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!

[lewismac]

Please add Ollama or at least "Open AI Compatible" custom end points so we don't have to rely on third parties.

[marital_skintig]

At least add Kagi Assistant 🙄. Contrary to those included by default in this experiment, that one does respect users privacy: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html#privacy

[hoh]

How can I use this tool with Mozilla Llamafile or another local LLM ?

I find it very weird that only proprietary cloud services are available when Mozilla defends privacy and open-source, and develops its own local LLM software 🤨

[Lexyo]

I think it's useful

[Visnes]

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

[seniorpro]

ok

[seniorpro]

**bleep** no

[Lion]

 Get it out of my browser.

I have it turned off, but I see a gross lack of clarity on Mozilla's approach to AI as a whole here. I am unclear if I have completely opted out or just hidden the chatbot. How can Mozilla claim to be building a "more trustworthy AI" while integrating the worst ethical and informational offenders? Is any of my data being used for training just by way of my using Firefox at all?

[asimplebirdmoth]

no ai. yall are like the few ppl without ai. no ai.

[photex]

Please abort mission. NO AI

[NOXY]

I'm really sorry, but this is stupid. Why integrate a bloat instead of giving the ability to add sites to the sidebar manually as Vivaldi does... It only makes sense if those "AI" companies gave you money to do so…

[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.

[timonr]

There needs to be a way for me to quickly open and hide the ai sidebar with a shortcut.

Eg i use the bitwarden extension with a extension shortcut to open it in the sidebar: alt + shift + y. We need the same option to set a shortcut for the ai sidebar

[timonr]

Please add X's grok as an ai chatbot option. thy so much.

[ThatDude3000]

GTFO with this spyware GPT

[MrSom3body]

Now that Orbit has been released, why not integrate that into this feature? It's the only imho that even makes to integrate that tightly if you're really trying to be privacy respecting

[M00nie]

Please don't add any kind of AI to your browser, i love firefox but this is making me way less interested in it and might just switch to some other browsers if AI keeps getting shoved into it. NO AI, PLEASE.

[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.

[Kotep]

It is not a helpful addition to Firefox and I didn't have to turn it on to see it. I suppose AI and lying go hand in hand.

[Kotep]

To provide a little more helpful feedback about my experience, the key combination that's used to open the sidebar will automatically enable the AI sidebar. This is a problem, as I've already bound that key combination to a function in one of my addons.

Negative behavior: I uncheck the option, hit the ctrl-alt-X combo, and the sidebar opens and the option re-checks itself.

Expected behavior: If I uncheck the option, I don't want to use it, and the key combination remains available.

[coldknees]

No, it is not a "helpful addition to Firefox", it's garbage. GenAI is theft, it has a huge negative affect on the environment (for no benefit), it's flooding the internet with crap and contributing in a big way to the ensh*tification of the internet in general.
Get rid of it, & if you ever make it a default part of the browser/ take away the option to turn it off I will not be using Firefox any longer.

[lewismac]

You probably would have protested mechanised agriculture, and continued to ride horseback to protest the automobile. How did you even write this comment? Are you not disgusted by the impact your modern, technological life has on the environment?

[coldknees]

Modern agriculture & cars have benefitted humanity such that that (imo) outweighs the harm they cause the environment (at least to a degree). GenAI is an active harm to humanity & is not some amazing advancement that will benefit us in a comparable way to agriculture & cars.

I will not be replying to this thread again. You're completely incorrect, presumptuous & outright rude. 
If you want people to have discussions with you online you should consider learning to speak to others with some decency.

[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).

[probablywrong]

Just want to recommend that you all add DuckDuckGo's AI tool. It already allows you to select which AI you'd like to use, but it's private, doesn't contribute to training, and doesn't create a profile. It's just a better option in every way than any of the current ones offered here.

[argishure]

The problem is that they're only supporting the chatbots that allow the `?q=` parameter in their URL. ?q= can be used to pass text directly from the URL but sadly DuckAI doesn't support it.

See this

[probablywrong]

Appreciate the link, didn't know we could set custom ones. Yeah, I definitely see that passing along with the tooltip doesn't work but to be honest, most of the time when I'm highlighting text, it's not to ask AI something, it's just to copy it or something else mundane, so that's a feature I disabled anyway.

But having Duck.AI in my sidebar now and letting me open in it a panel is genuinely very helpful so I'm still super happy about it. Mozilla should really allow you to set any custom website to open in panels, not just pre-approved AI models.

[argishure]

Try the add-on Webpage Sidebar, it does just that and is very lightweight.

[tilwiti]

lol split screen

[Zidax]

I would appreciate this if they could add a shortcut key to show and hide the chatbot. It would be very helpful on my end if Firefox could add that shortcut key.

[sorgel]

I’ve discovered a keyboard shortcut conflict between the bookmark extension I use and the raindrop.io app. I’d like to be able to change AI service shortcut.

[YovickRZ]

Grok deserves a place here

[YovickRZ]

We need a command to show and hide the chatbot, but the idea of the integrate AI in firefox is very cool!

[chodyho]

Love, love, love the accessibility of ChatGPT and the ability to highlight text with the correlating prompt box that shows up. My only gripe is that when you hit enter in the sidebar, it adds a space to your prompt question when it should submit the question. If I want to add another space, I can do the normal [Shift]+[Enter] key. That's the functionality on ChatGPT, and it should be mirrored here.

Also, as others have pointed out, there should be hotkey to hide/show the sidebar.

[Ruben89]

No please no.

I use Firefox because it is a privacy-respecting 'honest' browser.

I don't think the former is compatible with integrating AI-chatbots into Firefox.

If (any) users want it why not publish it as addon/extension?

[Nunder]

Mientras el contenido sea opcional y la ia no tenga forma de acceder a las paginas en vivo o leer ventanas, etc. no venga por defecto activado como google.
Acabo de elegir este navegador como predeterminado para mis cuentas, seria muy hilarante que mañana me vaya.

[condobloke]

I would love the access icon for Claude to be in the toolbar...somewhere in the general vicinity of the 'open application menu' icon.

Gives easy access for those who have no use for a sidebar