Mozilla Company announced conducting experiments on integration in Firefox, a chatbot that uses large language models to interact with the user in natural language. Chatbot testing will begin this week in nightly builds Firefox.
The chatbot will be built into the sidebar and, at the user’s choice, will be able to work through the ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat and Le Chat Mistral services. In the future, they plan to expand the range of supported AI services. The user is given the opportunity to write text requests to the AI bot in the form of a chat, as well as send text highlighted on the page being viewed to create a summary of the content or explain the essence in simpler words.
To enable the chatbot in the settings in the “Nightly Experiments” section, you must activate the “AI Chatbot Integration” experiment. Sending the selected text to the bot is done through the new “Ask chatbot” element in the context menu shown when you right-click on the selected area. To pin the chatbot to the sidebar, you can use the interface to customize the content of the panel.
If desired, instead of predefined AI services, you can add your own service, including one that runs on the local system and uses open large language models, which can be launched using tools llamafile, which allows you to create universal executables for machine learning models. They promise to publish instructions for integrating their models later.
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