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Chat with Mozilla’s new AI assistant
Mozilla has followed the example of Microsoft, Brave and Opera (and Google in the US) by introducing an AI assistant for its browser. It’s called Orbit (www.snipca.com/53389 and is currently in beta so Mozilla has taken the sensible precaution of making the chatbot optional, rather than foisting it on Firefox users prematurely.
You can try Orbit now by installing its extension from the Firefox Add-ons Store (www.snipca.com/53390). It requires permission to access your browsing data and tabs, so it can “generate summaries and provide real-time answers”. This is standard for an AI assistant, but you can stop Orbit collecting additional data for “error monitoring and performance tracking” by clicking ‘Agree to Essential Data Collection only’.
Orbit appears in the top-right corner of the browser window as a swirling animated circle, which you can drag to move wherever you want. Hover your cursor over this circle to access Orbit’s Summarize option ( 1 in our screenshot below), which summarises the current web page, and to ask it questions about the content.