Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Mozilla Firefox
57 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by GDiSalvo, a month agoIt works great, but I agree with other reviews: the persistent floating button is ugly, and when I put it in sleep mode, I couldn't find how to restore it. I want it sitting in the toolbar, just like the other addons. And you repeat the same mistake as with the "Translate this page" feature: you assume English for the user language, and don't provide flexibility to customize exactly how and when we want translations.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jacktose, a month agoI'm glad Mozilla's trying for more privacy-conscious AI alternatives. The functionality is fine.
But I'm not going to have a giant, animated blob covering the corner of every website. You have a toolbar, an extensions menu, a context menu, and shortcut keys. Use any or all of those to activate an extension. (Heck, you even have an AI sidebar pane experiment. Why isn't Orbit in there?) - Rated 5 out of 5by sumer122, a month agoUser-Friendly, perfect for me. One point I would like is an option for choosing to summarize in the language page (ie: french page --> french summary)
- Rated 3 out of 5by Shikogo, a month agoI am glad that there's now a much less sketchy addon to summarize youtube videos. However, I have to agree that I hate the floating widget. My solution is to have it disabled and only enable it as needed, but I wish there was a setting to just hide it in the toolbar and the open as you click it. The floating blob is awful.
- Rated 2 out of 5by GobiNoKitsune, a month agoThe summaries are alright, nothing ground-breaking you can't find elsewhere. My main complaints are that it puts a 100x100 floating widget on your webpages -- who the hell thought this was a good idea? You have an extensions toolbar for a reason, Mozilla -- use it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mika, a month agoI like the intention, but the UI is horrible. Please hire a UX designer, because 100x100px widget is sticking out like a sore thumb. I will not use this addon until a better UI is developed.
Suggestions:
- Add option to disable the hideous overlay instead of snoozing
- Add keyboard shortcut to open Orbit
- Instead of overlay, use either addon dropdown like the rest of the addons, or a toggleable sidebar like new AI Chatbot feature in Firefox.Developer response
posted 14 days agoThank you for your feedback! It's incredibly valuable for us. We've made some updates to the Beta that should hopefully address a most of your concerns. - Rated 1 out of 5by Aidan, a month agoDisplays a large icon floating over the webpage - and it's *animated*. I'd like to try this extension, but only after this is fixed.
Developer response
posted 14 days agoThank you for the feedback! It's helps us iteratively improve the product. Let us know if the tweaks we've made made it a more positive experience for you. - Rated 5 out of 5by Chris, a month agoEasy to use add-in, I've tested many website that are doing less, or are more complex. Of course the generated website is "light", missing some features, but the job is done. I hope this tool will last and develop over time, if Mozilla has a medium-term view to help Firefox gain ground, otherwise thank you for removing this tool because people will be looking for this type of solution, but intended for Firefox users.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jure Repinc, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by SMArtgrinder, a month agoI'd prefer it to be a toolbar button rather than a flying slug covering the page contents.
- Rated 5 out of 5by dislocate5406, a month agoPretty great AI assistant. Capabilities are a little limited and I find that it also provides similar capabilities as the AI Chat in Firefox Labs, with the exception of a needed account. If there was a way to activate the AI Assistant via button or hotkey, so it's out of the way, that would be stellar.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14776589, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Avakining, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Colton, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by essi, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18596452, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14755110, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by jahtnamas, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Fxdemiurg, 2 months agoWhy such a big icon? Generalization only in English is a minus. But I found a way out of this situation. :) The icon appears on sites where I do not want to see the icon and do not want the application to work on these sites, for example sites related to finance. This is important! Please fix this! Make a setting - a black list that prohibits work on sites included in this list. If I click the close button on the icon on one site, then Orbit is disabled on all sites. This is not correct operation due to lack of blacklist.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14429015, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by jojojo, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Kyle, 2 months agoIt's nice so far, but I wish there was a way to let it run in the background. Having the icon hovering over the page is a bit distracting
- Rated 5 out of 5by flat-six, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Albion, 2 months ago