FYI, I made a similar post with a similar list on Nov 22, two days after the post you screencapped: buc.ci/abucci/p/1763845084.289… .

I received a lot of pushback from people, including a person who claimed to work for Mozilla, the most common being "setting browser.ml.enable to false turns all these off so what's the problem?". This is false, though, besides being dismissive. It's also confusing (obfuscating?) since many of the settings are not in the browser.ml tree at all. Mozilla person suggested filing bug reports, which I found hilarious in that depressing sort of way.

Your list has one configuration option that mine lacked, browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate. My post has a few that the other post lacked, which I found on Stackoverflow and a blog post that I link. In total that makes 17 (!!!) AI-related configuration options in the latest Firefoxen.

Poking around Firefox's config I've found more that seem suspicious:
- browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom
- browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost

Perhaps someone should keep a running list of these somewhere! Here are the 19 options so far:

- browser.aiwindow.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost
- browser.ml.chat.menu
- browser.ml.chat.page
- browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
- browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
- browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom
- browser.ml.chat.sidebar
- browser.ml.enable
- browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
- browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
- browser.ml.smartAssist.enabled
- browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
- extensions.ml.enabled
- sidebar.notification.badge.aichat

Some of these probably are turned off by settings higher up the tree, but it's unclear to me exactly which subset needs to be toggled off to disable the lot of them.

Anthony

2025-11-22 20:58:04

Based on the answers to this StackOverflow question and this blog post, here are the 16 (!!!) AI-related settings in new versions of Firefox that you'll want to disable/set to false, and that might be turned back on with each update:

- browser.aiwindow.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.enabled
- browser.ml.chat.menu
- browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
- browser.ml.chat.page
- browser.ml.chat.shortcuts
- browser.ml.chat.sidebar
- browser.ml.enable
- browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
- browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
- browser.ml.smartAssist.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
- browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
- extensions.ml.enabled
- sidebar.notification.badge.aichat

Enter "about:config" in the browser bar and then search for each of these and disable them, turn them off, or set them to false as appropriate.

Depending on which version of Firefox you have you may not have all these configuration options.

Check your smartphone browsers too!

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