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!

[RattyTatTat]

The fact that they're even considering this, coupled with the fact that they their employees are only replying to yes-men shows that they don't really care. I guess Firefox considers us less "users" and more "consumers" by now. At best they'll let you turn it off, after every single update.

[celestialz]

I downloaded Firefox to get away from the extra shady stuff that chromium browsers do but glad to know nowhere is safe! does anybody know any alternatives? 😋 if they follow through with this I'm not against switching again

[RattyTatTat]

LibreWolf might work. Its just a fork of FireFox with more of a privacy focus.

[anorax]

No AI.

I don't want AI in my favorite web browser. I don't want AI at all. We don't need AI.

AI is responsible of the ensh1tt1f1cation of the web and the ensh1tt1f1cation of the world.

AI is an environmental crime. We have to reduce our impact, not increase it!

[lilliana]

wat if the electricity used was from renewables Lol

[MikeCerm]

Only interested in this if it can connect to local LLMs, Ollama, etc.. I do understand why so many people are so vocally opposed to this completely optional feature. Those people are short-sighted, for sure, but if the default option here was "run your own local LLM completely privately, nothing goes to the cloud ever," and then also offered an option to connect to the corporate LLMs in the cloud for the people who want it, I think the pushback would be lessened. Brave recently introduced the ability to connect to your own self-hosted LLM, and I have found that useful.

[genuinelywish]

It's only "completely optional" until it isn't.

[dareksmarek]

DO. NOT. DO THIS. I don't want to sound rude or agressive, but I don't believe you don't know that ai is highly harmful to the environment, and that people who develop it steal all the sources. Can't you at least do not contribute to ruining everyone's right to use the internet safely, the fact that this function was added just shows that firefox's slogans about privacy are worth putting them among trash. Nobody needs any ai functions, it doesn't have anything new, it's quality is horrifying, and the harm done by it is gigantic. Please stop doing this.

[SabreWulf1986]

These idiotic companies are now buying entire nuclear power plants for this crap. Literally putting more investment into AI than supplying electricity to humans.

[Werewolfin]

please god no more

in all seriousness i do not want yet another AI service i have to opt out of when frankly opting in should be the default. if someone wants AI to infect anything they use, they can install it like any other extension or however that garbage works, but pushing it onto every single user is messed up.

[SabreWulf1986]

Disturbing the amount of people that don't understand the concept of a slippery slope

Give them an inch and they will take a mile

[jaydenNotjustyn]

jeez... i thought this company knew what their customers wanted

[SabreWulf1986]

Todd Howard must be their new CEO

[metalbyte]

You guys are fools of the first magnitude if you are seriously devoting resources to AI services.

I’m writing as a long-time supporter and user of Firefox, I find it deeply concerning that Mozilla is investing in AI projects at a time when Firefox itself is still in need of critical improvement.

The mobile version of Firefox, in particular, remains frustratingly buggy, slow, and unpolished, with mobile extensions lacking the consistency needed for a seamless user experience. Given the recent wave of users abandoning Google Chrome, Mozilla has a golden opportunity to capitalize on this by refining Firefox's core features and delivering the best browser experience possible.

Focus your resources on making Firefox an excellent browser across all platforms. Chasing a fad, especially in a time when end users are growing increasingly tired of tech companies cramming in AI at every turn, is profoundly foolish.

[SabreWulf1986]

If Google gets broken up then bye bye Firefox. You know most of Mozilla's money comes from Google right?

[danibanani]

If Firefox has AI then there's no reason not to just go back to Google Chrome. At least you're giving us the option to turn it off, for now. If that ever changes I'm finding a new browser.

[SabreWulf1986]

Mozilla is cooked. Bring on the Ladybird browser.

[Mohamed3nan]

I don’t understand why people complain when they can just turn it off. Yet, they stop others from making their lives easier by using this feature, lol.

By the way, I’d like to edit the built-in prompts—any suggestions?!

[weaf]

why not the other way around, you want it you install it. why do i have to disable everything i never want in the first place? and disabling it is not a solution, i just check and some of setting enable themself on next update! (suggestion of addon? no thank you) no need to copy MS and Google that force their app without the ability to uninstall them.

[YassinOmer]

I enabled access to AI services from the sidebar but am not seeing a shortcut or a button to use it.

[majesticmini471]

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.

[SabreWulf1986]

Had some stupid little blue icon interfering with my mouse cursor across multiple webpages. Clicked on it and some AI chatbot junk popped up. I use Perplexity when and if I want it, I don't want this crap baked into anything. What are you Microsoft? I thought you fail if you get in the way of what the user is doing as a software dev? But what the fk would I know right.

[aac]

I found the same behavior annoying and lead me to deactivate.

[aac]

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.

[majesticmini471]

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.

[Sagitarius]

i would like to use perplexity AI as search engine. maybe for the next release... regards

[majesticmini471]

VETO

[jynxyz]

hell no i hate google for a reason

[majesticmini471]

So true.

[Einhornyordle]

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.

[majesticmini471]

Now DuckDuckGo has Artificial Intelligence? No wonder why all of the search results on their domain have completely sucked, this whole last month and counting. Oracle Java 6.17< and all associates, get lost!

[Wanderdüne]

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 🙂

Btw. I deactivated the icon because it seems to cause issues with other plugins (DeepL, Language tool), so I only used the Right-Click-Menu solution on the selected text (that's the way I prefer anyway).

In summary, I would like to see:

• Create your own menu entries
• Forward to specific GPTs
• Support for “provisional chats” function

Edit: Why has my post received such a strange tag? 😞

[Nobody_of_note]

Try doing some research into the environmental impact of LLM and associated 'ai' products.  If you have a shred of care for the rest of us and the planet our children have to inherit, you'll stop using such wasteful technology. 

In it's current form it should never have been allowed to proliferate, but then corporate profits have always been more important that the people generating those profits.

[black_Salad]

I love this feature. But it feels restricted to the original sidebar button. Just add a button "AI chatbot" that i can place in my toolbar and customize, which will open the same in the sidebar. Other browsers already have AI integration. Its about time firefox got its own. Only for people who need AI.

[black_Salad]

Also a button to expand the chat in a new tab that i can move around.

[7tonsofsalt]

this is like one of the only reasons i would ditch firefox over

[majesticmini471]

You and me, both. The entire Internet is Bull!

[spastic797]

Could the AI sidebar be placed in it's own container? I have a separate container for using AI Chatbots and it would be nice if the sidebar had it's own container or use the container I had already created for AI chatbots.

[jlries61]

Furthermore, it should be an extension so that those who want nothing to do with it don't have to have it.

[OhJeez56]

Frankly I do not want AI in anything, let alone my browser. I think it goes completely against the privacy that Firefox focuses on and holds dearly to have the ability to use such a data hoovering "tool" that is AI chatbots. Please reconsider adding this to our browsers. Is it really worth compromising the end user's privacy with a tech trend that probably is gonna tank in the near future?