Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
In a short Mastodon post shared via Hacker News, a Firefox web developer clarified an important product stance: Firefox plans to include a single, global option to disable all AI-related features. Internally they’ve been calling it an “AI kill switch” (with a note that the final name will likely be less dramatic), but the core idea is simple — if you don’t want AI features in your browser at all, you shouldn’t have to track down a bunch of separate toggles.
This kind of “one switch” control is notable because AI features tend to spread across surfaces over time (search, suggestions, UI helpers, etc.), and user choice can easily become fragmented. A global opt-out makes the tradeoff explicit and gives privacy- and policy-minded users a straightforward way to keep the browser behavior predictable. If you care about this, the thing to watch is how comprehensive the switch is at launch: does it remove UI entry points, prevent any background calls, and cover future AI features by default?