With the AI race heating up, more and more companies are integrating AI features into their products. Microsoft offers Copilot in Edge, and Google offers Gemini in Chrome. Now, Mozilla is also entering the fray by adding its own AI chatbot to Firefox.
An AI chatbot is coming to Firefox
Nowadays, almost all major browsers have their own AI chatbot. Whether you’re talking about Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Opera, every big player in the browser market is offering AI chatbots. Now, it seems like Mozilla is also planning to jump on the bandwagon, as they’ve begun experimenting with an AI chatbot in Firefox Nightly.
You’ll be able to access this chatbot starting this week, and it will be available in the browser’s sidebar. To try out the chatbot, first download the latest version of Firefox Nightly. Then, click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner and choose Settings.
In the Settings menu, select Nightly Experiments in the left sidebar and check the box for AI Chatbot Integration on the right. After that, you need to pick a chatbot that you want to use in Firefox. You can choose between Google Gemini, ChatGPT, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral.
Once you’ve selected your chatbot, you’re ready to use it. You can use it to summarize information, test your knowledge and memory of an excerpt, or simplify the language of the text. You simply need to select the text you want the chatbot to work on, hover your mouse cursor over an option that’s relevant to the chatbot, and then choose the action you want to perform.
These AI models are still under development
In their blog post, Mozilla discussed why they’re giving users a choice of AI services. They want users to decide which service works best for them, not be limited to a single option. The blog also mentioned that these AI models are still under development, and none of them are perfect.
Some AI models excel in particular areas, while others excel in completely different ones. With multiple AI services available, you’ll have the option to choose different services for different tasks, depending on their area of expertise.
As mentioned above, the Firefox AI chatbot is still under testing and far from being released in the stable version. It will be interesting to see what other changes Mozilla will make to its chatbot before it’s available in the stable browser version.
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