Exploring on-device AI link previews in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
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Ever opened a bunch of tabs only to realize none of them have what you need? Or felt like you’re missing something valuable in a maze of hyperlinks?
  • Kekzkrieger@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Nobody really likes AI other than it being a gimmick that you cant really trust in the first place since it might halucinate. So since youbhave to check everything it says in the first place youbcould just do whatever it does in the first place without wasting resources for calculation

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    It’s so slow I’d probably be faster to just click the link and glance it over yourself.
    Maybe there’s good uses for local LLMs in a browser but this feature here is one lame gimmick

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    5 hours ago

    jwz » Mozilla’s Original Sin

    In my humble but correct opinion, Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

    1. Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
    2. Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
    3. There is no 3.
  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    I actually don’t think the idea is terrible, but judging from other local AI Firefox stuff (translation for example) it’s probably pretty bad.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        I have no issue with AI

        Just stop with the useless integrations. I don’t need AI on every single thing. I would much rather have something lighter weight.

        Firefox translations are cool but that’s about it from a usefulness perspective

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
        161·
        6 hours ago

        It’s true. But what’s also true is that Mozilla is squandering development resources on this AI slop instead of making the browser better.

        Then again, developing stuff nobody wants has been a hallmark of Mozilla for decades. So nothing new there…

        • vermaterc@lemmy.ml
          81·
          6 hours ago

          To be successful, Firefox should not only try to keep up with the competition, but also offer some unique features that would attract new users.

          I agree that LLMs are overhyped, but in my opinion they are quite good at summarising text. We all hate clickbait titles, and this feature has the potential to actually combat them. And what’s unique about Firefox’s approach is that it’s truly private. No other browser offers this.

        • LWD@lemm.ee
          7·
          6 hours ago

          Recently, they made a blog post triumphantly proclaiming creating two divisions for AI. To me, that sounds like two divisions that are about to get laid off.

  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    17·
    7 hours ago

    Arc has a similar feature, but last I checked it used ChatGPT. Firefox runs a local model, so it avoids the privacy issue.

    I have no problem with this in principle. The question is, does it suck? Document summary is a use case LLMs are well suited for, but it’s still highly application-specific. I’ve seen great summarizers and I’ve seen garbage summarizers. Hopefully Mozilla’s implementation is not as lazy as most others.

  • drspod@lemmy.ml
    11·
    6 hours ago

    The feature looks like absolute shit. Their supposed use-case is “you opened a bunch of tabs and none of them have what you need” and yet they expect you instead to sit there with your mouse hovering over a link, while holding a shortcut on the keyboard, waiting for the AI summary to finish loading? That would slow you down about 10x versus just opening all the links and looking at the page?

    If they wanted link previews, why didn’t they just prefetch the page and render it normally in a preview thumbnail like the ones that you now get when hovering over an open tab?

    Mindless shoe-horning of AI into the product to check some kind of box for the overpaid C-suite. For shame.

  • LWD@lemm.ee
    9·
    6 hours ago

    By all accounts, this sucks.

    I tried the link preview feature on a link to the English Wikipedia article about Touhou Project, and the LLM’s key points are just hilariously bad. For some reason it’s focusing too much on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch (which the LLM “thinks” were both released on August 15, 1997). I have a screenshot 6 days ago when it wasn’t a Firefox Labs feature yet in my Misskey:

    https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a6d86p8n26

    Tried it today in an updated Nightly and the key points are still the same lol.

    Source

  • infeeeee@lemm.ee
    9·
    7 hours ago

    To activate a Link Preview, hover over a link and press Shift (⇧) plus Alt (Option ⌥ on macOS),

    Thanks god it’s not default.