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Firefox introduced AI chatbot, AI powered link preview, and search images with Google Lens etc AI powered features in the past releases.<\/p>\n
According to the Firefox Privacy Notice<\/a>, it does NOT have access to the AI conversations or what user input, but do collect technical and interaction data, such as how often a chatbot provider or suggested prompts are used, and the length of selected text.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n UPDATE: Firefox since 148.0 has added AI Control options in its Settings page!<\/b><\/p>\n AI chatbot in Firefox sidebar<\/p><\/div>\n If you don’t like the AI chatbot feature, you can hide them from side-bar settings page, or remove the shortcut from the context menu of a text selection.<\/p>\n Hide AI chatbot<\/p><\/div>\n While, in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to disable them so that they will disappear along with the settings option, link preview, and image search with Google Lens.<\/p>\n No AI chatbot, no configure options, and no Google Lens image search<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n NOTE: This tutorial is tested in Ubuntu 24.04 with Firefox 145. As time go on, Firefox will release new versions and may add, remove, or change the AI related preference keys.<\/b><\/p>\n For current profile only, type about:config<\/b> in address bar and hit Enter, then click the blue “Accept the Risk and Continue” button to access the advanced configuration page.<\/p>\n Next, search following preference names and set them to “false”<\/b> one by one:<\/p>\n And, it should apply the changes immediately after you set them all to false.<\/p>\n If you have multiple user profiles for Firefox, and you want to disable AI for them all, then it’s better to add user.js<\/b> config file instead of configuring the preference keys one by one.<\/p>\n First, type about:profiles<\/b> in address bar and hit Enter to access the profile management page.<\/p>\n Then, click “Open Directory” button to open the Root Directory of the target user profile.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/firefox-ai-700x455.webp\")
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<\/a>Option 1: Disable AI LLM through about:config<\/h3>\n
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browser.ml.enable<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.ml.chat.enabled<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.ml.chat.menu<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.ml.chat.page<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.ml.linkPreview.enabled<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.ml.pageAssist.enabled<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled<\/code><\/li>\nextensions.ml.enabled<\/code><\/li>\nbrowser.search.visualSearch.featureGate<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/firefox-disableai-700x373.webp\")
<\/a><\/p>\nOption 2: Add configuration file to disable AI features<\/h3>\n
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