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!

[marax]

I'd like a "translate" shortcut or at the very least the ability to add additional shortcuts. I often find myself having to quickly translate short snippets of text and ai is so much better than google translate, then I can get rid of my google translate extension.

[Maldefekt]

No, absolutely not. You are the last bastion of sanity in this ai-saturated internet. PLEASE stay ai-free. 

[Einmaliger]

I absolutely love this feature and always keep the sidebar open. Ideally, I’d love to see additional LLMs included—especially DeepSeek—as well as the option to integrate self-hosted models in the future.

[Lutz]

I don't agree with enabling this feature in Firefox 135. I explicitly disabled it in 134 and after the current update, it is suddendly enabled. Please don't do this.

[droterm]

this feature if it wold allow me to use my own endpoint would allow me to switch over to firefox 100%.

[AIHATERFOREVER]

AND YES I REALLY DID CREATE AN ACCOUNT JUST TO GIVE THIS FEEDBACK.

[Dabirs]

Please remove this garbage.
I had 'ctrl+alt+x' shortcut allocated to an action on one of my add-ons, and now it turns chatbot panel on which is highly annoying. Furthermore, disabling AI chatbot in my settings doesn't work because as soon as I hit this shortcut again, it turns the panel back on and enabling chatbot back on in my settings.
At least give us an option to disable this crap for good.
Currently considering migrating back to another browser.

[twessels]

It's very annoying that there seems to be no effective way to disable this new chatbot sidebar. Recently, it has taken over the keyboard shortcut CTRL + ALT + X, which I use for something else. I've tried everything to disable this AI chatbot, including through about:config, but as soon as I press CTRL + ALT + X, it gets activated again.

Is there any effective way to get rid of this chatbot window and, most importantly, the keyboard shortcut?

[Hipz]

Please add DeepSeek-V3 model as one of the chatbots. It's free and open source. Goes hand-in-hand with your policy

[j12]

These things are honestly kind of fun to play with, but I don't need them built into every single web site or application. It's impressive how knowledgeable they seem as long as you don't ask them about something about which you are knowledgeable. The world probably doesn't need an infinite firehose that simulates a person that just makes stuff up that sounds right and doesn't care about whether it is accurate or not.

[Wyrade]

The default keybind ctrl+alt+x does not work on some keyboard layouts, and I don't see where I could change its keybind.

(For example, on my keyboard layout ctrl+alt+x, equivalent to altgr+x, results in a #, and that takes priority over triggering the keybind of firefox. If I switch to english layout the keybind works.)

[kepstin]

I found this option in a non-Nightly Firefox build, *enabled by default*.

I don't want this. I don't want this enabled by default.

I am semi-supportive of some of the individual "ai" based features that Firefox is able to run entirely locally with small models, like the translation support and potentially image description support, but there is no world in which it makes sense for Firefox to have a builtin feature to direct users to LLM chatbot services hosted externally, especially those hosted by companies with questionable privacy policies.

[Icarus]

I really, really do not like the ai features. they're basically useless and waste far too many resources from our earth.

[no_username]

keep ai out of firefox. it is not welcome here

[00021]

There is a serious bug with this feature: the Ctrl+Alt+X shortcut key is being used, even if the browser. references. experimental is turned off, it will still be enabled by this shortcut key, and other extensions cannot use this shortcut key

[moz_user]

I personally don't think this is a terrible idea, I'd rather have the vetting done by Firefox.

• That said I'd like an obvious way to opt in and out if and when this is baked into the main branch. And also better language around when the data is sent to the LLM providers- is OpenAI able to see all the data I can see on a web page at all times, or is it only the highlighted section that's sent when I hit the summarize button.
  • I would think it's the latter since I can see the chat log in the ChatGPT app but better communication in the FAQ would be good.
• A hotkey to open and close the sidebar without a prompt would be useful
• If I want to summarize a whole page- say the documentation of a function in a library, or an article is there a neat way to do this without a) selecting all the text on the page b) bundling the entire document as a text prompt (which pollutes the chat history). Perhaps one of the new "Agent" AIs have access to individual webpages instead of performing a web search

[brnzika10]

Where is deepseek r1, qwen 2.5max etc

[MollyNoise]

                                                                                              anathema

                                                                                kill this

[forthesnakes]

I didn't think the Firefox logo was meant to represent the company's commitment to contributing to the devastating effects of global warming on the planet. This sucks. Firefox is the only browser I use for a reason--it's because I expect you to not do this kind of thing.

[eljoel]

No. Remove AI from Firefox.

[Reygle]

I think you'll find few Firefox users who want this.  I personally think this should be removed with an apology for being completely tone-deaf to why users use this application.

[MechaCrash]

Please keep the planet-burning plagiarism engine out of Firefox. It is dumb garbage that sucks and NOBODY WANTS THIS TRASH.

[rgooler_fs]

1. I don't want this on by default
2. This is dangerous to enable by default for people using Firefox in regulated industries, such as healthcare.
3. Mapping this to ctrl + x for mac users is a terrible idea, as thats a frequent typo for people who use OSX part time, and windows or linux as well.

[DianAria]

echoing the top comment to say NO. i switched to firefox to get away from data collection bull**bleep** like this: implementing "AI" will destroy my lingering trust in mozilla

[vlchen91]

I really do not appreciate that ctrl+x still opens up the AI chatbot, even if it is disabled. Rather, ctrl+x just enables it, which is not what I want, as I already had ctrl+x mapped to another shortcut, which now doesn't work anymore.

If this isn't disabled/removed, I sadly have to stop using Firefox 😕

[jhow]

Please make the shortcut something that is not ctrl+alt+x. It messes up the Google Docs keyboard shortcut for spell check.

[IAmNobody]

Please add DuckDuckGo AI to Firefox. If you're going to add AI it should be a private one with no training on your conversations, or at least add it to the list of options to choose from.

[go_awai]

Wow, now there are no good internet browsers left that don't do AI and/or Crypto.

[go_awai]

This technology is also used to undermine democracy by spreading misinformation and starting arguments online. You're choosing to be a part of it. History will judge you eventually. I will judge you now. 

You can still stop it. It's in your hands.

[ooooo]

nobody wants this

[Fortyseven]

If this had Ollama support (and they ability to pick the model), then this would be super useful. As-is, locked into a cloud-based service: zero interest.

[AI-NoThankYou]

I'm thoroughly disappointed that such a contentious enhancement has been rolled out to everywhere I use Firefox without a clear, explicit and specific permission being required. I expected more of you, I am not your data harvesting source, I am a person with rights, thoughts and feelings.

[argishure]

The Ctrl+Alt+X keyboard shortcut doesn't work for English (India) keyboard. It does work for the English (US) keyboard although I like to use the English (India) one. Can you tell a solution for this?

If this could be released as an add-on that would help people set their own shortcuts, though idk if it would be able to send the title of the page to the chatbot then but I think Mozilla's own add-on might be capable of that. A lot of people would love this as an add-on please look into it. (I didn't like Orbit)

[user0]

Would love a keyboard shortcut to open/close the sidebar

[administrator2]

So far pretty good. I have a request - Can you link/integrate ai chatbot feature to appear also as a search engine? Reason being we can easily send requests to AI from address bar with "ai" or symbol "~ or something?" used as keyword.

* search can route to preferred ai chatbot
* can use search keywords to invoke ai
* quicker shortcut workflow (ctrl+N) instead of (ctrl+Alt+X)

[pdelrot]

Bonjour, I found "by chance" the Chatbot AI setting. Big inconvenience, I was not aware of it. I disabled it.
I don't need it, I don't want to test it. For personal reasons, ecological reasons...

A good pratice to encourage is to warn and ask all the users if they want to have this kind of AI feature or not. I accepted the "experiments" but I'd like to be aware of.

AI yes, but not for unuseless things.
AI for translating a page in another langage could be usefull and improve human interactions and sharing.
AI as typing replacement is a nightmare, I saw that in MS Teams for example, to suggest me answers. In programming suggestions are  disturbing.

Using Netscape/Firefox since near 20 years, thanks for the past work,
Pascal

[Heavyboots]

Can we just never, ever in any way have Spicy Autocomplete in Firefox, please?

Or at the very least, add a "Disable All AI" checkbox in the user prefs and leave it disabled by default?

[user_68]

What's wrong with functional database searches.  I can always find what I need with them.
AI?  Nope, too much superfluous nonsense.  And of course the abuse of copyright, including voice, and photos, without consent in an effort to make it "the norm". 
Toddler parrot AI does not embody the cuteness or the innocence of an endearing manipulative three year old like the efforts to encourage us to relate to it in that way.

[Francesco17]

I'm using it a lot, it's awesome! Thanks for your efforts, I hope one day I can collaborate with you to make Firefox even bigger and better❤️

[FCK-AI]

Time to abandon Firefox as yet another AI tainted burning trash heap...