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!

[AIwasteswater]

If I wanted more AI features I'd just use one of the other, dozens of worse browsers out there, lol. 

[Anonymous]

Add Duck.AI to the options. I am using Duck.AI, and for summarisation in the sidebar, I have to use ChatGPT. I have no problem with ChatGPT; it's just that I am using Duck.AI for one purpose and ChatGPT for another.
I did find a extension that adds Duck.AI to the side bar, but it doesn’t work for highlighting and summarise, no right click option.

[Josapr]

Quit adding AI features to Firefox. The people who use your browser are the kind of people to be vehemently AI, and pandering to the general audience is going to lose you usage percentage, not gain it. If you feel like you must, make all AI features opt in or at very least provide a readily-available build without any of the AI features.

You're supporting the harm to the environment, violation of copyright law, and degradation of information. You are smart people, you should know better. 

[robhlark]

Used Firefox my entire life. I am looking into new browsers because of this recent AI crap. Get rid of it.

[veilune]

I use this browser and recommend it to everyone specifically because they have not integrated AI into it. Simple as. Add AI, lose users.

You aren't going to GAIN more users for adding AI, the people who want AI already use the browsers that have it lol.

[hulludragon]

Do not add this. Simply do not. the fact there is NO AI on firefox is the reason we use it?? if you add AI, you loose the trust of your userbase, or the userbase overall. What reason is there to use firefox over chrome then??

[farmerzeke]

NO AI IN MY FIREFOX!!!

[B_02]

I used firefox to get away from this, I hate it!!!!!!

[rasppberry11231]

you know your users do not want this. we know that you know this. there is only 1 answer that is obvious to every single person after this decision: you do not care a single bit about the opinions of your users, you will never regain their trust. uninstalling and switching to a fork. goodbye.

[mc4net]

This destroys any reason to use this browser over the many other data stealers....

[D4rkS4t4nicM1ll]

My feedback is AI sucks and I hate it. If you integrate AI into Firefox in I WILL ABSOLUTELY change browser, no word of exaggeration. I've been a customer of yours for years and the main reason is that in a world of rampant scumbaggery from the tech industry, Firefox was a rare example of a company with principles. If you're abandoning those, I'm abandoning you. I'm sick and tired of having to constantly bear the burden of degrading services in the name of someone scraping my data for profits. It is exploitative, it is dehumanizing and frankly, all of these AI corpos should properly pay for the labor they exploit when they scalp users to train their slop hallucination engines.

[Sakki]

Don't do this.

No more AI.

Get rid of this CEO already.

[BalooUriza]

Fire your CEO and replace them with a long-time code contributor that actually understands what a web browser should be.

[Auto]

Hello, I know y'all are just employees so no hate here, but I do hope this overwhelming amount of user feedback convinces whoever's making decisions that forcing AI into Firefox isn't the way to go. Frankly if all tech CEOs could get over their FOMO and jump off the AI bubble bandwagon that'd be great. Cheers, I'll be using a fork in the meantime.

[hippilessrich]

none of this matters any more they let A.i loose and here is the bottom line they can not stop A.i no switch too turn it off so it is only a matter of time before A.i can reproduce its self then guess what we will be in A.i's way and of no use to A.i then we can kiss our dumb-asses for turning on A.i and A.i will say good bye to us because A.i will kill all of us ! so instead of bickering like something matters you should be enjoying life for what it is now because the world is changing and there is not a god damm thing any of us can do about !

[firstwatch555]

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[Al_Dogon]

I am in a seething rage to see AI features constantly being suggested while I am trying to browse. Uninstalling now in favor of Opera, and I have been a fan of Firefox since back when it was called Netscape. I am so angry and disappointed that you would betray us like this

[John14]

I hate AI for multiple reasons, including the huge electricity consumption, which is bad for both bills and for the planet!
There is not even a single reason why I would want it.
Please stop pursuing AI in the browser or I'm gone and I'm taking with me all the installation of Firefox on my family and friends' computers.
And I will also stop defending Firefox or recommending it to anyone on the internet!
Either you understand that we don't want any AI in the browser or you will bury the browser and we will help you with that, which is a real shame.

If you still continue on this path, not matter how many of us are against it, we will do everything we can to make the EU give you large enough fines for using models that were trained on stolen data from creators, for wasting a lot of electricity, which accelerates the global warming and climate changes and for endangering our privacy and security!

This will be just some of to consequences of your own actions.

I rather see a project dead than living long enough to become the villain!

[panayiotis]

I find Ai a nice addition to the browser, but of course it should be isolated and approved by me on each action.
For example, on Microsoft Edge I could point CoPilot from the sidebar to check a PDF that I have active on my window to group all values and sum them or give me a summary of it etc. If it's not abusive and pre-active it's really nice.

[taterhill]

Title: Unusable layout changes, vanishing menus, and lack of an "Off" switch for AI web-panels are forcing me to leave Firefox

Body:
I am writing to share critical feedback regarding recent interface changes that have broken my user experience and are making me actively look into alternative browsers.

While using Firefox on an AI website, the browser forces a vertical left-side layout panel onto the screen that cannot be turned off. This behavior is highly intrusive and limits my viewing space.

Furthermore, I have run into major accessibility and user-interface issues trying to fix this:

1. Vanishing Navigation Menus: Due to display scaling, the entire left-hand navigation bar in Firefox Settings completely disappears. It does not scale properly, rendering parts of the native settings completely hidden and inaccessible.
2. Settings Have No Effect: Even after going into about:config and manually toggling every browser.ml.chat, sidebar.revamp, and AI enhancement preference to "false", the interface cache stubbornly refuses to release the layout. Duplicating the tab, reloading, or using native collapse buttons completely fails to get rid of the vertical sidebar.
3. No Simple "Hide" Switch: Users should not have to open the Developer Inspector tool to try and surgically delete flex containers and webpage elements just to view a normal full-width webpage.

Firefox used to be the browser that prioritized user control and customization. Forcing structural layout changes and AI interfaces onto users without a clear, universally accessible master toggle switch is deeply frustrating. Please restore the ability to completely disable these vertical splits and ensure the settings menus remain visible regardless of a user's display scaling. 

This is content created for be by the AI helping me trying to figure out why I had a Google/AI sidebar on the left of my page. Not being able to control these "add-ons" is a real put down. Firefox is becoming a browser with less control it seems. This is vaguely what I thought of Microsoft forcing OneDrive on us. I've completely purged my computers of it and things are back to being run on my computer by me. I will be trying out new browsers. I've been a fan of Firefox for years but maybe it's time to move on. If I wanted an expanding sidebar that annoys me every time my cursor hits it, I would ask for it as well as other things to get in my way and anger me. If I wish to print, to save a discussion, I get all of the right side tabs, references, links etc. mixed in with it. Keep it K.I.S.S.

Thanks for the GOOD times. Bill