- Mozilla Firefox 148 will soon get an AI kill switch
- This addon can disable all AI features at once
- You will also be able to disable AI tools individually if you want
Firefox is often chosen by people who don’t like the direction Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers are taking. And as browser makers rush to fill their products with as much artificial intelligence (AI) as possible, Firefox is taking a different tack, introducing an “AI kill switch” that disables all AI features in the Mozilla app.
In a blog post about the decision, Mozilla says users will get the feature with the Firefox 148 update, which is set to arrive on February 24. Not only will this let you manage individual AI features in the browser, but you’ll also be able to turn them off completely with a single click.
Apart from the all-in-one kill switch, you’ll be able to choose whether to enable or disable the following features: translations, alt-text in PDFs, AI-powered tab grouping, link previews, and the AI chatbot located in the browser’s sidebar.
Mozilla caused something of a backlash in late 2025 when it announced that it would bring AI capabilities to the Firefox browser. Although these run on your device – meaning your information isn’t sent to any company’s cloud servers – many users were unhappy with the advent of AI features in a browser like Firefox, which has often tried to differentiate itself from competing offerings.
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Mozilla’s latest move seems to have met with a positive response from some parts of the internet. In response to the announcement on Reddit, user jpsreddit85 said: “Says a lot about the future state of AI when the most requested feature is to disable it.” User David-J, meanwhile, commented that “Someone is actually reading the space.”
As a long-time Firefox user, this feels like the right move by Mozilla. AI is controversial at the best of times, but especially among Firefox users, who pride themselves on their independence and generally seem less on board with AI than many internet users.
Adding AI to Firefox was always going to be a risky move by Mozilla, given the sentiment of the user base – adding a way to block it entirely is a sensible way to win back support.
That said, this seems to be a fairly isolated feature in the web browser world. Chrome has a near-monopoly on browsers, and its creator, Google, a major AI investor, has added several AI features to the app. Microsoft and Apple, makers of Edge and Safari, are equally committed to artificial intelligence.
Very few browsers have added an AI kill switch like Firefox, although privacy-focused alternatives like Brave and DuckDuckGo can also be customized this way. All of this means that if you’re tired of AI in your browser, there are options for you – you just have to avoid the biggest players.
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