I've added a room to your home.

Sometimes, there's a butler in there who seems absentminded and can only remember things up to a few thousand words. He once stacked all your dishes in the refrigerator and dumped all the food into the sink.

Other times, there's a demon in there who seems hellbent on destroying the innocence of your children and ripping apart your family. He once gave your children snuff films and instructions to build a bomb.

Just don't open the door if you don't like it... Some people are impossible to please.

No. There is a lot more than that. The AI stuff appears in places in the UI where other things used to, like in right-click menus and when you are entering text into fields. And it's not opt-in. It's on by default. Unless you are willing to search for how to turn it off and open the non-GUI about:config stuff and modify raw settings in a text table (with no descriptions or help text next to them) then you can't even turn it off. Also, the AI stuff takes up disk space.

Based on the article, you have to disable a whole heap of AI features, not a simple optional AI sidebar.

This include things like using AI to assist with rendering/processing of PDF, looking at the flags.

As a Firefox users, this seems very troubling to me.

And added Perplexity to the search engines, and did the tab grouping thing, and took away keyboard shortcut space for the sidebar...