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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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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.