AI assistant are becoming more common, and major browsers, such as Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera, have AI integration, and now Firefox has also joined the company with Orbit AI assistant. The Orbit AI assistant and Content Summarizer helps you easily summarize emails, docs, articles, and videos across the web.
Firefox’s Orbit AI assistant is designed with privacy in mind. It does not need you to create an account or save your session for training the LLM (large language model). As soon as you leave the page, Orbit promptly deletes your session, ensuring no data is retained.
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What is Firefox’s Orbit AI Assistant and Content Summarizer?
Orbit is a Firefox add-on (currently in Beta) that leverages AI to summarize and respond to queries about web content, including articles, emails and videos. In this version of Orbit AI, Mozilla utilizes the open-source Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B), which is hosted on Mozilla’s Google Cloud Platform.
When you ask Orbit to summarize or answer questions about a webpage or email, it collects the relevant information (such as text, images, and videos) from the page you are looking at and gives you a summary or response. Orbit can be used on various websites, including Gmail, Wikipedia, The New York Times, YouTube, and more. However, this beta version of Orbit is currently only available in English.
How to Enable Firefox’s Orbit AI Assistant?
1. To install the Orbit Summarizer add-on, visit its page and click the “Add to Firefox” button.
2. When prompted, grant the necessary permissions and restart your Firefox browser.
3. Next, navigate to any webpage or email you wish to summarize.
4. Right-click and select ‘Summarize page with Orbit.’
5. The summary will be displayed instantly in the right sidebar of the browser.
6. To configure Orbit, click the gear icon and select your preferred Orbit format, response format, and summary type.
What Are the Key Features of Firefox’s Orbit AI Assistant?
- Quick Summarization: Get summaries of emails, documents, articles, and video transcripts on popular sites such as Gmail, Google Docs, YouTube, and more.
- Private: Orbit doesn’t require account creation or save your session data. The questions you ask are retained only as long as needed to process them.
- User-Friendly: Simple and easy to use.
- Interactive Q&A: Ask questions about page content and quickly find specific information.
- Customizable Summaries: Choose your preferred summary length and format.
- Question Recommendations: Get the most out of Orbit with relevant question recommendations.
- No AI Training: Unlike other services, Orbit’s AI does not train on your data, ensuring your information remains private.
For your information, Firefox already has a built-in AI chatbot, similar to DuckDuckGo. You can access ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral chatbots directly from the sidebar of the Firefox browser. This integration allows users to have conversations that help refine, summarize, or generate new content based on the context provided.
