💘 on Nostr: since the firefox ai runtime (/ml component) was implemented in gecko directly, ...

since the firefox ai runtime (/ml component) was implemented in gecko directly, you're right that it's technically present on android - but it's not actively being used/implemented anywhere in geckoview and fenix (firefox for android) itself - unlike firefox for desktop, which has been adding user-facing features like ai chatbot integration, link preview, smart tab grouping, etc. (with a separate "genai" component).

but, i took a look, and i will go ahead and disable `extensions.ml.enabled` for next release, thanks for pointing it out.

in general, i'm going to take a closer look into the ai runtime/ml component (that we're inheriting from gecko) for next release, and see what specifically we can disable/remove. i don't think we want to kill *all* local "machine learning" functionality (ex. firefox translations technically uses machine learning models - and we def want to support that), but we def don't won't support anything related to "generative" ai, like the examples i mentioned of firefox's recent features on desktop