Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.

“It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox.”

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    502·
    1 day ago

    Hear me out.

    This could actually be cool:

    • If I could, say, mash in “get rid of the junk in this page” or “turn the page this color” or “navigate this form for me”

    • If it could block SEO and AI slop from search/pages, including images.

    • If I can pick my own API (including local) and sampling parameters

    • If it doesn’t preload any model in RAM.

    …That’d be neat.

    What I don’t want is a chatbot or summarizer or deep researcher because there are 7000 bajillion of those, and there is literally no advantage to FF baking it in like every other service on the planet.

    And… Honestly, PCs are not ready for local LLMs. Not even the most exotic experimental quantization of Qwen3 30B is ‘good enough’ to be reliable for the average person, and it still takes too much CPU/RAM. And whatever Mozilla ships would be way worse.

    That could change with a good bitnet model, but no one with money has pursued it yet.

    • guismo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      That would be awesome. Like a greasemonkey/advanced unlock for those of us who don’t know how to code. So many times I wanted to customise a website but I don’t know how or it’s not worth the effort.

      But only of it was local, and specially on mobile, where I need the most, it will be impossible for years…

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 hours ago

        I mean, you can run small models on mobile now, but they’re mostly good as a cog in an automation pipeline, not at (say) interpreting english instructions on how to alter a webpage.

        …Honestly, open weight model APIs for single-off calls like this are not a bad stopgap. It costs basically nothing, you can use any provider you want, its power efficient, and if you’re on the web, you have internet.

        • guismo@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          You mean to use online LLM?

          No. That’s what I don’t want. If it was a company I trusted I would, but good luck with that. Mozilla is not that company anymore, even if they had the resources to host their own.

          But locally or in a server I trust? That would be awesome. AI is awesome, but not the people who runs it.

    • Professorozone@lemmy.world
      31·
      15 hours ago

      You know what would be really cool? If I could just ask AI to turn off the AI in my browser. Now that would be cool.

          • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            12·
            6 hours ago

            Your server has not a monopoly on, but a majority of the worst shitlibs and other chuds. To the point I’m genuinely surprised by agreeing with someone there, and am worried that when i examine it closely youll be agreeing with me for some unthinkably horrible reason.