People are noticing Firefox gobbling extra CPU and electricity, apparently caused by an "inference engine" built into recent versions of Firefox. Don't say El Reg didn't try to warn you.

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups . Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference . All we have so far is a smoking gun, but it does look like Mozilla's product management has maintained its laser-like aim at its own feet.

This looks like an unfortunate sequel to a series of recent stories from The Register . First, in March, we reported that Firefox had built-in vertical tabs . In the second screenshot in that story, you can see something that r

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