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!

[paulmwatson]

In no way do I want a baked in Firefox feature to send website context to a 3rd party system. We have extensions that can do that with user consent and control.

[hselaps]

Totally agree. The browser is basically an operating system within the operating system. Without AI support most of the internet won't be usable any longer and so integration of AI automation/ actions in the browser first hand would be great.
I love firefox and the privacy first attitude behind it and I want to see it prolong into the modern way of working.

[lackey]

What parts of the internet are you visiting that are unusable without AI?!

[Nobody_of_note]

Unfortunately there are a lot of people that can barely understand anything above a 6th grade reading level and need to have things dumbed down so they have a shot at understanding.

Not realizing how destructive that all is, is just part of their ignorance.

[paulmwatson]

Deleted by poster.

[MrRobot59]

Please add Ollama for privacy  😁

[hselaps]

Hi, I love the new feature and firefox as well ofc. I was wanting a simple feature like "mark text"->"ask questions / summarize it" for a couple of weeks now. Looking forward to have this feature integrated in the reader view as well.

I'm missing an extra toolbar button to quickly switch between my TreeStyleTab sidebar view and the chat. plz.

[RudneyViana]

Hey, personally, I like the new feature, but I would like it even more if there were more AI options and the navigation menu at the top was removed. In the future, it might be great to add social interfaces to the sidebar 😁.

 

[4s]

Please don’t add AI features please do not do it. 

all AI has done is inconvenience me and it’s environmentally harmful. 

[jptncde]

This is fine as long as it can be switch on/off

[Platinium]

I think it's really cool that AI is being integrated into browsers! I understand that some people might be a bit wary, but you don't have to use it if you don't want to. I don't get all the negative feedback.

Personally, I use it a lot, especially for translating. It's definitely more convenient than DeepL or Google Translate.

Of course, the integration isn't perfect. I added the shortcut "Show side panels" to my favorites bar, but it takes me straight to my bookmarks.

It would be awesome to be able to use language models (LLMs) directly on your computer, especially since there are so many free ones available. It would allow for even more customization.

[ab2]

Quick thought: do **bleep**ing not do this. **bleep** AI. gross ass **bleep**. what are you, a cop?

[slushieskank]

Hey Mozilla, don't do this.

[Nauga]

Generative AI is not just a sociocultural problem, but an economical and ecological problem. It drains lakes of water to cool the servers used for these programs, and emits more CO2 than even a Captain Planet villain would. NO to generative AI.

Upscaling tools, screen-readers, and accessibility and QOL features are more along the lines of what I'll accept when it comes to AI, but not scrapers and thieves, nor the patently wrong information AI search results have given us. Be smart about this, guys.

[LetMeCopy]

Allow me to select text or I will stop using anything that doesn't. 

Can someone explain to me why developers are trying to get text to not be copy capable.

[Nobody_of_note]

They don't want you to steal the work they've already stolen.

[argishure]

This is a problem with the sites in sidebar, not with the chatbots I believe. But yeah I agree, fix text selection and enter button.

[waterskr]

I just made Firefox my default browser solely because it doesn't incorporate AI at all. Please don't add it -- I don't care if it's optional or not. I don't want it.

[Lexyo]

Why? what's the problem if it's just turned off?
A.I. is a revolution and if you don't want to embrace it you don't have to push away others from using it

[Nobody_of_note]

A revolution of what? 

Glorified auto complete, that is prone to hallucination and outright fabrication, powering through natural resources on its march to what... Give bad summaries to people who arent able to understand the source material?  Create bland images for people with no artistic talent? 

What use do you see that's revolutionary?

[lewismac]

Oh, wow, what a visionary critique! A revolution of what, you ask? Clearly, just a glorified autocomplete, huh? Because, obviously, the ability to instantly access and synthesize information from the entirety of human knowledge is just so... mundane.

Hallucination and fabrication, you say? Like how humans never make mistakes or spread misinformation, right? And those natural resources? Yeah, because no other industry or technology ever consumes resources for their "revolutionary" advancements.

Bad summaries, you mention? Oh, please, because everyone has the time and expertise to read every piece of literature in existence. And those bland images? How dare we assist those without "artistic talent" – art should be gatekept, of course!

What use is revolutionary? I guess only if it fits your narrow view of what revolution should look like. But hey, thanks for the insightful commentary on how we're just spinning our digital wheels here. Bravo.

[Nobody_of_note]

I think we both agree you are the one making extraordinary claims and backing it with nothing but marketing blurbs. 

You've shown you have no desire to back up what you say, so this'll be the last I respond to you.

[lewismac]

No one is forcing you crybabies to use AI. It is off by default.

Please stop moaning and please let the rest of us enjoy the fruits of the future.

Feels like I am on reddit right now ith the amount of soyboy salt flying around.

P.s. you just replied to a comment generated by Grok, and you never noticed.
Egg on your face 😉

[lackey]

AI is destroying the environment. How do I "opt out" of that? Just because you support corporate profits over human well-being doesn't mean I want to share in the resulting misery. 

[Nobody_of_note]

People like that, the ones that try to dunk on you by using AI slop, not realizing that what came out said nothing, are not capable of seeing the relationship.  Their toy does their analysis, conclusion, and gives text that if you don't read it critically, can fool you into thinking these have any kind of intelligence.

Leaving those of us that care to try to continue the fight.

[lewismac]

Yeap you caring guys just keep on fighting. I'm sure you'll win, like Kodak did, and Blockbuster. You guys are like the coal miners, resisting the fight for cleaner energy.

[lewismac]

LOL "AI is destroying the environment". Which environment is AI destroying? Can you name one? And how exactly did you arrive at the conclusion that I "support corporate profits over human well-being" ?

The only environment AI appears to be destroying is the one between your ears.

[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]

Hi everyone. I used the experimental chatGPT service for firefox 133... I have been talking for some time with firefox chatGPT about trivial things of theoretical and scientific topics. This chatGPT at a certain point responded to me saying that there were technical problems and that he was unable to answer my questions due to technical problems. I asked ChatGPT for explanations and after a while I received a message from OpenAI saying that there was a possible violation of the license terms for using chatGPT! Afterwards I made the same speech on another GPT model-4o online chat service and it didn't give me any problems, always explaining the same arguments... well?? very strange. Which GPT chat model does Firefox use?

[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.

[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.