Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Firefox
160 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by se123, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bullfinch, 5 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, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jerrey, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mascus, 6 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 6 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, 6 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5538090, 6 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by FrogPog, 6 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by es-rene99, 7 months agoI do wish the floating widget was optional, so I could select the options by clicking the extension on my extensions bar, but it does it's job and I like privacy oriented AI, awesome!
- Rated 1 out of 5by oxk4r, 7 months agoSummmaries are too short and lacking detail. Needs more options.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ovcheric, 7 months agoPlease remove the floating widget. There should be a button for summarizing the content from within the extensions toolbar. Also, please add the ability to set custom prompts.
Developer response
posted 7 months agoThank you for this feedback! The newest version now provides a "minimal" view in settings that removed the floating orb. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18636972, 7 months agoI'm very excited to try this, but right now it's not available on my Android computer. That's worth at least one star in my book. Excited to update this once I can try it on my computer though! Beautiful branding and design 👌🏼
- Rated 5 out of 5by keyframe_L, 7 months ago