Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox's growing AI capabilities.

Firefox 148 [1]adds new settings for AI controls within Firefox's settings area for individually manipulating the AI features available in Firefox. This includes the AI "kill switch" for blocking all new or current AI enhancements in Firefox.

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Among the AI features that can be toggled individually are around translations, image alt text in the Firefox PDF viewer, tab group suggestions, key points in link previews, and AI chatbot providers in the sidebar.

Firefox 148 also brings Firefox for Android, support for the Trusted Types API, CSS shape() function support, Sanitizer API support, WebGPU enhancements, and a variety of other changes. More details on the developer changes to find with Firefox 148 can be found via [3]developer.mozilla.org .

Firefox 148.0 binaries are available to download from [4]ftp.mozilla.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-148-AI-Controls

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=firefox_148_lrg

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/148

[4] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/148.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/