cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37149554

If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or later with iOS 26+, the summary is created on your device using Apple Intelligence. On other devices with earlier iOS versions, the page text is sent securely to Mozilla cloud-based AI, which creates the summary and sends it back.

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    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      9 days ago

      I assume that you can turn it off in about:config by setting browser.ml.enable to false, which appears to my quick skim to be a global setting for AI-related functionality.

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        iPhone has about:config?

        Still worrying if they do end up baking something into the browser and hiding the Off switch behind an obscure setting

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          iPhone has about:config?

          I don’t use iOS, so I don’t know for sure, but I assume yes. The Fennec build does on Android. I’m currently using the official Mozilla Firefox build on Android because of the Fennec guys breaking their build, and it looks like they only have it enabled by default in the nightly and dev builds…but it’s present in the regular builds as well, just off by default, and you can flip it on.

          You need to go to chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml, and it’ll have said advanced settings. By default, Firefox-on-Android will eat the chrome:// bit if you paste it into the field, so you want to be sure to have that there.

          There’s also a setting there, general.aboutConfig.enable. If you set that to True, it’ll make about:config also go to the advanced settings page.

          • noodlejetski (he/him)@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            8 days ago

            I’m surprised you (incorrectly) assume that iOS build (which, per Apple’s regulations, is just a Safari with a different skin on top of it) comes with a feature that’s not available on the main Android build unless you jump through hoops.