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 Bill the Cat, 6 months agoThis is super handy to summarize a lengthy article when I am strapped for time.
Developer response
posted 6 months agoThank you for the feedback! Glad to hear Orbit was able to help - Rated 4 out of 5by Ank, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by nagadev, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SUNFOX, 6 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by JZVS, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by se123, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bullfinch, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18058733, 6 months agoSurprisingly useful. Mozilla is one of few tech companies I trust, so I'm willing to see where they go with this.
- Rated 5 out of 5by kartikeya, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ollie, 6 months agoI've found Orbit to be decently useful for me so far as a summary tool. I like the fact that it seems designed with that main purpose in mind. I also very much appreciate the steps taken to preserve user privacy.
My number one request however would be to include a Dark Mode option for the panels and widget. The current light theme clashes heavily with my dark browser theme and pages using a dark layout.
I'll definitely continue using this add-on, and I look forward to seeing how it develops with future updates.
EDIT: They have since added a dark mode, so that's a 5 stars from me! Thank you devs! - Rated 5 out of 5by doesthiscount, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16270075, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jerrey, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mascus, 7 months agoThis is an incredible add-on. Well done, team, for making it so useful and responsive. The AI is also really great and non-distracting in its responses.
May I ask that you add a keyboard shortcut to bring up a chat window or something? It would just feel a lot more fluid that way. The orb (clever naming btw) can be a bit distracting, partly because its animated.
I'm super happy with it just need a keyboard shortcut to make it stealthier.
Cheers for all your work so far.Developer response
posted 7 months agoThat's great feedback! And thank you for the kind words as well. The keyboard shortcuts should be coming in the coming iterations : ) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16840780, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5538090, 7 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by FrogPog, 7 months agoI really like this addon! You can summarize giant webpages/videos into some sentences! But, it have some issues: 1. Minimal orb format always snaps to right border. Would be nice if user could snap it to the left, bottom or top. 2 Orb position resets when changing tabs / going to another link. 3. Orb sometimes randomly disappears (enabling on/off don't help) (yeah my english is very bad because it's not my first language 😄)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Krisna S. Putra, 7 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by kris33, 7 months agoWorks good, but extremely annoying UI.
This adds a massive floating element to all webpages by default. You can make it smaller, but it's still on top of pages instead of better places built for add-ons, like the toolbar. Imagine if other extensions did it like this, it would be massively annoying. It's like the Clippy/BonziBuddy UI, just duller.
You can't summarize the things you usually want to summarize either, like links you haven't clicked on yet. That's probably the most useful use-case for summarization, "do I want to consume the contents on this link or is it clickbait?". This plugin can't do that, the UI is both intrusive and useless.
The Kagi extension has a WAY better UI (but the summarization itself is often broken unfortunately, so alternatives are needed.)Developer response
posted 7 months agoThis is valuable feedback for our team! Thank you.
The ability to summarize links on a page is a great idea and one we'll add to our backlog.
We'll continue to evolve the UI thanks to great feedback like this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Sérgio SantAna Júnior, 7 months agoDou 5 estrelas para a Orbit porque a Mozilla continua investindo em tecnologias inovadoras e é ótimo ver esse apoio ao open-source. No entanto, a falta de suporte em português e a ausência de opções de personalização limitam a experiência para alguns usuários. Seria interessante oferecer a escolha de personalizar a IA, onde quem busca mais privacidade mantém o padrão, e quem deseja uma experiência mais rica preenche preferências e a opção de aprender com uma conta personalizada, uma experiencia mais imersiva. Acredito que a Orbit tem um futuro promissor e, com mais flexibilidade, pode conquistar uma base ainda maior.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15191636, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Oxilotic., 7 months agoPretty good as far as AI extensions go. Hate that floating orb though, wish it was optional. Perhaps a right click or toolbar click could be avaliable as options?
Good work regardless.Developer response
posted 7 months agoThank you for the kind review! A new patch just went out today with a new "minimal" setting for the "orb" that makes it less prominent.