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]

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

[tcf]

No thanks.

[oDaniel]

Could you please add Perplexity there? Maybe other search engines as well. Also, if you do add a search engine, it would be useful to open the result inside the same "container". Like, basically have two tabs side by side.

[kgbkgbkgb]

When right-clicking a link, please have it summarize the content of the url and not the current page im on.

(this is so i dont have to enter every headline to have it summarized)

[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.

[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.

[wwahammy]

I just had a chatbot suggested to me when I highlighted something on a page.

I truly do not understand you folks. AI is so clearly DESPISED by software engineers... you know, the people who use your software.

[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. 

[thisisfroggie]

I don't want LLM slop in my browser. And I definitely don't want it to send everything I type to it to 3rd party servers elsewhere. This feature can be replaced by a regular browser tab in any of the chatbot websites instead.

This is promoting something that is a privacy hazard, an environmental risk, and only generates useless made up information.

The only way it could be remotely acceptable and even barely aligned with Mozilla values would be if it only had models that ran in the device itself, like you did for the automatic page translation. Otherwise, it is actively harmful in every single way.

If this ever becomes something I can't opt out of, I will stop using Firefox.

[irom1]

I would love to see perplexity.ai as an option!