Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Firefox
8 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Gerk, 2 months 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 2 months 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. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14489236, 2 months 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 2 out of 5by kris33, 4 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 4 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 2 out of 5by Ovcheric, 5 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 4 months agoThank you for this feedback! The newest version now provides a "minimal" view in settings that removed the floating orb. - Rated 2 out of 5by Jacktose, 5 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 2 out of 5by GobiNoKitsune, 5 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 2 out of 5by Aidan, 5 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 4 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 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18596452, 5 months ago