How to Disable AI Chatbots in Mozilla Firefox Browser

Mozilla Firefox version 133.0 and above now comes with built-in AI chatbot integration, designed to improve your browsing experience. These features allow users to quickly interact with popular AI tools to summarize, explain, or proofread content directly within the browser. While this is helpful for many, not everyone wants AI suggestions popping up while browsing.

What Are Firefox’s AI Chatbot Features?

With the update to version 133.0 and beyond, Firefox has introduced AI chatbot support directly into the browser. When you select text on a web page, a small AI icon appears, offering various chatbot-powered tools. Some of the supported AI chatbots include: ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, Mistral, and more.

These AI tools can perform functions like:

• Summarize: Get a quick overview of the selected text.
• Explain This: Understand complex phrases or sentences.
• Quiz Me: Generate quiz questions from the text.
• Proofread: Correct grammar and spelling.

You’ll also find these AI tools in the right-click context menu and within the Firefox sidebar.

How to Disable the AI Chatbot Hover Menu

If the floating AI icon that appears when you highlight text is distracting, you can disable it easily:

1. Highlight any text on a webpage.
2. Hover your cursor over the small AI chatbot icon that appears.
3. From the menu that opens, click Hide chatbot shortcut.

This will remove the icon from appearing whenever you select text in the future.

How to Remove the Right-Click Chatbot Menu

To stop seeing the “Ask ChatGPT” option in your right-click menu:

1. Highlight any text on the page.
2. Right-click the highlighted section.
3. Hover over Ask ChatGPT to reveal its submenu.
4. Click Remove ChatGPT.

This removes the AI options from your context menu.

How to Disable Chatbot in the Firefox Sidebar

The sidebar in Firefox may show AI chatbot options, especially if you previously used it. Here’s how to remove it:

1. Click the sidebar icon on your toolbar to open the sidebar (or use Ctrl + B).
2. Look for the AI chatbot section.
3. Uncheck the box labeled AI Chatbot to hide it from the sidebar.

How to Turn Off All AI Chat Features via About:Config

For complete control, you can use Firefox’s advanced configuration settings:

1. In the Firefox address bar, type about:config and press Enter.
2. Click “Accept the Risk and Continue” if prompted.
3. In the search bar at the top, type: browser.ml.chat.enabled
4. When the setting appears, toggle it from true to false.

This disables all AI chatbot integrations across Firefox.

Final Thoughts

Firefox’s new AI chatbot features can be incredibly useful for productivity, but they’re not for everyone. Whether you find them intrusive or simply prefer a more traditional browsing experience, Firefox offers several simple ways to disable them. You can hide hover menus, remove right-click options, or even disable AI support completely through the settings.

You can find more information about Firefox AI Chatbots from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot.