I covered how to disable Firefox’s new AI “features” in my previous post. While browsing my feeds, I came across a new AlternativeTo post on another enabled-by-default addition to Firefox titled Firefox tests privacy-focused direct results in the address bar with possible sponsorships. This new “feature” was already disabled in my config (thank you Arkenfox!), but AlternativeTo helpfully included a note about how to disable it for people with a more vanilla configuration:

Users can disable the feature in Firefox’s Search settings or by setting browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.online.enabled to “false” in about:config.

While AlternativeTo is mainly for software discovery, I must opine that their short news updates are good quality.