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AI controls is coming to Firefox
(blog.mozilla.org)
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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That's all well and good that they give you the ability to turn it off. What's not changing though is that most of their focus will be on integrating AI which most people don't want. As a result the pace of other new features being tested/implemented will probably slow significantly.
Plus, even if you can turn it off, the feature is still in the code, needing updates, etc., even if you don't ever use it. Literal bloat.
At least these features won't introduce any novel security holes! /s
HDR never, woo...
I've already moved several family members away from Chrome, Firefox etc
Waterfox, while sharing a basic codebase, doesn't have any of this bullshit and runs like a dream.
Also we have all seen this movie before. They launch with promises of having a choice to turn it on or off… until it’s no longer a choice.
When did Firefox take away a choice that was previously offered?
The "open image in new tab" context menu option, off the top of my head, it has been 1000 small things with them, no 1 outrageous removal, but tons of them that didnt make big impacts yet still annoyed people who used them.
Edit: It was actually "View Image", "Open Image in New Tab" was the alternative that remained. It was removed in v88
Bugtracker Link
All the freaking time?
A lot of these are extensions that are folded into the main Firefox feature set, experimental features or not even related to the browser?
Pocket's dead now.
Like another user said, where's "open image in new tab"? (I notice you didn't reply to them.)
Remember XUL extensions and real browser themes?
Remember when you didn't need a developer account to make extensions and you could distribute them via your own website?
But of course, Firefox never takes away choices that were previously offered.
Didn't people generally hate pocket's forced integration? Anyways I've never said that they've never removed features nor was disagreeing that what you said isn't generally true. It's just that the list posted has a lot of examples that aren't exactly a removal of a Firefox feature which hurts the argument being made. There's more than enough reasons as you mentions to make a case for it.
I don't see where's the relevance in pointing out that I didn't reply to another user's post when I'm in agreement with them.
Relax man, let's have a civil discussion that doesn't devolve into sarcasm.
Pocket was originally an extension before Mozilla forced integration and bloated it into something it wasn't. The "something it wasn't" part, Stories, is still Firefox bloatware but without the Pocket label.
To be fair, their reduced focus and the potential pace improvement through LLM assisted coding might cancel each other out. I wouldn't be surprized if the resulting pace change is net zero or better.
That said: I like Firefox local translations, but haven't found a use case for its other AI features yet.
Have we actually seen any evidence that LLM's increase the pace of coding? Because in most of the reports I've seen there is no measurable difference even when users feel like they're faster
There are some concerns but yes, development generally accelerates: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03156
So they AI summarized other people's work.
And later acknowledge there are major gaps in methodology. I wouldn't be linking to this as proof of accelerated dev imho.
They meant with the cleaning up after it.
What features do you still need after 22 years of development?
HDR, hardware accelerated/parallelized layout/browser engine (servo)