Reviews for Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer by Mozilla Firefox
63 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by keyframe_L, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Theeo123, 2 months agoForegoing the discussion of AI in general and leaving that for a different time & place.
If you WANT to use AI in your workflow, this is a pretty handy tool. it's quick, easy to access, and the summaries it generates are succinct, easily readable, and helpful.
it is NOT a general purpose AI, it is meant specifically for summarizing content, and for that purpose it does a very good job. - Rated 4 out of 5by Massimiliano, 2 months agoBella l'idea ma avere un componente fluttuante è fastidioso. Inoltre spero che presto sia supportato l'italiano
Developer response
posted a month agoGrazie per la risposta. Il "componente fluttuante" è ora opzionale nella versione più recente. E stiamo lavorando per supportare più lingue nel prossimo futuro. - Rated 5 out of 5by Terran, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Y33N, 2 months agoI will agree with other users and say this can be a very successful project but it needs some touch ups. An ability to adjust the widget how we want with no fuss or remove it altogether and learn to be more inclusive of peoples needs as its being added, like DeArrow, for example.
Developer response
posted a month agoThank you for this feedback! We've just made a patch that addresses some of your concerns and will be continuing our efforts to be more inclusive of our user needs as we continue to improve the Beta version of Orbit. - Rated 5 out of 5by TheOddLia, 2 months agoA simple yet quite powerful AI integration for Firefox. There's already an AI sidebar built-in to Firefox, which offers models with more capabilities but integration is a bit finicky. For summarization at the click of a button, this is the best (and more private) choice. The floating orb on pages is a bit annoying, but it's dismissable now with the extension fully usable from the browser toolbar.
Developer response
posted a month agoThank you for your feedback! We've made some tweaks that should address most of the concerns you've raised. Please continue to share your thoughts as it's the only way we can iteratively improve the product. - Rated 3 out of 5by GDiSalvo, 2 months agoIt works great, but I agree with other reviews: the persistent floating button is ugly, and when I put it in sleep mode, I couldn't find how to restore it. I want it sitting in the toolbar, just like the other addons. And you repeat the same mistake as with the "Translate this page" feature: you assume English for the user language, and don't provide flexibility to customize exactly how and when we want translations.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jacktose, 2 months agoI'm glad Mozilla's trying for more privacy-conscious AI alternatives. The functionality is fine.
But I'm not going to have a giant, animated blob covering the corner of every website. You have a toolbar, an extensions menu, a context menu, and shortcut keys. Use any or all of those to activate an extension. (Heck, you even have an AI sidebar pane experiment. Why isn't Orbit in there?) - Rated 5 out of 5by sumer122, 2 months agoUser-Friendly, perfect for me. One point I would like is an option for choosing to summarize in the language page (ie: french page --> french summary)
- Rated 3 out of 5by Shikogo, 2 months agoI am glad that there's now a much less sketchy addon to summarize youtube videos. However, I have to agree that I hate the floating widget. My solution is to have it disabled and only enable it as needed, but I wish there was a setting to just hide it in the toolbar and the open as you click it. The floating blob is awful.
- Rated 2 out of 5by GobiNoKitsune, 2 months agoThe summaries are alright, nothing ground-breaking you can't find elsewhere. My main complaints are that it puts a 100x100 floating widget on your webpages -- who the hell thought this was a good idea? You have an extensions toolbar for a reason, Mozilla -- use it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mika, 2 months agoI like the intention, but the UI is horrible. Please hire a UX designer, because 100x100px widget is sticking out like a sore thumb. I will not use this addon until a better UI is developed.
Suggestions:
- Add option to disable the hideous overlay instead of snoozing
- Add keyboard shortcut to open Orbit
- Instead of overlay, use either addon dropdown like the rest of the addons, or a toggleable sidebar like new AI Chatbot feature in Firefox.Developer response
posted a month agoThank you for your feedback! It's incredibly valuable for us. We've made some updates to the Beta that should hopefully address a most of your concerns. - Rated 2 out of 5by Aidan, 2 months agoDisplays a large icon floating over the webpage - and it's *animated*. I'd like to try this extension, but only after this is fixed.
Edit: The new "minimal" option is less annoying, but still gets in the way. What I really want is to move it to the browser toolbar or sidebar.Developer response
posted a month agoThank you for the feedback! It's helps us iteratively improve the product. Let us know if the tweaks we've made made it a more positive experience for you. - Rated 5 out of 5by Chris, 2 months agoEasy to use add-in, I've tested many website that are doing less, or are more complex. Of course the generated website is "light", missing some features, but the job is done. I hope this tool will last and develop over time, if Mozilla has a medium-term view to help Firefox gain ground, otherwise thank you for removing this tool because people will be looking for this type of solution, but intended for Firefox users.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jure Repinc, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by SMArtgrinder, 2 months agoI'd prefer it to be a toolbar button rather than a flying slug covering the page contents.
- Rated 5 out of 5by dislocate5406, 2 months agoPretty great AI assistant. Capabilities are a little limited and I find that it also provides similar capabilities as the AI Chat in Firefox Labs, with the exception of a needed account. If there was a way to activate the AI Assistant via button or hotkey, so it's out of the way, that would be stellar.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14776589, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Avakining, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Colton, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by essi, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18596452, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14755110, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by jahtnamas, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Fxdemiurg, 2 months agoWhy such a big icon? Generalization only in English is a minus. But I found a way out of this situation. :) The icon appears on sites where I do not want to see the icon and do not want the application to work on these sites, for example sites related to finance. This is important! Please fix this! Make a setting - a black list that prohibits work on sites included in this list. If I click the close button on the icon on one site, then Orbit is disabled on all sites. This is not correct operation due to lack of blacklist.