We heard you like AI

…did you? Did you really?

Horray I guess

By all accounts, this sucks.

I tried the link preview feature on a link to the English Wikipedia article about Touhou Project, and the LLM’s key points are just hilariously bad. For some reason it’s focusing too much on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch (which the LLM “thinks” were both released on August 15, 1997). I have a screenshot 6 days ago when it wasn’t a Firefox Labs feature yet in my Misskey:

https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a6d86p8n26

Tried it today in an updated Nightly and the key points are still the same lol.

Source

I actually don’t think the idea is terrible, but judging from other local AI Firefox stuff (translation for example) it’s probably pretty bad.

Please no… I hope it can be disabled.

It’s so slow it’d probably be faster to just click the link and glance it over yourself.
Maybe there’s good uses for local LLMs in a browser but this feature here is one lame gimmick

Arc has a similar feature, but last I checked it used ChatGPT. Firefox runs a local model, so it avoids the privacy issue.

I have no problem with this in principle. The question is, does it suck? Document summary is a use case LLMs are well suited for, but it’s still highly application-specific. I’ve seen great summarizers and I’ve seen garbage summarizers. Hopefully Mozilla’s implementation is not as lazy as most others.

jwz » Mozilla’s Original Sin

In my humble but correct opinion, Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1. Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2. Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3. There is no 3.

I’m pretty sure they are doing this to try win over chrome users

You heard wrong.

To activate a Link Preview, hover over a link and press Shift (⇧) plus Alt (Option ⌥ on macOS),

Thanks god it’s not default.

Total mozilla death NOW!

Mozilla leadership sure has gone down the drain.

Yes!! AI. AI.

The feature looks like absolute shit. Their supposed use-case is “you opened a bunch of tabs and none of them have what you need” and yet they expect you instead to sit there with your mouse hovering over a link, while holding a shortcut on the keyboard, waiting for the AI summary to finish loading? That would slow you down about 10x versus just opening all the links and looking at the page?

If they wanted link previews, why didn’t they just prefetch the page and render it normally in a preview thumbnail like the ones that you now get when hovering over an open tab?

Mindless shoe-horning of AI into the product to check some kind of box for the overpaid C-suite. For shame.