Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Firefox
150 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18206306, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17541499, 3 months agoI will be following the project with interest. Surprisingly, there is no repository for this extension. Also, no communication platform has been created. For example, a discord server.
The extension is obviously designed for Firefox. Why does its design seem so foreign to the browser's design? Isn't this part of the same ecosystem? I agree with all the comments about the support for different languages, the dark mode, and the annoying extension icon. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15209884, 3 months agoPor favor hagan que la IA se pueda comunicar en otros idiomas, en español por ejemplo.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoActualmente estamos trabajando para agregar soporte para el idioma español. Muy pronto! - Rated 5 out of 5by wdiff, 3 months agoIf assuming that you approach AI not as a "think for me" and rather a "think with me" piece of software, this is great. Works with everything Ive tried so far on it.
But only have 2 simple requests.
*Allow DarkReader / Implement a dark mode.*
Its a major eyesore that this is seemingly the only element I cant change.
*Add another option to engage it via the extension icon itself*
This may just be in response to the first request...but still, what can be done in minimal can be done from the icon itself. I dont need this element always stuck on the right side (why cant it be on the left) of my screen.Developer response
posted 3 months agoThank you for your kind feedback!
* We are hoping to have Dark Mode available for our next release.
* We are testing a few additional ways to fully remove the persistent icon (floating, stuck to the side etc.) Hoping to have that out very soon as well. - Rated 2 out of 5by Gerk, 3 months agoIt struggles significantly with describing entertainment videos. Mixtral makes many mistakes and overlooks important moments, as if it doesn't understand the sequence of the narrative and what to write. The descriptions are too concise. It would be beneficial to recognize when more details are needed and when they are not. In any case, I hope this can be improved, as the concept itself is great. It would also be nice to consider using Llama 3, GPT-4o Mini, or Claude 3 instead of Mixtral7B.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoThank you for your kind feedback! We are currently testing a few alternatives. It helps us to know where Mixtral 7B is not meeting the expectations. Developer response
posted 3 months agoThank you for your feedback! We are currently working on adding additional language support and Russian is high on the list!- Rated 1 out of 5by ChaseC, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by it.s.me, 3 months agoit's overall a good extension and ai works well but the only thing i don't like about this is that i have to keep the floating icon, either dynamic or minimal.
Firefox, please add a button next to the address bar, that would be very non-distracting. i know i can pin extension to toolbar, but it still needs improvement and the floating icon will still say.
Other than that, it's really great!Developer response
posted 3 months agoThank you for the kind feedback! We are hoping the upcoming release will take care of the persistence of the Icon. Developer response
posted 3 months agoThank you for your feedback! Russian is very high on the list on the languages we're hoping to support in the very near future.- Rated 5 out of 5by jbou, 3 months agoMozilla offers us this new Firefox extension which provides a free and privacy-preserving AI assistant for web browsing. The quality of the web page and video summaries is very decent IMO although there's room for improvement. Latency is also fine. Regarding the UI, I like the simple and functional design, but find it too invasive by default, while it's fine when set to minimized.
For a beta, this already got me hyped and looking forward for future versions!
Some suggestions for improvement:
* Response quality can be improved, by incorporating more recent and powerful language models than the current choice (Mistral 7B).
* Allow to save a history of summaries/chats.
* Implement natural language search across website pages. That could be super useful for overcoming the lack of a search function on a website.
* For even less clutter, move the Orb button as an menu in Firefox's extension toolbar.
* We could expect more transparency regarding how it works: what exactly is send to the model (does it only see the current HTML page? what is the full prompt?), where is the server located, or what is the exact language model used (if open).
* Add a dark mode option - Rated 5 out of 5by Jiri, 3 months agoA toolbar button would be enough. No need to inject extra elements to every website, but it can be disabled.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13191301, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14489236, 3 months agoIs the extension really that important that they have to put that ball right on the webpage? I guess not. Mozilla should stick to its own style guides & established best practices. A toolbar button would have sufficed.
- Rated 4 out of 5by zeevb, 3 months agoThis extension shows promise as a thoughtful approach to integrating AI capabilities into Firefox. Rather than building AI directly into the browser, Mozilla has opted to release it as an optional extension, giving users more control over their browsing experience.
The extension offers basic AI-powered features like webpage summarization and question-answering capabilities. However, there are some notable privacy considerations that could use improvement. Currently, the extension lacks granular privacy controls - users would benefit from the ability to whitelist or blacklist specific websites. Additionally, there's a lack of transparency around when exactly webpage contents are being sent to the AI service - whether it happens automatically when pages load or only when users explicitly request summaries or ask questions. - Rated 5 out of 5by Almost9797, 3 months agoGreat idea! It needs some work on customizations and accessibility. The font is too small, and the screen should have a dark/light mode option. Also, the pop-out sidebar should be adjustable in size. I'm really excited about the potential, though! Keep up the good work!
- Rated 3 out of 5by advonaut, 3 months agoPls allow user to write and save the prompt per domain. For example, when I am on court awards webpage, I want the summary (prompt) to be specific to that type of content. Other pages with different type of content would need other prompts.
Also, pls remove the Orb and do not use orbs in the UX any more. Ever. - Rated 1 out of 5by locrian, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by k, 3 months agoWhy does every "official" Mozilla feature get its own part of the screen? Less and less space is available for page contents. I wish it could just go inside the overflow menu instead of taking up yet more of the screen. (That initial floating orb thing was super scary, not the impression you want a supposedly useful tool to give!)
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14542320, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by HumanistAtypik, 3 months agoUnderstands perfectly high level French inputs, but refuses strictly to translate anything from English to French. System prompt must be uselessly too restrictive! Please improve it!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Filip, 3 months agoIs there going to be added languages other than English? There are open-source models with a similar number of parameters that have better language capabilities, eg llama
- Rated 4 out of 5by ChosenFate, 3 months agoSeems nice so far, but please let us completely disable the orb. even on minimal, its annoying, and opening the extension isn't extra effort. The orb even shows in fullscreen videos which is just.. annoying
Developer response
posted 3 months agoThank you for this feedback! This helps us continuously improve Orbit.
We're building keyboard shortcuts that'll allow us to fully hide Orbit in the upcoming release. - Rated 5 out of 5by weh, 3 months agoI'm hyped, this seems like a very cool new feature. Hope this will get developed further.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mike, 3 months ago