Try out AI controls in Firefox (Nightly)

[stef]

Hi everyone 👋,

I’m Stefan, a PM on the Firefox team. We’ve talked a lot about building AI in Firefox in a way that puts users in control. Today, I wanted to share something new we’re testing that does just that, and get feedback: AI controls.

As AI-enhanced features show up in more places across Firefox, we’ve heard that you want clearer ways to understand what’s enabled and how to manage it. This feature is a step towards that. You can read more about the approach in our Distilled blog post. 

AI controls will be available to try later today in Firefox Nightly. We’re still actively working on it, so some details may change before this ships more broadly in Firefox 148 later this month.

What’s covered in AI controls today

From the AI controls page in Settings, you'll be able to manage the following AI-enhanced features:

• Translations – generative translation of webpage content
• Alt text in PDFs – generated image descriptions for improved accessibility
• AI-enhanced tab grouping – suggested group names and related tabs
• Link previews – AI-generated key points from a page before opening it
• AI chatbot in the sidebar – quick access to a selected chatbot (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and more)

All features are optional, and you can choose a setup based on what works for you.

Blocking AI features

If you don’t want to use AI features at all, the Block AI enhancements toggle disables current and future AI features and suppresses prompts. You can always re-enable individual features if you want. 

Feedback we’re looking for

Your feedback from Nightly is especially valuable as we look to continually improve the AI controls over time:

• Is the settings UI clear, discoverable, and understandable without additional context?
• Do the controls behave the way you expect when you enable or block a feature? If not, what surprised you?
• Is anything missing that you expected to be configurable, or anything present that feels unnecessary?
• Have you encountered any bugs, glitches, or confusing edge cases? Please include steps to reproduce where possible.
• Does the language used in the UI clearly explain what each control does and what it affects?

Thanks for taking the time to try this out!
- Stef

[gullsher98743]

I think the controls are a step in the right direction, especially having a global “Block AI enhancements” option. That said, making the initial experience clearer (like a first-run choice to enable or keep AI fully disabled) could reduce confusion and build more trust with users who prefer a minimal setup.

[Tazer_Silvascar]

It's a start, but for me, it doesn't go far enough. Even a little bit of it being hard-baked into the browser itself erodes my trust in it. I don't want any of it this side of the firewall. It's a safety risk. Changing it to an extension rather than hardcoding it into the browser at least means that every part of it is completely, 100% optional. Does that mean it's at the mercy of extra security checks? Yeah. And that's exactly how I want it.

[归云一去]

why canot use AI in china?zhe last one Le chat mistral  is useful but not again?

[TamagoSensei]

sudo apt-get purge firefox

That's me until this AI crap is gone. I don't want a toggle, I want it out. I've used Firefox since the first public version, and this misapplication of resources is gross. Vivaldi until y'all come to your senses. 

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Firefox AI controls https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-ai-controls

For information https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1544091#answer-1812700

[digital_carver]

I find the AI Chatbot in Sidebar feature pretty confusing - is it just a split tab-like UI to have a chat interface open, or does it get any information about the pages we are visiting or about the browser by default? I.e. is it effectively the same as if I opened that chatbot in a tab, move it to a new window, and made that and the current window side by side in my OS - just a much more convenient way of doing that? Or is there some way in which this is conceptually different from that? 

If it's the former, just a sidebar "tab" interface to the chatbot with nothing more special about it, why does it open with apparently a fresh un-logged-in session while any normal tab I open with that chatbot (eg. ChatGPT) opens logged in? Is it that this sidebar chatbot runs in its own container or something conceptually similar? 

I'd also like it if the https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot page was more informative: right now it reads like a "baby's first chatbot" page explaining mostly generic things about what chatbots are, and very little about this specific feature and how it works. 

PS: I had to scroll way too far down and click 'more replies' far too many times to see if this had been discussed already; since this thread seems saturated with talk about AI features being present at all, it would perhaps be useful to have individual threads for each AI feature where people can actually focus on the particular functionality and its implementation, without having to wade through this sprawling thread. 

[KellyClowers]

Those are good questions, I admit I hadn't thought much about them since I don't use the sidebar (or any AI chat). From the little I know it think it would be like opening the chatbot in a new tab, but specifics and confirmation would nice, and having a details link at least on the feature setting would be good

[KellyClowers]

Hi, Fennec / FF on Android beta channel seems to have just gotten an AI page summary feature that comes up as an offer, after having local (on device) translations for a while.

However the settings for both of those are in there own sections, are there plans to revamp the mobile setting with a unified AI section like in desktop? If so when can we expect it?

[Jkrhkjuf]

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[Maguillage]

Finally having the toggle to turn off all the slop is good, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem with investing in slop in the first place.