{"id":2249,"date":"2026-02-03T00:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/firefox-is-adding-a-switch-to-turn-ai-features-off\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:02:39","slug":"firefox-is-adding-a-switch-to-turn-ai-features-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/firefox-is-adding-a-switch-to-turn-ai-features-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Firefox logo\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Mozilla\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/FX_Design_Blog_Header_1400x770.webp?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Unlike many of the companies stuffing AI into their browsers, Mozilla will soon give you a way to turn all of these features off. An <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/ai-controls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">update coming on February 24th<\/a> will add a new \u00ab\u00a0AI control\u00a0\u00bb option to Firefox&rsquo;s settings menu, allowing you to disable or enable the browser&rsquo;s individual AI features, including access to a built-in AI chatbot, translations, AI tab group suggestions, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Over the past year, Firefox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/714435\/microsoft-edge-copilot-mode-ai-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined Microsoft Edge<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/781192\/chrome-gemini-ai-agentic-update-google-mac-windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Chrome<\/a> in doubling down on AI, with the company rolling out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/774129\/firefox-shake-to-summarize-ios-ai-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new \u00ab\u00a0shake to summarize\u00a0\u00bb feature<\/a> that iPhone users can use to get an AI-powered summary of what they&rsquo;re reading online. Firefox is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/820196\/mozilla-firefox-ai-window-browser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wo \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/872489\/mozilla-firefox-ai-features-off-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many of the companies stuffing AI into their browsers, Mozilla will soon give you a way to turn all [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}