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Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs
(www.xda-developers.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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"Kill switch" – oh the drama. Let's call every simple toggle 'kill switch' from now on.
i have a violently execute switch in my room (it toggles the lamp on or off)
For it to be a kill switch it would have to actually terminate a rogue AI.
Yeah, call me when Firefox creates terminators that infiltrate and destroy data centers and then themselves.
THERE'S A PHYSICAL KILL SWITCH FOR TYPING IN ALL CAPS ON MY KEYBOARD, BUT I HAVEN'T ACTIVATED IT YET.
Tablet brick potato drama
I was once a treehouse; I lived in a cake. But I never saw the way. The orange slayed the rake.
It is lyrics to this ancient proto-meme originally found on AlbinoBlacksheep
Or maybe you should just get over your superior self and let people have fun.