Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Mozilla Firefox
123 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by kris33, 3 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 3 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, 3 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 2 out of 5by Tanvir, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15191636, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Oxilotic., 3 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 3 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, 3 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 2 out of 5by oxk4r, 3 months agoSummmaries are too short and lacking detail. Needs more options.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ovcheric, 4 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 3 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Theeo123, 4 months 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, 4 months agoBella l'idea ma avere un componente fluttuante è fastidioso. Inoltre spero che presto sia supportato l'italiano
Developer response
posted 3 months 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, 4 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Y33N, 4 months 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 3 months 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, 4 months 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 3 months 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. - Rated 3 out of 5by GDiSalvo, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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 3 months 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 2 out of 5by Aidan, 4 months 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.
Edit: The new "minimal" option is less annoying, but still gets in the way. What I really want is to move it to the browser toolbar or sidebar.Developer response
posted 3 months 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, 4 months 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.