Firefox AI guardrails arrive for mobile
Mozilla has introduced AI controls in the latest Firefox release for mobile devices. Users can now toggle generative AI features on or off and selectively enable specific capabilities. This move contrasts with other tech companies that often lack such comprehensive opt-out options.
- ▪The Firefox 151 release includes AI controls for both iOS and Android systems.
- ▪Users can turn off all generative AI features with a binary toggle.
- ▪Mozilla's AI capabilities include translations and voice search.
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News AI Firefox AI guardrails arrive for mobile Some rare good AI news. By Anna Washenko May 19, 2026 5:45 pm EST Mozilla On a day when Google announced AI feature after AI feature at I/O, here's something a little different: Today's Firefox 151 release brings AI controls to both iOS and Android systems. People can use the binary toggle to turn off all generative AI features as a blanket setting. There are also options to pick and choose which AI features are enabled. Mozilla does offer several potentially useful AI capabilities in its browser, such as translations and voice search, and some of them are part of the newest release. But this type of total opt-out capability isn't so common among tech companies (cough cough, Google).
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