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Didn’t know Firefox had an “AI sidebar” https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot Seems to be unconnecte

Didn’t know Firefox had an “AI sidebar” https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot Seems to be unconnected to any model and off by default.

thrance 1y ago
Didn't know about it either, until it got pushed in my face a few days ago, for whatever reason. Didn't leave a great taste in my mouth.
- janwl 1y ago
  I’m used to all browsers adding features that I don’t want every few months. I just disable them and forget about them.
tyre 1y ago
I’ve found it super nice. Similar to the “AI should be an assistant programmer, not an independent dev”, having Claude there and being able to ask questions about specific topics while I read is fantastic. Especially for scientific papers that are outside my specialty (i.e. all of them.)
- callamdelaney 1y ago
  Have you heard of tabs?
  - SpecialistK 1y ago
    Have you heard of the HN guidelines? > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
    - callamdelaney 1y ago
      I'm curious, why did you call out behaviour which goes against the guidelines, with behaviour that goes against the guidelines?
koakuma-chan 1y ago
I have a Gemini sidebar, it just appeared out of nowhere one day, but I find it useful though. You can give it a URL and it can summarize it or whatever.
bokchoi 1y ago
It was weird when it just showed up one day, but after using it a bit, I like it.
spelk 1y ago
Not mentioned is the ability to setup custom prompts. [1] I enjoy reading technical blogs from the global south and the slavic world. I've found that LLMs do a far better job at translation than Google Translate/DeepL, etc. in these niche domains, so I added a translate prompt to my context menu and that converted me over to using it. [1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/advanced-configuration-of-the-ai-chatbot-in-firefox/td-p/85031 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/advanced-configur...
dandanua 1y ago
It's super useful for power users. You can connect any model you like through ollama (or similar services) and use your own pre-defined prompts to run against the selected text on websites simply from right click context menu.
- oneshtein 1y ago
  How to connect it to Ollama? I use PageAssist[1] extension for that. [1]: https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist
  - dandanua 1y ago
    You have to change settings in about:config, e.g. `browser.ml.chat.provider = http://localhost:3333` with the address of your model server (I actually use open-webui with ollama for that). Then you could change the prompts, for example, those are mine : browser.ml.chat.prompts.0 {"id":"search", "value": "What do you know about the selected text?", "label": "Search"} browser.ml.chat.prompts.1 {"id":"grammar", "value": "Can you fix the grammar in the selected text?", "label": "Grammar"} browser.ml.chat.prompts.2 {"id":"summary", "value": "Can you summarize the selected text?", "label": "Summary"} browser.ml.chat.prompts.3 {"id":"code", "value": "Can you explain the selected code?", "label": "Code"} browser.ml.chat.prompts.4 {"id":"translate", "value": "Can you translate the selected text?", "label": "Translate"} I have found instructions here https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/advanced-configuration-of-the-ai-chatbot-in-firefox/td-p/85031 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/advanced-configur..., though they are a bit outdated since you have to setup prompts differently.
pama 1y ago
Thankfully they are unconnected by default. Unfortunately the sidebar can get triggered accidentally with keystrokes from muscle memory (Emacs) and then one has to deal with the side bar. It would have been nicer if by default nothing existed in the first place.

Didn’t know Firefox had an “AI sidebar” https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot Seems to be unconnected to any model and off by default.

thrance 1y ago

Didn't know about it either, until it got pushed in my face a few days ago, for whatever reason. Didn't leave a great taste in my mouth.

janwl 1y ago
I’m used to all browsers adding features that I don’t want every few months. I just disable them and forget about them.

tyre 1y ago

I’ve found it super nice. Similar to the “AI should be an assistant programmer, not an independent dev”, having Claude there and being able to ask questions about specific topics while I read is fantastic. Especially for scientific papers that are outside my specialty (i.e. all of them.)

callamdelaney 1y ago
Have you heard of tabs?
- SpecialistK 1y ago
  Have you heard of the HN guidelines? > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
  - callamdelaney 1y ago
    I'm curious, why did you call out behaviour which goes against the guidelines, with behaviour that goes against the guidelines?

koakuma-chan 1y ago

I have a Gemini sidebar, it just appeared out of nowhere one day, but I find it useful though. You can give it a URL and it can summarize it or whatever.

bokchoi 1y ago

It was weird when it just showed up one day, but after using it a bit, I like it.

spelk 1y ago

Not mentioned is the ability to setup custom prompts. [1] I enjoy reading technical blogs from the global south and the slavic world. I've found that LLMs do a far better job at translation than Google Translate/DeepL, etc. in these niche domains, so I added a translate prompt to my context menu and that converted me over to using it. [1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/advanced-configuration-of-the-ai-chatbot-in-firefox/td-p/85031 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/advanced-configur...

dandanua 1y ago

It's super useful for power users. You can connect any model you like through ollama (or similar services) and use your own pre-defined prompts to run against the selected text on websites simply from right click context menu.

oneshtein 1y ago
How to connect it to Ollama? I use PageAssist[1] extension for that. [1]: https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist
- dandanua 1y ago
  You have to change settings in about:config, e.g. `browser.ml.chat.provider = http://localhost:3333` with the address of your model server (I actually use open-webui with ollama for that). Then you could change the prompts, for example, those are mine : browser.ml.chat.prompts.0 {"id":"search", "value": "What do you know about the selected text?", "label": "Search"} browser.ml.chat.prompts.1 {"id":"grammar", "value": "Can you fix the grammar in the selected text?", "label": "Grammar"} browser.ml.chat.prompts.2 {"id":"summary", "value": "Can you summarize the selected text?", "label": "Summary"} browser.ml.chat.prompts.3 {"id":"code", "value": "Can you explain the selected code?", "label": "Code"} browser.ml.chat.prompts.4 {"id":"translate", "value": "Can you translate the selected text?", "label": "Translate"} I have found instructions here https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/advanced-configuration-of-the-ai-chatbot-in-firefox/td-p/85031 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/advanced-configur..., though they are a bit outdated since you have to setup prompts differently.

pama 1y ago

Thankfully they are unconnected by default. Unfortunately the sidebar can get triggered accidentally with keystrokes from muscle memory (Emacs) and then one has to deal with the side bar. It would have been nicer if by default nothing existed in the first place.