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Firefox Sidebar Includes AI Chatbot Now
(lemmy.world)
Super frustrating the AI Chatbots are infecting my Firefox browser now. It looks like malware and pretty much acts like it since it cannot be disabled from the sidebar outside of closing this window. I like vertical tabs, but they require so many other options by default. Even more frustrating that the URL goes to a chrome browser link: chrome://browser/content/genai/chat.html
Alarms very heightened.
Been there for a while, look into disabling it via about:config, I'm sure it's somewhere in there
edit: it's called
browser.ml.chat.sidebar, or if you want a more futureproof solution, this reddit comment explains how to do it.That only disables the shortcuts. Been there already but good for folks that have not seen it yet.
about:config has all of these set for me. I don't see anything AI related, but I also use sidebery for tabs/sidebar
browser.ml.chat.enabled falsebrowser.ml.chat.shortcuts falsebrowser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom falsebrowser.ml.chat.sidebar falsebrowser.ml.enable falseextensions.ml.enabled falseextensions.ui.mlmodel.hidden trueThe ml stands for machine learning, I think.
Lol yeah, I meant I don't have the AI junk in firefox's ui using those settings. Even that chat selection 'chrome' page is essentially blank other than a model selector. I don't know if it usually has anything else, but it's as local/internal as about:config and the like.