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Mozilla is steadily integrating AI into Firefox, but with a different philosophy than most browsers: AI is optional and user-controlled. The biggest turning points came with Firefox 148 and Firefox 150. Firefox 148 introduced the new AI Controls panel, giving users a central place to manage or completely disable AI features. Firefox 150 extended this idea further by adding enterprise policy support (AIControls), allowing organizations to centrally enable or block AI features across multiple systems. At the same time, Firefox continues to rely on a mix of external AI providers (like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini) and task-specific/local AI features, instead of shipping one built-in LLM. This makes Firefox one of the few browsers where AI is both powerful and fully optional.

Timeline of Firefox AI features

• Firefox 133 → AI chatbot sidebar introduced
• Firefox 143 → Microsoft Copilot added as provider
• Firefox 148 → AI Controls added for users
• Firefox 149.0.2 / 150 → AIControls policy for administrators

What changed in Firefox 148?

Firefox 148 introduced the AI Controls section in Settings.
This allows users to:

• enable or disable AI

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