Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Mozilla Firefox
Review by BUG
113 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16793127, 3 hours agoWorks extremely bad, often produces summary that is longer than the article itself. Developers of this add-on have absolutely no idea what they are doing. Instauninstall.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 浪迹天涯小叮当, 6 days agoWorks pretty well (a few errors sometimes though XD)
Looking forward to support for more languages! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14379205, 8 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by AdrianDeWinter, 9 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by raphdragon02, 9 days agoit's become very useful and an integral part of my daily usage. the only reason i didn't give it five stars is because i need a dark theme!!!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17390475, 9 days agoPromising additions and great initiatives from Mozilla
- Rated 3 out of 5by aditya, 9 days agoquite decent but the button really needs to disappear when fullscreen video is playing atleast in minimal mode, its extremely distracting and blocks content. This is the only real issue i have with it but it makes it quite unusable
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18772018, 10 days agoGreat at what it's designed to do, quite useful for catching up on news. One minor hunch; could you please make it so that the orb disappears when going full screen in YouTube? Simple feature that would go a long way. (Maybe a shortcut to hide and show the orb?) Thanks!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18771672, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18206306, 12 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17541499, 12 days agoI will be following the project with interest. Surprisingly, there is no repository for this extension. Also, no communication platform has been created. For example, a discord server.
The extension is obviously designed for Firefox. Why does its design seem so foreign to the browser's design? Isn't this part of the same ecosystem? I agree with all the comments about the support for different languages, the dark mode, and the annoying extension icon. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15209884, 12 days agoPor favor hagan que la IA se pueda comunicar en otros idiomas, en español por ejemplo.
Developer response
posted 12 days agoActualmente estamos trabajando para agregar soporte para el idioma español. Muy pronto! - Rated 5 out of 5by wdiff, 12 days agoIf assuming that you approach AI not as a "think for me" and rather a "think with me" piece of software, this is great. Works with everything Ive tried so far on it.
But only have 2 simple requests.
*Allow DarkReader / Implement a dark mode.*
Its a major eyesore that this is seemingly the only element I cant change.
*Add another option to engage it via the extension icon itself*
This may just be in response to the first request...but still, what can be done in minimal can be done from the icon itself. I dont need this element always stuck on the right side (why cant it be on the left) of my screen.Developer response
posted 12 days agoThank you for your kind feedback!
* We are hoping to have Dark Mode available for our next release.
* We are testing a few additional ways to fully remove the persistent icon (floating, stuck to the side etc.) Hoping to have that out very soon as well. - Rated 2 out of 5by Gerk, 13 days agoIt struggles significantly with describing entertainment videos. Mixtral makes many mistakes and overlooks important moments, as if it doesn't understand the sequence of the narrative and what to write. The descriptions are too concise. It would be beneficial to recognize when more details are needed and when they are not. In any case, I hope this can be improved, as the concept itself is great. It would also be nice to consider using Llama 3, GPT-4o Mini, or Claude 3 instead of Mixtral7B.
Developer response
posted 12 days agoThank you for your kind feedback! We are currently testing a few alternatives. It helps us to know where Mixtral 7B is not meeting the expectations. Developer response
posted 12 days agoThank you for your feedback! We are currently working on adding additional language support and Russian is high on the list!- Rated 1 out of 5by ChaseC, 14 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by it.s.me, 14 days agoit's overall a good extension and ai works well but the only thing i don't like about this is that i have to keep the floating icon, either dynamic or minimal.
Firefox, please add a button next to the address bar, that would be very non-distracting. i know i can pin extension to toolbar, but it still needs improvement and the floating icon will still say.
Other than that, it's really great!Developer response
posted 12 days agoThank you for the kind feedback! We are hoping the upcoming release will take care of the persistence of the Icon. Developer response
posted 12 days 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, 15 days 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, 16 days 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, 16 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14489236, 16 days agoIs the extension really that important that they have to put that ball right on the webpage? I guess not. Mozilla should stick to its own style guides & established best practices. A toolbar button would have sufficed.
- Rated 4 out of 5by zeevb, 16 days agoThis extension shows promise as a thoughtful approach to integrating AI capabilities into Firefox. Rather than building AI directly into the browser, Mozilla has opted to release it as an optional extension, giving users more control over their browsing experience.
The extension offers basic AI-powered features like webpage summarization and question-answering capabilities. However, there are some notable privacy considerations that could use improvement. Currently, the extension lacks granular privacy controls - users would benefit from the ability to whitelist or blacklist specific websites. Additionally, there's a lack of transparency around when exactly webpage contents are being sent to the AI service - whether it happens automatically when pages load or only when users explicitly request summaries or ask questions. - Rated 5 out of 5by Almost9797, 17 days 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!