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!

[Nobody_of_note]

Privacy isn't the only reason some of us have our udders all a flutter.  Also that's pretty insulting.

You might try reading more and stop relying on destructive services that clearly aren't helping your comprehension.

Look into the environmental impact of these toys, you are contributing to the damage we are doing to the planet.  Damage our children and their children have to try to survive.

[argishure]

Since you're going down that path, why don't we first ban all of TikTok, Reels, Shorts, artificial adult content and any other brain-rot that doesn't benefit humanity? These require hoards of servers that waste computational power.

Shouldn't we all stop eating non-veg because of its environmental impact (& ofcourse the horrible suffering)? It clearly doesn't have much of a benefit since atleast 30% of India (276mil people) seem to be doing fine.

AI has its positives & negatives as everything else. It's in its very early stages, can be hosted locally which consumes a lot less power, will get more efficient with time and will only require lesser power as hardware with better neural training abilities will emerge.

All the big corps aren't brainless to be chasing AI's heinie, they've thought about this a lot more than you. As we advance, any new tech that comes into play will eat up a good amount of energy.

[lackey]

Part 1: whataboutism. Mozilla isn't handing out free McDonald's vouchers, but they are enticing users into harmful crap. Mozilla says they are better than harmful crap. 

Part 2: Big Tech knows best: if you believe this, Google and Microsoft have your back

[argishure]

1) Bruh it's not whataboutism, I'm literally saying everything has its upsides & downsides. Mozilla's enticing nobody, they're just making it more accessible (pretty similar to abortion rights lol). People can try & decide for themselves to see if they find it to be useful or some harmful crap.

2) The heII are you on about. They are not getting any money exploiting us through AI or something, it's literally all their own expense, their own money. They're obviously doing this cuz it will help in their org's growth, we all know they do everything for themselves, and AI everything is for themselves too.

3) Where's this debate going tho? Anything common we both agree on? I'd be fine with this being an add-on with good customizability.

[alittles1lly]

oml pls no ai in fryer fox

[lindissay]

DEFINITELY ABSOLUTELY NEVER NO!

[Zee636]

oh god not here to

[paulmwatson]

I'm glad they're not deeply integrated into Firefox. This means it would be nice if the dropdown allowed for a custom URL or even local mode perhaps running through openwebui.com.

[Deadcow]

Is there a way to add custom prompts to the context menu? Sounds like a killer feature!

My attempts to add it obviously failed (I assume I also need to edit "l10nId" whatever it is to make it to work at least). Also, what are the shortcuts? (I see "browser.ml.chat.shortcuts" are set to true 🤔)

[akiyamka]

You can find guide in the above messages

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nigh...

[SteveTheBoater]

This code should not be in Firefox core at all, enabled or otherwise. No problem with it as an add-on for those who want/need it but it is not required for a browser to function so let's not go there. I'm reminded of Netscape who effectively destroyed themselves by bloating the core product and finally killed it off after pushing Communicator onto users who just wanted a browser. Please don't do this. Reading this thread a lot of us feel the same way and I am one of those who will stop using Firefox if this continues.

[100Cat]

Even if it’s optional, it still isn’t going to be helpful to anyone I believe. Don’t do it!

[AzuretheNerd]

Absolutely no thank you! I don't want to add a sidebar that lazily summarizes something I'd rather read myself. I thought Mozilla had enough respect for their consumers to simply not add in a feature that coddles the exponentially decreasing attention span of the masses, but here we are. Generative AI is not the future.

[Lophis]

Just another feedback.  I really like the feature.  I use chat GPT and it is quite useful.  Request for maybe you can add another privacy layer between Chat client if possible and also add the ability to add whatever chatbox you want b/c there are tons of them. 

[100Cat]

Don’t listen to this guy- chat gpt just eats up data online and spits out whatever- not to mention the data processing center is very bad for the environment. 

[greatwoohoo]

Bloat. Anyone and everyone who is cheering Mozilla for adding "AI" into the browser are google employees and their paid shills.

NOBODY who loves Firefox and wish it well will ever agree to degrade Firefox like this. Whoever came up with adding these kind of junk to the browser should be fired ASAP.

[vxltari]

Stop it already with the AI grift. No one wants this, no one will use this, no one will befenit from this. It is a waste of both your development resources and the world's natural resources. It is a privacy nightmare. It is a flagrant violation of copyright for private interest. It is diminishing people's ability to think critically, to understand information and news, to imagine, to be creative and to solve problems.

You are on the wrong side of history.

[HeatherHerbert]

Can we have a setting to auto-open the sidebar when the browser starts? The current setup makes the functionality no quicker than clicking on the shortcuts on the open page.

[_giorgio_]

Please allow the users to disable it on certain websites... and add it to the standard menu (it should be the same menu that you find when you right click)

[hippilessrich]

cant stand it !

[hippilessrich]

allow a user to completely remove it permanently ! including from all menus !