Share your feedback on the AI services experiment in Nightly

[asafko]

Hi folks, 

In the next few days, we will start the Nightly experiment which provides easy access to AI services from the sidebar. This functionality is entirely optional, and it’s there to see if it’s a helpful addition to Firefox. It is not built into any core functionality and needs to be turned on by you to see it. 

If you want to try the experiment, activate it via Nightly Settings > Firefox Labs (please see full instructions here). 

We’d love to hear your feedback once you try out the feature, and we’re open to all your ideas and thoughts, whether it’s small tweaks to the current experience or big, creative suggestions that could boost your productivity and make accessing your favorite tools and services in Firefox even easier.

Thanks so much for helping us improve Firefox!

[sn0]

Need support for bearer tokens please

[AndrewBL]

Please add the Perplexity extension as part of the AI Chatbot options. Thank you.

[zunami]

I have problems with the function.

If I select “explain this” and have Google Gemini stored, the sidebar opens but the text is not transferred to the sidebar for editing.
BUT when I use ChatGPT or Hugging Chat it works without problems.

[WatermelnMaiden]

please remove this promtly. Nobody asked for, it's destroying my user experience even knowing that firefox is following the absolutely uninformed eco disastrous water wasting time wasting trend of adding ai to something that has been long touted as a better experience than chrome and google browsers. stop wasting resources on something everybody has said they dont want and focus on actual improvements and other areas that firefox would actually greatly benefit from

[makinaro]

This suckssss

[Foxkit]

Please remove this

[ART-ist]

• I think it's a good and useful thing you support LLM integration with your AI chat bot feature.
• It's good, that it's off by default and it should stay being opt-in. FF is all about choice after all.
• Please add support to use local models by adding support for ollama (and maybe a local OpenAi-complient) API.

[JeffHorton]

There needs to be a way to disable the ^ + X shortcut that enables the chatbot and opens the menu.

[ESaturn]

this is an outrage.
we really need full criminalization and abolition of all LLM generative AI, and enforcement of existing international law that effectively bans all LLMs such as both the UN's universal declaration of human rights and international copyright law.

both the process and ethics of training any LLM AI(the basis of all image, text, music, and code generating AI) can be most accurately described as digital serial rape, it is as a general rule non-consensual and done by force, deception, and coercion. OpenAI has even repeatedly argued in court that they should be allowed to do this because by their own admission it is impossible to build LLM AI without doing this. all in order to enact a round about form of slavery in forced extraction of labor from non-consensual sources, even identity theft as it mimics the styles of specific creative workers with neither their knowing nor consent and in some cases deliberately as a function of the software. anyone who uses or tolerates any LLM based AI with only the exception of using it to sabotage and fight back against LLMs is complicit in this atrocity.
i say this as someone who has repeatedly been sexually assaulted as well, and mean it fully.

[ESaturn]

you need to remove this, and ban all LLM AI now. generative AI is an inexcusable atrocity that must be eradicated everywhere by any and all means necessary.

[Justin2]

NO, NO, AND MORE NO. Stop this absolute rubbish and get back to making the browser.

[Solid_Fuel]

Ollama support so we can use locally run LLM's instead of the big public ones?
Both as a privacy thing and as a quality of life.

[MaxHaviv]

I don't mind the AI chat bot, but I use the shortcut CTRL + ALT + X for spell check on google docs and I cannot use spellcheck anymore because this dumb popup now shows everything I try to use the shortcut. And disabling the bot doesn't matter since using the shortcut reactivates it. I think that its incredibly stupid that the shortcut reactivates the window to open after I disable it in settings. Who thought that was a good idea.

[nouckey]

well **bleep** THIS a million times !! how could you do that to me ! activated by default ? god i hate you so much

[yolo1]

Please put this in a plugin first before deploying these features. If your plugin becomes popular, integrate it into your core software. Stop using your core userbase to capitalize on it.

[Kissaki]

> When you choose a chatbot you agree to the providers terms of use and privacy policy.

How am I supposed to make that assessment and decision?

At least links to those products would help. Some guidance or description would help too.

Supporting local AI (ollama) would also be helpful.

[illusoryrealm]

hi! I made this account specifically to say:

its crap get rid of it

[IlIllIlllllIllI]

I literally made an account on this forum specifically to voice my discontent about this. Lastpass isn't built into my browser, neither is bitwarden. Not even Ublock origin. But I have to have a sidebar for the 2025 edition of smarterchild from MSN messenger?

LLM chatbots aren't **bleep**ing novel; they don't do anything valuable in the industry use cases they're put in, they can't do even the basics when you contact an actual business, and to top it all off they blow infinitely more carbon into the atmosphere than a human, for the sake of replacing a human.

Just NO. I don't WANT this in my browser. I don't want to have to turn it off and constantly revoke consent from hallucination engine #200 that only stops hallucinating after enough people have been burned by it.

Take the revocation of consent as a NO, don't press yourself in deeper. Holy. **bleep**ing. **bleep**. Guys.

Take. Revocation. Of consent. As a NO.

[IlIllIlllllIllI]

No.

[sp09]

Please please please stop making AI searches default. AI uses horrifying amounts of fresh water and energy and is trained on stolen ideas, articles, books and art. And, more often than not, it is not even correct or helpful. Just let us have a regular search engine.

[offline_zh]

Please add DeepSeek or locally deployed API config for chatbot. Now it can be added via modify provider from about:config, but the context menu is not working.

[beckyricee]

The AI services experiment in Nightly has been insightful and user-friendly, offering quick responses and intuitive interaction. It handled queries like kuwait civil id enquiry efficiently, showcasing its practical utility. Overall, it’s a promising tool with great potential for everyday tasks.

[stacyjasper]

Hello,

I've been exploring the new AI services experiment in Nightly, and I think it's a promising step toward integrating useful tools more seamlessly into the browser experience. The sidebar approach feels non-intrusive, and the opt-in nature is reassuring for those concerned about control and privacy. While it's still early, I can already see potential in making everyday tasks quicker, especially for users who juggle multiple services or research frequently. I encourage everyone to give it a try through the Firefox Labs settings and share your impressions—your feedback really helps shape what comes next. Also, if you're diving into AI tools, I highly recommend checking out Anya Longwell for inspiration on how productivity and creativity can truly come together.

Thanks!

[ksetlak]

I have one observation: I'm logged in to Google on my work laptop and my work Google account is the primary one, while the private one is the secondary. However, I only use Gemini with my private account. I can't change the account I'm using in the side-docked window, because when I attempt to do that, a new tab is opened in my main Firefox window. Would be lovely if this was configurable and `authuser=1` could be added to the params in the URL used to open the side pane.

[Mardak]

Google does support multiple active accounts where in your case https://gemini.google.com/u/0/ is probably your primary work account and https://gemini.google.com/u/1/ is your private account. Currently, the sidebar defaults to the first account logged in, so if you could sign in first with your private account, that should get it to work.

Firefox also supports Container Tabs, which is useful for sites that don't normally support multiple accounts. If you logged in to your work Google account with a "Work" container while your private account is logged in to a regular tab (not container), this might work for you too.

Alternatively, you could specify a custom provider for the desired Gemini url to get that in the sidebar for simple chatting, but currently Gemini doesn't support passing in prompts when customized this way.

 

[0x4d6165]

Actually listen to your userbase for *once* when we say we do NOT want this! Be a good web browser stop trying to be edge.

[AdventureGamer]

#FireEdge

[FastBrowser2022]

I tried using the right click > Simplify text option with Gemini. It worked the first time, but the 2nd time Gemini did a bot check. It otherwise worked fine after completing it.

I also tested it with Chat-GPT 4o, this worked for summarizing the same text and simplifying content.

However I noticed there is no context menu option to simply highlight text and re-write text in an unsubmitted text input field

[Mardak]

A quick test of this text input field for replying 📝 seems to work for selecting the text and passing it to the chatbot 🤖. However the current sidebar integration requires copy/pasting the result back to the original text input field 📋.

What were you wanting to do with this if it was more seamless? 🤔

 

[wutongtaiwan]

I want the AI chatbot feature, it's free, unlimited and no account login, and there are no geographical restrictions, and I don't want to be blocked because I'm in China

[Mardak]

Are you able to download and run a https://llamafile.ai as that would be free, unlimited and no account login. It runs on your computer, so you don't need internet access to chat, but it could be slow depending on your hardware.

[piradata]

Loved the feature, I always have a open tab just for chatgpt, so its a big win, and its nice that it can be disabled or opt in/out for people that don't like it.

What I miss is just a way to simply open the chat on the sidebar, the only way I found is to right click and chose one option in 'Summarize', 'Simplify Language' or 'Quiz Me', but neither of these options can be used to just open a plain clear new chat, and if I close the sidebar, there is no way to open it again on the previous conversation.

What i would suggest, is simply a button on the bookmark toolbar, to simply open close the chat, that would suffice already 🙂

[Mardak]

You can Customize toolbar to add a sidebar toggle button, and the chatbot will open a plain new chat. If you are logged in to some chat providers, you should be able to access previous conversations as well. Potentially Firefox could restore the last conversation, but others might prefer a clear chat, so maybe we could restore when reopening as well as provide a button to start new?

The improved sidebar also has a button to open/close the AI chatbot (as well as other sidebar tools).

[francois79]

Hey

Thanks for the work done.

I do not understand why you plug only onto private llm services where some of them are using private llm 

My ideal is to be able to connect to llm model server such as https://github.com/ollama/ollama
Or https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm
Best through proxies https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

Is it possible?

[Mardak]

You can configure a custom provider to any url including those running on a local server such as your own computer. At a glance, it looks like there's various web UIs for ollama that can be separately installed, so you could at least have a private chatbot in the sidebar, but I'm not sure if any of them currently accepts passing in prompts. https://llamafile.ai is another llm model server that has a built in web chat interface that accepts ?q=prompt urls.

Potentially Firefox can directly interface with these services to render a custom Firefox chatbot or power non-chatbot experiences instead of currently requiring a web chat interface.

[SpidFightFR-Dev]

Hey guys, i just tried to nightly version, with AI stuff.

Honestly it's good, but it would better fit the standards of privacy Mozilla displays if it was possible to download and run models (E.G: 7b llama3 or Mixtral models) from the web browser (considering the pc running firefox is powerful enough). In a similar fashion of GPT4All.

It would allow for a less-powerfull yet completely offline model execution.

Just food for thoughts, it's similar to the "localhost" approach with locallama, it's not very practical on windows for example, it would require a docker instance running on wsl to make something clean.

Peace - Spid. ✌️

[Mardak]

I believe GPT4All exposes an inference http API but not a chatbot page that could be shown in the Firefox sidebar. Currently Firefox is rendering (potentially local) server-provided html in the sidebar, but we could build our own Firefox chat interface to show the results of inference -- potentially handled directly within Firefox similar to translations and alt-text or a server of your choice such as GPT4All running your preferred model.

Are there any particular use cases that you think must be handled with a local model?

[facni]

It would be nice if we were able to do right-click over the chatbot's panel to, for example, copy, paste and translate text or take screenshots.

[Mardak]

Thanks for the feedback. It seems like we should be able to add the right-click menu to the sidebar at least with copy and paste as those should already work with keyboard shortcuts, e.g., ctrl-c / cmd-c. Others like translate might need some additional work to get the appropriate text from the sidebar content.

[williamwalker]

Hey asafko, thanks for the heads up! I'm always excited to try new Firefox features. Quick question - will this AI sidebar integration work with existing AI services we might already use, or is it limited to specific partners?