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.

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    6 days ago

    And even if you enable it, it should work with local LLMs. And at least from the article it doesn’t appear to be the case.

    …and sidebar access to chatbots (including Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Le Chat Mistral).

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      6 days ago

      The sidebar chatbots is something you have to explicitly interact with, so no it’s not using remote LLMs without your input. Every other feature is local.

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        6 days ago

        I know it’s not using them without my input, what I’m saying is that there should be a local option.

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          A local option with enough sophistication to impress anyone would have terrible performance on the vast majority of PCs and laymen would takeaway a bad impression without understanding why

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            5 days ago

            A laymen won’t be able to point Firefox at their local LLM installation that they don’t have, to be able to have any impression.