Question Firefox 144.0 released 10-14-2025.

[balloonshark]

Firefox 144.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

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Even more changes to tabs. Other feature are part of a progressive rollout. I really hope we can remove these two "features".

Visual search powered by Google Lens


With just a right-click on any image, you can now:
✨ Find similar products, places, or objects
✨ Copy, translate, or search text from images
✨ Get inspiration for learning, travel, or shopping


Look for the new “Search Image with Google Lens” option in your right-click menu (highlighted with a NEW badge at first).
This is a desktop-only feature, rolling out worldwide. Your default search engine must be set to Google in order to use it.

Perplexity AI Search in Firefox
On desktop, Firefox now includes Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine built into the browser. Perplexity delivers direct, conversational answers to complex questions, helping you get quick summaries, accurate references, or creative inspiration without digging through multiple sources. It’s rolling out worldwide from the address bar via the unified search button.

 

[lxskllr]

Got me to look. I'm on 140esr, and I had removed every search engine but duckduckgo. Somewhere along the line, perplexity had been added. It's now been removed. In the unlikely event ddg is down(I think it happened once), I just go to an alternative engine start page.

If you don't want those features, just remove them in settings.

 

[KMFJD]

Disable AI In Firefox

Quick reference for how to turn off AI features in Firefox

flamedfury.com

about:config

search for browser.ml.enable and turn that shit off

 

[Steltek]

Disable AI In Firefox

Quick reference for how to turn off AI features in Firefox

flamedfury.com

about:config

search for browser.ml.enable and turn that shit off

I can tell you from personal experience that setting alone doesn't get rid of all of it. I was still getting AI chatbot crap a few days ago on Firefox on my Linux Mint install even with that setting already disabled.

After some research in the Ubuntu forums, I ended up having to dig into the about:config files for Firefox and set all the following settings to False to finally make it just go away:

• browser.ml.enable
• browser.ml.chat.enabled
• browser.ml.chat.page
• browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
• browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
• browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
• extensions.ml.enabled
• sidebar.notification.badge.aichat

While I haven't had any further issues since then, I'm still not convinced that I got everything.

 

[lxskllr]

I can tell you from personal experience that setting alone doesn't get rid of all of it. I was still getting AI chatbot crap a few days ago on Firefox on my Linux Mint install even with that setting already disabled.

After some research in the Ubuntu forums, I ended up having to dig into the about:config files for Firefox and set all the following settings to False to finally make it just go away:

• browser.ml.enable
• browser.ml.chat.enabled
• browser.ml.chat.page
• browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
• browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
• browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
• extensions.ml.enabled
• sidebar.notification.badge.aichat

While I haven't had any further issues since then, I'm still not convinced that I got everything.

That seems about right. I've glanced over other guides, and there was a list of stuff to disable. I haven't had to do it yet cause my fox is old, so I didn't pay super close attention. Looks like a search of ".ml" and ".ai" would get everything.

edit:
Ok, I just looked, and I have all ai stuff turned on in about:config, yet I've never seen ai anything. How come I'm different?

edit2:
This field was blank. Maybe that's why? browser.ml.chat.provider

 

[KMFJD]

I can tell you from personal experience that setting alone doesn't get rid of all of it. I was still getting AI chatbot crap a few days ago on Firefox on my Linux Mint install even with that setting already disabled.

After some research in the Ubuntu forums, I ended up having to dig into the about:config files for Firefox and set all the following settings to False to finally make it just go away:

• browser.ml.enable
• browser.ml.chat.enabled
• browser.ml.chat.page
• browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
• browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
• browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
• extensions.ml.enabled
• sidebar.notification.badge.aichat

While I haven't had any further issues since then, I'm still not convinced that I got everything.

hopefully that turns this shit off

 

[mikeymikec]

I haven't seen anything AI-ish in Mint Firefox 144.x either.

Purely out of curiosity, I decided to play around with Microsoft Edge to see whether I could disable Copilot completely. There's no option in Settings to do so, so I disabled every single Copilot setting in edge://flags. Copilot still works. I'm not surprised really.

 

[Steltek]

I haven't seen anything AI-ish in Mint Firefox 144.x either.

Purely out of curiosity, I decided to play around with Microsoft Edge to see whether I could disable Copilot completely. There's no option in Settings to do so, so I disabled every single Copilot setting in edge://flags. Copilot still works. I'm not surprised really.

I didn't either, until that fracking chatbot was just suddenly there on Firefox 144.0.2 in Linux Mint. It was right after the most recent Firefox update installed.

Regarding Edge, you really didn't think Microsoft would make it that easy did you? They spent a lot of money (and wrote an entire new Windows OS to boot) to ensure their unimpeded ability to be able to datamine everyone's arse at will.

The only thing missing is the "all your base are belong to us" message.

 

[mikeymikec]

I didn't either, until that fracking chatbot was just suddenly there on Firefox 144.0.2 in Linux Mint. It was right after the most recent Firefox update installed.

I've just updated FF, I'll see what happens!

Regarding Edge, you really didn't think Microsoft would make it that easy did you? They spent a lot of money (and wrote an entire new Windows OS to boot) to ensure their unimpeded ability to be able to datamine everyone's arse at will.

The only thing missing is the "all your base are belong to us" message.

The thing is, I assumed that it wouldn't be possible to disable it, though the fact of the matter is that the Copilot crap can be disabled in every other MS product I've encountered lately so logically it should be possible to disable it in Edge too.

 

[WelshBloke]

I didn't either, until that fracking chatbot was just suddenly there on Firefox 144.0.2 in Linux Mint. It was right after the most recent Firefox update installed.

Regarding Edge, you really didn't think Microsoft would make it that easy did you? They spent a lot of money (and wrote an entire new Windows OS to boot) to ensure their unimpeded ability to be able to datamine everyone's arse at will.

The only thing missing is the "all your base are belong to us" message.

Is this the one in the sidebar? I just get an option to choose one, which I'm obviously not going to do because I dont want one!

 

[Steltek]

Is this the one in the sidebar? I just get an option to choose one, which I'm obviously not going to do because I dont want one!
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I didn't get an opportunity to choose one, and there was no option to turn it off or otherwise get rid of it.

It may have been a bug. However, with all the stuff I turned off, I am hopeful it won't be an issue in the future.

 

[WelshBloke]

I didn't get an opportunity to choose one, and there was no option to turn it off or otherwise get rid of it.

It may have been a bug. However, with all the stuff I turned off, I am hopeful it won't be an issue in the future.

I just wondered if it was that option or the one that comes after search results? Because that one is on the search providers.

 

[Steltek]

I just wondered if it was that option or the one that comes after search results? Because that one is on the search providers.

I got the chatbot, and I did get an AI item with a search result before I disabled everything. That was when I began researching how to turn it all off, so I never got anything else.