Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Firefox
165 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jiri, 5 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, 5 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14489236, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by k, 5 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, 5 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by HumanistAtypik, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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 5 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, 5 months agoI'm hyped, this seems like a very cool new feature. Hope this will get developed further.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mike, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17112512, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mehdi Abbassi, 5 months ago
Developer response
posted 5 months agoThank you for your feedback! We're working on improving the performance for future iterations.- Rated 5 out of 5by okok, 5 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ryan, 5 months agoA bit silly sometimes, seems adamant on answering questions about the web page im currently on exclusively, even if specified otherwise, has some issues interpreting language. Also please add darkmode, I beg.
Other than that it's a very useful extension, saves a lot time by its ability to summarise everything. Excited for new updates. Strongly recommend.Developer response
posted 5 months agoWe really appreciate your feedback! For now, the functionality of Orbit is limited to only summarize the current page you are on so that we don't retain any of your previous sessions. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15930860, 5 months agoGreat extension, would be fantastic to have it on Android too!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Muhammad Farag, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Liam, 6 months agoI would have never guessed this was made by Mozilla, such a poorly designed and ugly extension, in order to use it you need to keep that weird looking orb floating on every web page you're on at all times
Developer response
posted 6 months agoThanks for your feedback! We've now introduced another UI options for the "orb" available thanks to previous user feedback. We'll take this as an opportunity to better demonstrate the "minimalist" option during onboarding. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14776589, 6 months agoThis is a timesaver for me, using it a lot! Would be great to be able to use it in the reader view or when reading a searchable pdf too.
Developer response
posted 6 months agoThank you for that feedback! It's something we're currently considering and hope to make that feature available in the future.