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Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:09:04 GMT

Ever wish you could peek at a page before you click? Now you can with Firefox Link Previews, rolling out in Firefox 142 on desktop for English for users in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. This new feature lets you long-press a link (or right-click and choose “Preview Link”) to open a small card showing details like the page title, description, and even estimated reading time if available.

Want more context? If you have at least 3gb of RAM you can also choose to add AI-generated key points, all processed privately on your device, to quickly get the gist of what’s ahead. Thanks to feedback from Labs testers, and based on data from a release experiment, Link Previews helps people browse more confidently and save time while keeping healthy engagement with the publishers who create the content.

How to try it:

Long press a link on desktop, or right-click and select Preview Link.
In the preview card, click the settings gear to enable or disable AI-generated key points.
You can manage Link Previews anytime in Settings > General > Browsing.

How to turn Link Previews off:
If you prefer not to use Link Previews, go to Settings > General > Browsing and uncheck Enable link previews. The option to preview links will be removed from right-click menus, and the long-press shortcut will be turned off.

How to remove the local AI model:
If you’ve turned on AI key points, Firefox downloads a small on-device language model to make those summaries possible. To review or remove it:

Type about:addons in the address bar.
Select On-Device AI from the menu.
You’ll see which models are installed, what they’re used for, and can remove any you no longer need.

This feature is available in English for users in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, and is being introduced gradually to ensure great performance and quality.

We’d love your feedback!
Have you tried Link Previews yet? Share what you think: is it helping you decide what to click, or do you have ideas to make it even better?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:20:29 GMT

Can i have it totally disabled in general (no model running in the background or whatever) and activate it only on explicit user action/intend for one or a selection of links? - If the answer to this is not a definitv yes this feature is staying completely disabled on all of my systems. ... And is there a chance this will be converted into an addon that users can add or remove if they want? (not just disabled?)

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:12:29 GMT

If I understand your question correctly, the answer is yes. When AI key point generation is enabled (via explicit opt-in), the local model will be downloaded, and will only run when you long-press a link, or right click and select "Preview Link". The model is not intended to be active if users do not explicitly call for it.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:51:51 GMT

Thanks for the reply. It only running "on-demand" does make it sound a better. i'd still worry that the model+api+functions it adds ... might be an additional security and flaw/bug vector, which i and other users might rather want to risk adding. Like for sensitive enviorments. It would be nice for such usecases to be able to completely remove such components.

So what are the chances that the whole AI stuff will get moved into an addon or a special version of firefox?

Link preview

bilboo — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:02:07 GMT

Link preview does not work for search results from Google or Yahoo. It does work with DuckDuckGo. This is probably not a bug, technically speaking, but seems to be a limitation in the current implementation.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

TechHorse — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:45:29 GMT

laustin, preview sounds interesting, but I was wondering the following.

1. Am I correct in thinking that absolutely nothing will happen unless if the user long presses a link or selects the context menu preview option? There won't even be any pre-fetching of data just in case the user was to decide to preview the link that they are currently hovering over, or that has keyboard focus?

2. Am I correct in thinking that the language model does not get automatically installed just from using preview? It will only get installed if the user first explicitly opens preview, and then in a separate action explicitly decides to also add the model?

3. Finally, will preview actually visit the site, or does it use some sort of caching service such as Google cache? I am guessing it probably just directly visits the site, but in either case, is there any history or cache saved anywhere resulting from previous previews?

Thanks.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:27:34 GMT

Thanks for the questions:
1. Yes, that's correct.
2. You can use Link Previews without AI. That is the default state, and relies on public metadata from the page. The model is only downloaded if you click "See more with AI" during onboarding, or enable "Allow AI to read the beginning of the page and generate key points" in settings.
3. Link Previews uses credentialless HTTPS requests to retrieve a page’s HTML and parses it without actually loading the page or or executing scripts. Firefox doesn't store a history of previewed pages.

Re: Link preview

laustin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:05:15 GMT

Right on. Link Previews will not work for all links, so it's great to get feedback like this on where to improve.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

KaSutt — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:34:15 GMT

"Now you can [peek at a page before you click] with Firefox Link Previews, rolling out in Firefox 142 on desktop for English for users in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia."

What about New Zealand? 😞

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

AngelG_66 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:48:03 GMT

I can't find the link preview you're talking about, what can be happens?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Tiky — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:37:56 GMT

I decided to create an account to give some feedback on this one! After trying Link preview, here are the issues I found out:

The text in the popup looks huuuge and there's so much wasted space that there's not enough space for a useful summary of the page. There's a cog so I was hopeful but no options at all for the appearance.
The page that I tried on had enough text for at least one keypoint for sure but the AI seems to not be willing to generate key points pages if isn't a blog or an article with a lot of text.
As you can see under my mouse, at least on Linux, if the mouse is holding the link and the popup appear, I'm stuck with the link ghosted on my cursor until I press ESC.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

jinwoosung — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:13:19 GMT

"Now you can with Firefox Link Previews, rolling out in Firefox 142 on desktop for English for users in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia."

When will it roll out for India?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

twaks99 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:27:32 GMT

This seems like a great feature, and I cannot wait to try it out. However, I am not seeing this at all in Firefox 142 on Windows. It is not even available in the settings. What do I have to do to enable this feature, or do I have to wait for a future version of Firefox?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:10:02 GMT

We're working on a global rollout next. Stay tuned 🇳🇿

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

KaSutt — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:14:44 GMT

Cheers! 🙂

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:28:13 GMT

Appreciate your effort in providing feedback!

Improving the appearance of the preview card, and our ability to generate key points for more types of articles are items we plan to address in subsequent versions.

The "ghosted" behavior of the preview card you note is new information, so I've filed a bug for us to track and consider addressing as well.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:31:02 GMT

The feature is fully rolled out in the desktop version of Firefox 142 for English speaking users in US, CA, GB, and AU. Try checking your version or restarting your browser if you meet those criteria and still don't see the feature.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:31:29 GMT

The feature is fully rolled out in the desktop version of Firefox 142 for English speaking users in US, CA, GB, and AU. Try restarting your browser if you meet those criteria and still don't see the feature.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:32:12 GMT

We're working on a global rollout next 🇮🇳

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

jinwoosung — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:47:59 GMT

👍

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

LoneyRamik — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:06:11 GMT

In one case I long-pressed a link and got "We can't preview this link" with "Visit link" below it. The problem is that it immediately went to the link when I released the mouse button without allowing me the choice of visiting or not visiting.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Kvin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:19:31 GMT

Hi, it would be beneficial if the website page was displayed during editing.
It would also be helpful to be able to select the preview delay and assign a custom key combination for displaying the preview
Thank you

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

twaks99 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:56:19 GMT

It actually works now after restarting the browser. Thanks for your help.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

alexmrtr_ — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:43:37 GMT

🇧🇷would appreciate that !!

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

martinbckr — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:00:27 GMT

What happens if the link is malicious? e.g. a payload-on-click link. Would the payload or malicious code still be downloaded to my device if I use link preview?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

c67f — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:39:22 GMT

Please don't add these AI features to Firefox. I understand it doesn't do anything or put anything on my computer if it's disabled, but this is a bad direction to be going in, and any time I see a piece of software has added some new AI feature my heart sinks a little and I want to use it less.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Ian66 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:31:05 GMT

I am a GB user, running 142.0, and I have restarted FF. I see no context menu, and no new Setting.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

MartynW — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:09:19 GMT

I have just updated to Firefox 142.0 on Windows/10 but when I go to Settings > General > Browsing I do not see the option to check Enable link previews. What must I do to see this option?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

NebularNovice — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:45:45 GMT

I tried link preview on this page. Nothing happens when I long press, and it does not show as an option on right-click. The link I tried was Community Disapproval ...

I just installed 142 and have made no changes concerning this in settings.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

MyZilla — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:55:20 GMT

Same here. I am in Canada, running FF 142 on Windows 11 Home Edition. Like @Ian66, I restarted FF, to no avail. I've tried on various pages, in various tabs, etc.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

DietTonic — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:59:48 GMT

To get it working I had to go to about:config and toggle browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled to True.

After restarting the browser, it worked as described. I also now see the options in Settings to change the AI options. It's working great for me, and this seems like a very useful feature (with or without local AI). Kudos to laustin for the feature and description!

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

DietTonic — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:01:11 GMT

To get it working I had to go to about:config and toggle browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled to True.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

DietTonic — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:01:59 GMT

To get it working I had to go to about:config and toggle browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled to True.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

MartynW — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:19:19 GMT

Thanks @DietTonic - that worked for me - although I'm still curious why it does not work via Settings.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

MyZilla — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 22:58:35 GMT

Thanks so much, @DietTonic ! That worked perfectly!

I figure it's just a workaround, though, and hopefully Mozilla will debug that...

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

JustMeToo — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:11:46 GMT

Can the next version not have any AI installed at all?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

DietTonic — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:17:34 GMT

You're most welcome - I'm glad it worked, and I added the comment to the original post (apologies for the duplicate). Just a guess is that there might be some kind of roll-out hold based on Firefox extensions. I know that roll-outs are often staged so certain users get features first (for safety, reliability, testing, risk management, etc.).

I'm running about a dozen or so from the official Firefox site (all signed), but none that should effect this functionality in any way I'm aware.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

DietTonic — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:21:22 GMT

For now, it looks like the Settings allows you to turn off AI features (either in Firefox settings or use the little gear that shows up in the Link Preview feature). The only difference, per my basic testing, is that you won't see an overview of the page with AI disabled (the top half of the "preview" shows up fine). It looks like that part is totally optional, at least for now. Here are the settings:

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

jinwoosung — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:00:01 GMT

@DietTonic wrote:
For now, it looks like the Settings allows you to turn off AI features (either in Firefox settings or use the little gear that shows up in the Link Preview feature). The only difference, per my basic testing, is that you won't see an overview of the page with AI disabled (the top half of the "preview" shows up fine). It looks like that part is totally optional, at least for now. Here are the settings:

Why are all tech companies mindlessly running behind AI? We know how to operate computers, browse the internet, read articles online and all the basic stuff. We don't need AI for that.

What is so special in this piece of code that makes all the companies go mad and shove it into our systems??

I admit that I use ChatGPT, but that's only for important stuff. That doesn't mean I want it inside my pocket 24x7

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

QA_PORCHE — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:51:50 GMT

When will it be enabled for INDIA?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:52:00 GMT

Thanks for chiming in here. We are indeed rolling this out in a staged fashion during the initial release and will be updating the defaults shortly.

Appreciate you going the extra mile to not only enable it for yourself, but to also share your workflow in this forum to help others ❤️

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:21:38 GMT

Great question. Link Previews uses HTTPS requests to retrieve a page’s HTML and parses it without executing scripts. These requests go through regular safe browsing url checks.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

LeoLaberge — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:57:34 GMT

Could you simply add a general "always disable AI features" option, that would keep any new AI-based feature from being turned on by default?

I'm getting tired of having something new unwanted pop up in my face and spent far too much time searching in which menu or where in about:config it is hiding.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

theodore_k — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:08:26 GMT

Why is the AI nonsense "key points" still visible in the UI even when the feature is toggled off?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

gfy — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:37:49 GMT

Same here, in the US.
142.0.1 (aarch64)

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

gfy — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:08:40 GMT

The preview window overlay stays after closing the tab or even when you open a new tab.

A screen recording of the behavior:

https://filebin.net/qae9q6yqa7c0g8js/Screen%20Recording%202025-08-28%20at%204.01.38%20AM.mov

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Dune9 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:18:42 GMT

When I go to Settings>General>Browsing there is no option "Enable link previews".

Ver. 142.0.1 64-bit

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

AmbientImpact — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:02:34 GMT

Agreed. It's genuinely making me want to jump to LibreWolf.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Inuya5ha — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:18:49 GMT

Very nice.

What I'd like to see in Firefox as well is pretty-printed XML AJAX responses in the Network tab, instead of parsing them as raw text. Development with Firefox would be much straightforward, because as it is, I have to copy each response in an XML formatter online tool every single time for debugging purposes.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

TechHorse — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:21:19 GMT

Hello. Is there any way to disable the shift+mouse hover trigger for Link Preview?

This might lead to accidental Preview triggers if the mouse pointer happens to be over a link when you press shift, when in fact you were intending to press a key combination such as ctrl+shift+tab to swich tabs say.

I would also suspect that it might interfere with shift+click to open the link in a new window?

Basically I want Preview to only trigger on explicit commands such as long pressing or selecting it from the context menu. I do not want to have to think about where the mouse pointer currently is whenever I wish to press a key combination that includes a shift. Is this possible? Thank you.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

RPCV — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:41:39 GMT

I've just updated Firefox, yet I do not see either one of these options. There is no Enable link previews in my Settings/General/Browsing. Nor so I have an option of On-Device AI in my add ons. Is this not roled out universally yet?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

DietTonic — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:13:04 GMT

Hi, TechHorse. You should see an option in your Firefox Settings (or about:preferences) to disable the Shift-Click option. I use middle-click to open new tabs, so it doesn't interfere for me. Other combinations, like Ctrl-Shift-Tab work fine with it enabled, but it's possible other shortcuts might be affected.

There's also an option for using long-presses to trigger the link previews, but I don't know if you can add other key or mouse modifiers in about:config. I hope this helps!

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

beatrice_2027 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:04:00 GMT

I can survive just fine without AI.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

AdrianTheFrog — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 02:45:35 GMT

It would be nice if I could ask the model questions about the page, and use it in the "Ask an AI chatbot" menu. I know the model is fairly weak, but I feel like I would get more utility from the downloaded model if it was usable in more areas.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Tiky — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:47:34 GMT

I had to disable it on my VR machine since it interfered with the "hold page to scroll" behavior. When scrolling it would sometime show the popup where I was holding the page.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

laustin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:10:47 GMT

As mentioned by a community member, there is an option to configure shortcuts, including disabling the Shift-Click option, in Firefox Settings.

The default shortcut for Link Previews is long-press. We tested out Shift-click as an option in Firefox Labs, and then in a production experiment, but decided against it after getting feedback about exactly the kind of issues you point out.

We will remove the alternative shortcuts and provide only long-press in a subsequent release.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

t3t4 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:10:31 GMT

This feature doesn't exist. Running v143, goto settings and search for link preview and nodda nothing! It simply is not there in the settings.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Agentvirtuel — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:08:55 GMT

Hello

I live in France.

An experiment.
1 - I used a vpn United Kingdom, of course, this is not my real ip, it is not my real location.
2 - Firefox with a new profile.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Foxbert_Fyrango — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:28:05 GMT

On firefox 143 in Canada, and link previews weren't working so I unchecked it with the intention of rechecking. But the option to recheck it went away and I cant find it using the search bar in settings. Any advice? Thanks : )

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Agentvirtuel — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:56:49 GMT

Hello

I live in France.

An experiment.
1 - I used a vpn Canada, of course, this is not my real ip, it is not my real location.
2 - Firefox with a new profile.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

SaxenWarrior — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 08:37:54 GMT

I have Firefox 143.0.1, I'm in the US, English, and this feature isn't in my settings?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Agentvirtuel — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:15:23 GMT

Hello

Try.

1 - Go to Configuration Editor for Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox
2 - Enter a search term browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

licekpetr920 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:18:51 GMT

cool diystees

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

SaxenWarrior — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:40:59 GMT

Thank you that worked just fine, I have it in my settings now.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

t3t4 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:52:45 GMT

Thank you! This supposed new feature is finally an available option now.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

licekpetr920 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:13:30 GMT

cool

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Agentvirtuel — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:19:55 GMT

Hello

A test.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Foxbert_Fyrango — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:37:06 GMT

That worked, thanks!! 🙂

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

zakky0601 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:55:02 GMT

good

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

JGR9 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 01:39:27 GMT

Let us right-click the link in the Link Preview. Redundant, yes, but It's just a better flow

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

devidjhon — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:46:09 GMT

It’s great to see Firefox experimenting with link previews it really changes how users decide what’s worth opening. While reading about this, I was actually switching tabs to check something on this page , and it made me realize how helpful previews can be in avoiding unnecessary clicks. Do you think this feature might also help reduce phishing risks online?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

fournm — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:37:00 GMT

This should FUNDAMENTALLY not be enabled by default. I've given up on the idea that Mozilla will do something other than push AI, but even the feature without it is an unwelcome surprise when browsing.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Agentvirtuel — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:22:09 GMT

Hello

For information purposes.

On-device AI models in Firefox.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/on-device-models

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/ai/m-p/107900/highlight/true#M41576

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

aziztsh — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:26:56 GMT

That’s a really handy update! Being able to preview links before clicking will save so much time while browsing. Features like this make online navigation smoother — reminds me how at OneLimo we also focus on making things simpler and more transparent for users. Great step forward by Firefox!

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Agentvirtuel — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:44:58 GMT

Hello

Preview webpages in Firefox with link preview.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-link-previews-firefox

Right click context menu preview link

Preview a link

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

På — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:50:10 GMT

So it seems this is now out for everyone with and it was omitted from the changelogs? Or was it mentioned in a previous version?
I searching for "firefox 146 link previews" online lets you find news posts that it was launched with version 146..

Don't omit big changes like this from changelogs please, I saw one by accident and it went away instantly and it was confusing.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

N-sh1t-ifi3d — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:18:05 GMT

Thank you. Disabled it right away. B)

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

samyotix — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:50:38 GMT

The worst "feature" ever: I can waste a huge amount of energy and processing power to get a summary full of errors and nonsense, which saves me 20 seconds of reading. People are re-opening nuclear power plants to power this BULL**bleep**

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

samyotix — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:52:21 GMT

Couldn't you just move all this AI bull**bleep** into an optional addon?

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

samyotix — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:54:31 GMT

Tried AI link previews. The best option would be to not have them.

Re: Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click

Agentvirtuel — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:14:45 GMT

Hello

On-device AI models in Firefox.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/on-device-models

An experiment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvn_lNsNlCo