“Mozilla has been adding in llm & ai related features to Firefox for a while, enabling them by default without asking the user… The main problem with this is users are having this forced on them with no gui option to disable these features.”
Article contains instructions for disabling the LLM through about:config.
There is something to be said for making modifications instead of forks so you are never waiting for an update.
Here’s my 2 cents: https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix
And check the link for feature comparisons.