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!

[majesticmini471]

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

[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...

[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. 

[stefano]

I tried gemini, it works but it should load in a private container, because I don't want to browse internet while I'm logged in into google. So please add option to load the sidebar gemini in a container.

[argishure]

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[neurocean]

This is such a great feature that I use all the time throughout the day and I appreciate how you enabled a variety of services, similar to your approach to search engines. My feature enhancement request would be a shortcut to be able to go directly to it. Currently I do CMD+B to go to bookmarks then click to AI Chatbot isn't ideal.

Please don't let the pushback from the haters get your down. I have no doubt they were barking when search was added in the address bar too.

Kuddos to your team for adding this!

[lackey]

Please don't use dehumanizing language like comparing people to animals. There is definitely hate, but it's not coming from where you say. 

[mozilla_enjoyer]

I like this feature.  My main issue is when you're using Gemini, and you're trying to summarize a youtube video, it doesn't work unless I manually copy the youtube address and paste it in the chatbox.  You should just pass the address into the chatbot when doing something like summarize or explain, that way Gemini can use its extensions like youtube to pull the data.

[mozilla_enjoyer]

also provide an easier way to leave feedback so I dont have to go to settings > Labs > Leave feedback

[Visnes]

Registered just to say '**bleep** no'. Remove it, never work on it again and feel ashamed. Extremely ashamed

[seniorpro]

ok

[Anonymous]

Personally, I've tried it for a bit but its really not that useful. Most of the time I just don't need an AI for things and if I do, its going to be on a website purpose built for that task not a generic copy-paste of the text I highlight into an LLM. Frankly, at best, it is unnecessary and unhelpful.

[hselaps]

After having this feature activated for 2 months. I must agree. I connected anthropic and the answers are soo bloated (with formatting as well) that they don't even fit in the small side bar window. If I summarize I want to read less not more. The Explain option is not helpful either.
Also the little thing popping up when I select stuff is intuitive but often select stuff on a website just like scribbling on piece of paper.

I'd like to define my own commands and my own prompts.

[ned7000]

AI chatbots are ethically and morally wrong. This should not be an "opt-out" feature. If anything, it should be an "opt-in" feature or even a plugin so that it can be easily uninstalled.

[ned7000]

I will be trying out LibreWolf and Mercury, both downstream builds of Firefox with more focus on privacy and importantly NO AI. They even work with Mozilla sign-in, so everything ports directly from Firefox and works with Firefox mobile, though I'll be trying Mercury Mobile as well. I'm not ready to give up Mozilla, but since this seems to be the direction Firefox is going, I'll be looking at other browsers.

[LeonardoP]

I would like to make my own shortcut, like "explain" but with my personalized text.

[argishure]

1) Go to about:config
2) Search `browser.ml.chat.prompts`
3) Create a new string `browser.ml.chat.prompts.#`, and give it a label (to display in context menu), id & value (the prompt).

[panayiotis]

Can we have Microsoft Copilot also?

[majesticmini471]

NEVER! What good do they ever care?!?!

[CallMeConnor]

*sigh* looking at the given answers, I don't want to add to that - In other words:

I would love to use this feature, it it only had an option to add "custom AI" - e.g. to enable local ollama engines. I don't simply don't like to use any of the preconfigured ones privately. If this chatbot feature was "simply" configurable like the way search engines can be customised, that'd be awesome.

[majesticmini471]

Local Ollama is the only one that my team has ever trusted. They have at least respected users' privacy and accessibility. Yet, today's modern developers do not care for such things! Agree? God help us all!

[lempamo]

AI is an inherent privacy, environmental, copyright, quality, basically EVERYTHING hazard. To go for AI is to forgo the principles that made people come to Firefox in the first place. SHAME ON YOU.

[Nobody_of_note]

Trust me when I say they don't care.  I had a conversation with one of their staff as I was cancelling my donations.  They made it clear it was the path forward so I've moved on as well.  Good riddance and I hope it hurts when the bubble bursts.

[Lesly]

I think it's a cool option regardless of the anti-AI people out there :). What would be nice would be some option to add control over the prompt. I would love to have a "proofread" option, for example, maybe use your own API  eventually along the road.

[Nobody_of_note]

You have an idea of us that isn't true.  I can speak for myself and a large number of backend developers/engineers/architects that I know and work with who want to see AI flourish responsibly.  But the key word is responsibly.

Currently Western companies are throwing as much gpu and by extension power and water usage as they can at AI.  That's not responsible stewardship of the planet.  Something my kids and their kids will suffer for. 

I've seen the benchmarks posted but have no testing of my own, but if the DeepSeek models are half as good as they claim for the reduction in harm...  Well, you start to see why things are happening as they do.

I want AI to make all of our lives better, but I'm not selfish enough to want to cash my children's futures for it, nor anyone else's children's. 

[Manchester100]

The Ctrl Alt X keyboard shortcut is already in use.

Even if I turn off the AI sidebar in settings it still opens up automatically if I use that shortcut to get to my other, more desirable, application, Notion.

[Manchester100]

Just to follow up... This shortcut is still enabled and calls up the chatbot even if I remove Firefox Labs via the configuration settings and clear the cache!

[Elle]

Please integrate https://chat.deepseek.com/ 

[majesticmini471]

Would it not be better if artificial intelligence was provided by your very own service? For instance, it is why Ollama is the only one that my team trusts. It runs by users' computers, not the Internet and big-wigs. On a separate note, may the Lord bring peace and justice to each of you. Jesus Christ came for everyone, not just anybody.

[HeresMyFeedback]

I've never before cared enough about anything Mozilla did with the browser to make an account and post.

Well here I am now, because doing one tiny thing is better than doing nothing.

I don't want ANY generative AI integration befouling my browser, FLAT. Not 'optional' or even 'opt in'. It's grotesque. It's unethical. It's wasteful. It's actively harmful. It's as if all the big tech companies were super hyped about a new feature which gives their users cancer, and Mozilla was like "well we'd better at least let our users opt in to getting a little bit of cancer. Everyone's doing it!"

What on earth is the dev team thinking? Mozilla has much better things it could be doing with its resources. This is unacceptable. It's a disgrace.

[forthesnakes]

Couldn't have said it better myself. I used my laptop's last few dregs of battery while away from home to do the same because this is just nightmarish.

[zackc]

I thought I had done everything I could to disable this, but buried in the (new?) "Firefox Labs" settings section, I found it enabled. It feels really gross to not even just not ask, but forcibly turn this on for users.

Edit: I just noticed OP's post says "It is not built into any core functionality and needs to be turned on by you to see it."

That's a lie.

[Nobody_of_note]

It wasn't at the time, but as I predicted back a few months ago .. now it is.  Before too much longer you won't be able to turn it off. 

[tea23]

Please remove it. Mozilla does not need to invest in A"I".

A"I" in its current form is wasting electricity and contributing to climate change, with absolutely 0 gain, as generative A"I" has no valid use cases. Please do not engage in willful environmental destruction.

[zy]

a little outside the subject, but even if i'm totally against generative AI, that is wrong to say there is no valid use case. Most use of it is to fake something, but I know it can be used to search something that can't be translated to keywords. But of course, if that was the main use of generative AI, that would've been a long time we would have way more optimized and respectful of privacy tools

[go_awai]

So, anyone got a list of domains to block in my firewall to stop this from working?

[Nobody_of_note]

I don't, but I would warn that there are technologies they will eventually use to make that type of blocking much more difficult, like the ad/ad-blocker arms race.

[mercenaryofoz]

can we get a hotkey to toggle the AI chatbar on and off