-announces-switch-to-disable-all-firefox-ai-features"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:29:23","slug":"mozilla-announces-switch-to-disable-all-firefox-ai-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/mozilla-announces-switch-to-disable-all-firefox-ai-features","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla announces switch to disable all Firefox AI features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iD4LspntEmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In response to user feedback on AI integration, Mozilla announced today that the next Firefox release will let users disable AI features entirely or manage them individually.<\/p>\n<p>The new \u201c<strong>Block AI enhancements<\/strong>\u201d toggle will be available in Firefox 148 on February 24 and will help block current and future generative AI features in the desktop browser from a single location. Users will also have the option to enable specific AI tools while keeping others disabled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We\u2019ve also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful. Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/ai-controls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said Firefox head Ajit Varma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to user feedback on AI integration, Mozilla announced today that the next Firefox release will let users disable AI features entirely or manage them individually. The new \u201cBlock AI enhancements\u201d toggle will be available in Firefox 148 on February 24 and will help block current and future generative AI features in the desktop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}