Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Mozilla Firefox
Review by kris33
Rated 2 out of 5
by kris33, 15 days 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.)
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 14 days 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.
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.
57 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16270075, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jerrey, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mascus, 7 days 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 2 days 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, 10 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5538090, 11 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by FrogPog, 12 days 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, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sérgio SantAna Júnior, 16 days 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 2 out of 5by Tanvir, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15191636, 25 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Oxilotic., a month 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 16 days 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, a month 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 2 out of 5by oxk4r, a month agoSummmaries are too short and lacking detail. Needs more options.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ovcheric, a month 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 16 days 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, a month 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, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Theeo123, a month agoForegoing the discussion of AI in general and leaving that for a different time & place.
If you WANT to use AI in your workflow, this is a pretty handy tool. it's quick, easy to access, and the summaries it generates are succinct, easily readable, and helpful.
it is NOT a general purpose AI, it is meant specifically for summarizing content, and for that purpose it does a very good job. - Rated 4 out of 5by Massimiliano, a month agoBella l'idea ma avere un componente fluttuante è fastidioso. Inoltre spero che presto sia supportato l'italiano
Developer response
posted 16 days agoGrazie per la risposta. Il "componente fluttuante" è ora opzionale nella versione più recente. E stiamo lavorando per supportare più lingue nel prossimo futuro. - Rated 5 out of 5by Terran, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Y33N, a month agoI will agree with other users and say this can be a very successful project but it needs some touch ups. An ability to adjust the widget how we want with no fuss or remove it altogether and learn to be more inclusive of peoples needs as its being added, like DeArrow, for example.
Developer response
posted 16 days agoThank you for this feedback! We've just made a patch that addresses some of your concerns and will be continuing our efforts to be more inclusive of our user needs as we continue to improve the Beta version of Orbit. - Rated 5 out of 5by TheOddLia, a month agoA simple yet quite powerful AI integration for Firefox. There's already an AI sidebar built-in to Firefox, which offers models with more capabilities but integration is a bit finicky. For summarization at the click of a button, this is the best (and more private) choice. The floating orb on pages is a bit annoying, but it's dismissable now with the extension fully usable from the browser toolbar.
Developer response
posted 14 days agoThank you for your feedback! We've made some tweaks that should address most of the concerns you've raised. Please continue to share your thoughts as it's the only way we can iteratively improve the product.