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!

[panayiotis]

Can we have Microsoft Copilot also?

[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.

[majesticmini471]

Local Ollama is the only one that my team has ever trusted. They have at least respected users' privacy and accessibility. Yet, today's modern developers do not care for such things! Agree? God help us all!

[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!

[Moneywise0]

This feature is incredibly useful for quick explanations, saving time by eliminating tab switching. The "Show prompts on text select" is really helpful. I’d love the ability to customize prompts and see DeepSeek as a chatbot option.
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[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.

[Manchester100]

The Ctrl Alt X keyboard shortcut is already in use.

Even if I turn off the AI sidebar in settings it still opens up automatically if I use that shortcut to get to my other, more desirable, application, Notion.

[Manchester100]

Just to follow up... This shortcut is still enabled and calls up the chatbot even if I remove Firefox Labs via the configuration settings and clear the cache!

[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?

[Elle]

Please integrate https://chat.deepseek.com/