How to disable Google Search AI Overview in Firefox

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• In Firefox, open a tab to about:config
• Enter browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh and click the + sign on the right
  • This will now show the value for the Boolean as true which is correct
  • Be setting this to true you enable the option to add a custom search engine to Firefox
• Go to Settings or navigate to about:preferences#search
• Under Search Shortcuts click Add
  • Search enging name : Google without AI
  • Engine URL : https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&channel=entpr&udm=14&q=%s
  • Alias : gnai
  • Click Add Engine
• At the top of the Settings page under Default Search Engine, select in the drop-down Google without AI
• Test this by doing a Firefox search in the URL bar or search bar for something. At the top of the search results page, instead of All you'll see it has selected Web so that it only shows web results.

This adds a new custom search engine that uses Google but adds the udm=14 query parameter to only return web results, not AI Overviews.

There was no spot to add and alias in Firefox 139.0.4 on a Mac.
So I just stuck "gnai" in the blank for "Keyword". I have no idea if that was necessary or not, but it''s working. My searches now show up without Google's idiotic AI summaries.

The alias field was not available on my Windows machine as well. It works regardless with my searches returning only web results