A big thank you to everyone who has started discussions / reaching out / testing patches.
I've updated the AI removal patch to purge a few more files that I missed the first time around.
There is also a new patch, that removes the newtab sponsor heavy/widgety home (808 files , 420419 deletions)
There is also a PR open to document testing instructions for the curious.
And I've opened some issues for discussions to each patch to collect any feedback from testing / open questions etc.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116967027925557386
To follow up on this, I have pushed an initial, experimental, exploratory patch to https://codeberg.org/basebrowserproject/organization
This patch removes (not just disables) many AI features from desktop Firefox including: smart windows, model chat, link previews, smart tab groups, semantic search, on device model integration (translations) etc.
1605 files changed, 98 insertions, 852297 deletions
I've tested that Firefox builds, and runs, and overall doesn't complain, but it's far from complete, hic sunt dracones etc.
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