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Since I realized I haven't done it yet, an about me post!

My name is Rode, or you can address me by any title really.

He/Him

I do art and stuff, 90% of the time it's an actual effort yet the memes get more love for no reason.

You can also use my ask box to send me pictures of robot characters to draw (Robots, Machines, Androids, you name it),

I am easily findable in quite a lot of fandoms, especially for horror games.

This is a safe space for everyone, as long as y'all are kind to one another, we're gucci. (Am I old?)

IF I do not respond to things, don't worry! I'm usually busy with projects and don't particularly have the time to yap to y'all.

The special tag is "Rode's Log."

#about myself #special tag? sure #Rode's Log

ralfmaximus

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

a-for-effort-f-for-execution

if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:

browser.ml.enable

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

sidebar.revamp

unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox

mckitterick

and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox

on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup

mckitterick

irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2025), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.menu

browser.ml.chat.page

browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge

browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

in addition to nuking AI, it'll also speed up your browsing

squirrelstothenuts

you don't have to copy and paste them one by one, you can create a user.js file that should be located at:

(if you're unsure, go to about:support and check the path at "Profile Directory")

(also for linux users: firefox 147 will finally respect the xdg base directory specification so you won't have a .mozilla folder on your home directory and it will be located in your .config and/or .local /share)

and paste these lines

// ai bullshit user_pref("browser.ml.chat.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.hideFromLabs", true); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.hideLabsShortcuts", true); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.menu", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.shortcuts", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.sidebar", false); user_pref("browser.ml.checkForMemory", false); user_pref("browser.ml.enable", false); user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnable", false); user_pref("extensions.ml.enabled", false);

(some settings are redundant and mozilla tweaks things from time to time so if you don't want to bother, grab the user.js file from https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox and update this file every 2 months)

mckitterick

shortcut for the more-advanced user. which we're all going to need to become, real quick now