06-21-2024 11:55 AM - last edited on 10-18-2024 02:19 PM by Jon
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!
10-18-2024 04:24 AM
Very good, but I missed having a keyboard shortcut to trigger the panel.
10-18-2024 06:52 AM
Hi, great feature, thanks! One question: Can you allow the user to create his own "easy access" phrases, backed by a prompt the user can write? For example, currently there is "Summarize", "simplify" and "quiz me" (my german translations). How about users can enter a brief title for a task and back it by a prompt which they write in a text-field in Firefox.
10-18-2024 07:15 AM
I find this feature valuable for me. I tried it with good results, but I had to deactivate it. The reason for that is that it had many false clicks. I can have something highlighted, then click by accident or just because, and it would open the AI chat. I think that if the trigger is away from this default behavior of mine, it would be more valuable for me.
10-18-2024 11:35 AM
DISAGREE!!! It prompts all of Mozilla to be just like MegaSoft, CrApple, Scroogle, sCamsKunk, Sony, LG, Intel, Qualcomm, and Oracle Java. They do not care for users, whatsoever. Stupid bigwig corporations.
10-18-2024 07:52 AM
Funny, every comment supporting this crap sound like easily manipulated people, bots or people who work at NVIDIA.
10-18-2024 10:46 AM
One thing - will the sidebar integration be customizable? I like a clean interface.
10-20-2024 07:37 AM
Hi, how do we connect Oobabooga to this feature? I think it's great because I don't have to switch tabs.
10-20-2024 11:12 AM
i would like to use perplexity AI as search engine. maybe for the next release... regards
10-20-2024 06:27 PM
VETO
10-20-2024 11:59 AM
I have both ethical and environmental objections to AI. I will not be using any features you produce using it, so please save your time and money for something worthwhile.
10-20-2024 03:17 PM
hell no i hate google for a reason
10-20-2024 06:26 PM
Same as Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Copilot, Apple Intelligence, Oracle's AI, Phone and Internet Services AI, and all other Illegal Corporations' Artificial Intelligence! Agree? They are all retarded scammers.
10-20-2024 10:28 PM
I can accept this as an optional opt-in feature like how it is now, but I have one major issue with it: The current implementation does not provide any value at all. Why is it a sidebar? Why do I still need to login with the service I want to use? I can just open a new tab and do that as well, there is no additional value!
If I want to chat with an AI I'm mainly using https://duck.ai. Why? I don't have to login, I don't have to pay, the privacy policy/deal duckduckgo has with the AI host forbids them to train their AIs on the data users submit via duck.ai so it comes down to being a free, private, neither signup nor payment required AI chat which is exactly how I like my AIs. The only downside is that the amount of prompts/messages per day. If you could integrate (something like) that into Firefox I'd love to use that, but in it's current state there's no reason why I would want this, it's just unnecessary bloat.
10-21-2024 03:11 AM
Hello, I think the new feature is very well done and a good idea. I use ChatGPT and find it very practical that it is possible to forward marked text snippets to it using this function. What I would like to see is the option to define your own menu items including prompt texts. For example, I find the function for summarizing text snippets very useful, but I have already configured my own GPT for this, which I would like to use for this. I would also like it if you could specify whether the request should be processed in a temporary chat by ChatGPT, in other words, no separate entry is created in the chat history of ChatGPT. I hope you continue to pursue this integration 🙂
In summary, I would like to see: