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!

[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.

[maxdebe]

Hello, a function where i can prompt something myself after right-click would be super great ❤️
Thanks!

[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.

[SCCDev]

Very good, but I missed having a keyboard shortcut to trigger the panel.

[HA]

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.

[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.

[SabreWulf1986]

Funny, every comment supporting this crap sound like easily manipulated people, bots or people who work at NVIDIA.

[carlaprice]

One thing - will the sidebar integration be customizable? I like a clean interface.

[Kaszebe]

Hi, how do we connect Oobabooga to this feature? I think it's great because I don't have to switch tabs.

[Sagitarius]

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

[majesticmini471]

VETO

[Ahalii]

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.

[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.

[essia]

My organization recommends being careful with information typed online, whether in search engines or LLMs. Because I'm a geek, I mostly use local, pretrained models with Ollama. I understand it's a lab option, but only ethical, open and privacy-friendly bots (like some provided in Ollama and Llamafile), identified after careful examination by your AI team, should be offered in Firefox - and why not providing them in a friendly AI-model store!

[rasjonell]

Hey! Is there a way to open the chatbot sidebar with a keyboard shortcut?

[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.

[black_Salad]

And of course, a keyboard shortcut will massively improve the experience!

[FogCM]

I only want it as an extension, not built-in.

Some issues:

- this forum is horrible for getting ideas across. (Old) Reddit's style is so much easier.

- add option to use a popup/overlay instead of taking over the entire sidebar. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to pick the most annoying option. Look at how an extension like Tab Stash does it; it can show information in several different ways. The attachment shows at least three with the top-right pop-up the thing I was referring to.

- hardcoded prompts, even for an experiment, is inexcusable. You can't even set them in about:config.

[7tonsofsalt]

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

[majesticmini471]

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

[muro]

I like the AI sidebar option (opt in and no one gets hurt).

But I'm missing a setting to change it to a custom URL. E.g. in our company we have an explicit ChatGPT instance, and self hosted Meta-Llama. We are only allowed to use those for work.

[cempack]

Would be nice to have Grok too

[Ada3181]

Please don't do this, you would be contributing to the already vast amount of ai services other browsers provide that a majority of people equally don't want or like.

[Gtoviz]

I will stop using Firefox if this happens, and I’ve been a loyal user for decades. 

[ik1]

PLEASE DON'T INTEGRATE AI INTO OUR BROWSERS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[aisisbadmkay]

NO AI IN FIREFOX

[tripplebeans]

very useful for non english speakers as  me..now the problem is I cant hide it as I continue browsing...I have always to go back to settings menu.Thanks

[souljadogg]

I'm using this feature 10-20 times a day and there is a serious problem, when I'm starting dialogue with chatgpt it does not reopens after sidepanel was closed by me or hidden by pressing "show sidepanel" button (it opens from start always, no matter of time), please fix this

[spap]

I am not on board the AI hype train. I choose Firefox in order to avoid big tech collecting users' data as much as I can. And one should not neglect the serious environmental impact of using this technology.

Having said that, I do acknowledge that a limited use of LLMs can be useful in certain cases. As such, I would say that what I would like to see you doing is:

1. Expose and set local LLMs as the default,
2. Provide users an easy way to choose / download llamafiles (with some info on the advantages of using model X over Y etc),
3. Allow users to run llamafiles directly from within the browser,
4. Explicitly warn users about the risks of using other chatbots.

Another couple of details:

1. I would prefer to have a dedicated section with actions when right clicking rather than having to to "Ask localhost" -> "Action",
2. I think "show prompts on text select" can be a bit intrusive and should be off by default,
3. It would also be interesting to have the ability to use this service in a second sidebar.

(Tested on Firefox via Labs - not on Nightly)