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!

[spap]

Coming back to the idea of setting local LLMs as the default for anyone interested in using them and specifically integrating llamafiles within Firefox, I would like to see a complete management solution like a special settings section where:

1. llamafiles are organized by categories e.g., "text", "image" etc,
2. each model comes with a description of its capabilities,
3. I can download, remove and possibly update llamafiles (for example keeping the same base model but using a different version as they are organized currently on Hugging Face).

[majesticmini471]

Exactly! Was Firefox2.0 not based upon C++, Perl4>, and Ruby, if any other language, before 2007's ginormous corruption? Users and local servers lost so many rights and programs, right afterward. Firefox 3.6.9 was even spectacular, but has Mozilla and all illegal corporations associated not wanted to make all of Firefox go Oracle Java6< and .Net3< and Python3< and Swift3<? It would be the same as Chrome (Fome), Edge, Opera, Safari, and their insane descendants.

[spastic797]

Could DuckDuckGo AI Chat be added? Or add a way to specify a custom AI Chat Bot.

[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.

[spastic797]

The 'Prompt on text select' is too easy to misclick. It's also visually jarring to see the icon pop up whenever I select text. I prefer accessing those options through the context menu (the menu opened with a right click).

[mattisafur]

New shortcut for the chatbot is causing issues with my password manager. Tried disabling the sidebar in the settings but it keeps popping up when pressing CTRL+SHIFT+L.

I think it's a pretty bad shortcut because a lot of password managers use it for autofill.

Opened a report on Bugzilla #1927324 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1927324

[adrianlondon]

This needs to be fully disable-able.

At the moment, I turn it off in settings, try to get Bitwarden to work, but you've hijacked the keyboard combo and instead automatically re-enable this AI thing and then pop it up.

Either allow the keyboard shortcut to be disabled, or this entire feature to be disabled.  At the moment, you've blocked that - as you allow a keyboard shortcut to enable it and immediately run it, even if turned off in settings.  (With no hint of shortcut keys.)

[Kaoru]

I didn't care about this feature until you took the Ctrl+Shift+L I always use on my password manager for this feature. But it is a HARD NO for me!

[seateaeye]

This has been mapped to an annoying shortcut and activates on its own, even if I uncheck the box. Please fix this.

[Absolutely]

I started using Firefox as an alternative to Google Chrome about a year ago. It was smooth at first, but something changed.

My first real issue, STOP with the constant updates! (Yes, I disable automatic updates because I read them first). If you have security updates, don't package them behind experimental (dumb) add-ons.

LLM development inside Firefox, over just an extension looks bad in my eyes. Why? because it seems like you just want to collect people's data so you can yourself become another one of those types of companies (Google, Facebook).

On this same topic, I continuously see warnings and/ or highly negative comments based around implementing LLMs, but Firefox ignores those comments, Why?

Why give users votes, if you're not going to use them? This isn't a video game forum where you can easily blind people with gimmicks. People will see the bull s h i t.

I call on Firefox to not automatically contain large language models, unless the individual downloads it directly as a feature. It shouldn't automatically be contained in the Firefox browser by default, but as a separate download.

I came here to get away from all the fake labeling of artificial intelligence, because it's not actually intelligent.

Mozilla is playing a very dangerous game here with LLMs. If someone leaves Google for Firefox, they would happily leave Firefox for less.

[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?

[majesticmini471]

What does Mozilla, Corp. or any big-wig corporation care for their clients' terms, anymore?

[BrazenBunnies]

Use a very obscure keyboard shortcut to pull up the window. It currently uses Ctrl+Shift+L which is one I use all the time and now I need to adjust my muscle memory for a feature that re-enables itself every time I press the keyboard shortcut.

[Darkfangs]

I use Taskade which integrates ChatGPT and think that could be a very interesting partnership.

[reetp]

More junk and bloatware I don't need.

For those who want AI go off to a seach engine or website and play but don't embed more junk in the browser. Totoaslly unnecessary, apart from the fact that AI is far from 'Intelligent' and is barely pre -Alpha market hyped machine learning crud.

I'd rather you spent some figuring out the H265 scenario so we can play videos again than on this meaningless nonsense, and keep up to date with config settings so we can disable them easily across our network widewith policies instead of introducing features with no EASY way to to disable them as is current policy.

[gameray]

A shortcut for opening and closing would be nice

[BrazenBunnies]

ctrl+shift+L, which sucks

[argishure]

This doesn't work for me though? Are you using Glarity by any chance?

[yoyoyoyo]

I can see it being useful for School but please add a shortcut to toggle it, otherwise it is mostly in the way. If you add support for local LLMs like llama 3 I might actually consider using it, since I don't want to use any of the built in alternatives.

[SUCH_Ian_72]

😁Hi Asafko, Good day from Goonellabah, NSW, Australia.
I use GROKE on X and Grammarly. I can not spell and grammar something else. I applied to NASA in 1974 to be an astronaut in the Apollo Space Program. I became an engineer.

I am embarking on a significant six-month journey. I'll be circumnavigating Australia in two CYBERTRUCKs and a Tesla Semi, covering a substantial 22,000 kilometres. This journey is set to commence at the beginning of February 2025. Elon shall help me.

I will raise a minimum of AU$1,800.000.00. Those who have helped me the people and companies:

1. Nurses and Doctors
2. Base Hospital and Ballina Rehabilitation Hospital
3. NSW Ambulance Service—By the end of 2027, Australia will have Tesla Optimus robots and Robovan to ambulances in 2029.
4. All my friends who are worse than me and people who have helped me. Lismore GSAC Baths.
5. Neuralink will help those who are worse off than me. I shall take two Tesla Optimus robots. We are getting 30 Tesla Optimus robots for Northern Coast NSW by 2026. I had a stroke on 4 July 2019. My wife, Kate, saved me. I am now swimming 120 lengths, 25m, at Goonellabah Pool, which has a total length of 3,000m, three times a week. I will swim in 25 m and 50 m pools when circumnavigating Australia. We shall have them for the disabled and elderly to help them in their homes or for anybody who will use them for any task they cannot do. They will be more intelligent than most people.

Ian Cleland

[gracklecracklep]

hey i used this browser to Not have to deal w AI please dont do this xoxoxo

[argishure]

1) An option to separate its cookies so that it can be kept separate from our account or even run it like incognito. For example I already have my account logged in to ChatGPT and HuggingChat, and they are the only ones that allow chatting without creating an account. So any page translation/summary I do using them creates a new chat in my account, which creates a LOT of chats and becomes a struggle to manage.

2) An option to create a custom shortcut to open/close the Chatbot sidebar (or just provide us with a shortcut).

My Firefox version: 132.0 (64-bit)

[alt_squared]

This is a horrible feature that no one needs directly in-browser. Add it as an official extension if you must, but GenAI's ethical, environmental and privacy issues place it directly opposite the Mozilla manifesto. Remove this feature. You'll lose a lot of users if you do this.