Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Firefox
99 reviews
Developer response
posted 6 months agoThank you for your feedback! We are currently working on adding additional language support and Russian is high on the list!Developer response
posted 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Almost9797, 6 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 5 out of 5by k, 6 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 5 out of 5by weh, 6 months agoI'm hyped, this seems like a very cool new feature. Hope this will get developed further.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mike, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mehdi Abbassi, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by okok, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15930860, 7 months agoGreat extension, would be fantastic to have it on Android too!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Muhammad Farag, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14776589, 7 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 7 months agoThank you for that feedback! It's something we're currently considering and hope to make that feature available in the future. - Rated 5 out of 5by Bill the Cat, 7 months agoThis is super handy to summarize a lengthy article when I am strapped for time.
Developer response
posted 7 months agoThank you for the feedback! Glad to hear Orbit was able to help - Rated 5 out of 5by SUNFOX, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by se123, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18058733, 7 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, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ollie, 8 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, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16270075, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jerrey, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mascus, 8 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 8 months agoThat's great feedback! And thank you for the kind words as well. The keyboard shortcuts should be coming in the coming iterations : )