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Screenshot of Firefox’s settings, highlighting a section called “AI Controls”. There is a single top-level switch to “Block AI enhancements”, as well as a series of settings to enable or disable individual “On-device AI” features like translations, image alt text in Firefox PDF view, tab group suggestions, and summarized link previews. There is also a setting to enable “AI chatbot providers in sidebar.” In the screenshot, all of these settings are set to “blocked.”

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Screenshot of Firefox’s settings, highlighting a section called “AI Controls”. There is a single top-level switch to “Block AI enhancements”, as well as a series of settings to enable or disable individual “On-device AI” features like translations, image alt text in Firefox PDF view, tab group suggestions, and summarized link previews. There is also a setting to enable “AI chatbot providers in sidebar.” In the screenshot, all of these settings are set to “blocked.”
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Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Feb-2026 04:10:44 JST Ethan Marcotte

Just want to raise up the design of this “AI kill switch” in Firefox, and say how much I like it: it’s a top-level preference, and the design and content are both *very* clear in communicating the different levels at which you’re making decisions.
I would *love* to see more product companies roll out something like this for their en-LLM’d features.

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