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I have Google set as the default search engine in Firefox. This morning
I was trying to have a conversation with Gemini and light gray text
started showing up to the right of my cursor whenever I was trying to
type a response. Some AI was trying to predict what I was going to type.

When I tried to duplicate the issue in Vivaldi (which is also fully up
to date) this problem didn't happen.

Does anybody have any idea how to stop this from happening in Firefox?

TIA.
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"John C." wrote:

Does anybody have any idea how to stop this from happening in Firefox?

Maybe try Tools, Settings, AI Controls, Block AI Enhancements?
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Andy Burns wrote:

John C. wrote:

Does anybody have any idea how to stop this from happening in Firefox?

Maybe try Tools, Settings, AI Controls, Block AI Enhancements?

Yes, that was the first thing I did. It didn't help for some reason.
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John C. wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

John C. wrote:

Does anybody have any idea how to stop this from happening in Firefox?

Maybe try Tools, Settings, AI Controls, Block AI Enhancements?

Yes, that was the first thing I did. It didn't help for some reason.

Do you have to restart the browser after that?
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R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

John C. wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

John C. wrote:

Does anybody have any idea how to stop this from happening in Firefox?

Maybe try Tools, Settings, AI Controls, Block AI Enhancements?

Yes, that was the first thing I did. It didn't help for some reason.

Do you have to restart the browser after that?

I don't believe so, but I did that anyway.
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John C. wrote:

R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

John C. wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

John C. wrote:

Does anybody have any idea how to stop this from happening in Firefox? >>>>

Maybe try Tools, Settings, AI Controls, Block AI Enhancements?

Yes, that was the first thing I did. It didn't help for some reason.

Do you have to restart the browser after that?

I don't believe so, but I did that anyway.

...and it still didn't stop the predictive text from happening.
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John C. wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

John C. wrote:

Does anybody have any idea how to stop this from happening in Firefox?

Maybe try Tools, Settings, AI Controls, Block AI Enhancements?

Yes, that was the first thing I did. It didn't help for some reason.

Looking at about:preferences#search I have to ask what your settings are there, specifically "Search Suggestions".
"Show search suggestions" is turned off on my machines
"Show recent searches" is turned on but I don't think that's your problem.

If that is your problem it has nothing to do with AI at all.
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R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

John C. wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

John C. wrote:

Does anybody have any idea how to stop this from happening in Firefox?

Maybe try Tools, Settings, AI Controls, Block AI Enhancements?

Yes, that was the first thing I did. It didn't help for some reason.

Looking at about:preferences#search I have to ask what your settings are there, specifically "Search Suggestions".
"Show search suggestions" is turned off on my machines
"Show recent searches" is turned on but I don't think that's your problem.

If that is your problem it has nothing to do with AI at all.

I don't want to turn off search suggestions in the address bar. I just
want turn off all instances of predictive text. Here is what's happening:

I ask a question in the address bar, something that Gemini steps in and
tries to answer. In reply to what Gemini says, I attempt to compose a
response. As I start typing the text, light gray text starts appearing
to the right of my cursor. It's HORRIBLY distracting and VERY annoying.

There isn't any such problem in Vivaldi, just in Firefox.

And I just noticed that it's not happening in Firefox now either.
Probably because I closed Firefox, deleted all the DOM storage, then
restarted FF.
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