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Orbit is an LLM addon/extension for Firefox that runs on the Mistral 7B model. It can summarize a given webpage, YouTube videos and so on. You can ask it questions about stuff that's on the page. It is very privacy friendly and does not require any account to sign up.

I personally tried it, and found it to be incredibly useful! I think this is going to be one of my long term addons along with uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and so on. I would highly recommend checking this out!

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m just glad it’s an add on/extension. A lot of the crap baked into browsers these days is just bloat nobody wants or uses.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is very privacy friendly [...]

What makes you believe that? The most information I could find about this is that it doesn't "save your session data." The Orbit privacy policy also seems a bit bare, and I can't decide if that's a good thing or not.

Either way, you're still sending data to a third party service to process. Might be worth it for some people.

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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe they could focus on developing a web browser instead...

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Considering how google is making chrome worse every day, they could do only security updates and still be the best browser.

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So mozilla is paying the server costs for this, what's the business model?

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The general tone in this thread seems so very different from when "Mozilla is working on AI" was first announced

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Can I just trade in that LLM for the old Firefox please?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago (8 children)

If you really care for an LLM, run it locally... Not sure if this does it...

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[–] zecg@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"we have a few potential paths to follow depending on the feedback we receive. Running a truly local LLM is one that we're researching at the moment"

In that case, fuck off with this bullshit until your research is done, that's some feedback for you.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  1. I don't think this is the proper channel for feedback.
  2. Rude
  3. Fuck you. This is an optional extension for those who want to try. Do you want the final version of a piece of free software? Then you can go lie in a ditch because hopefully it will continue to evolved for years. It's astonishing the entitlement of some people.
  4. Good local LLM that can run on most hardware is a very interesting project. Usually you need at least a GPU to get it to run. The fact that is only summarizing might be because it this.
[–] zecg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You're right, it was rude. Sorry.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Ooh, I just tried it out and I can tell I'm going to love it - if not this specific plugin (the UI needs some work) then this general concept of a plugin.

I just popped over to Youtube and went to a ten-minute video of something or other, clicked the "summarize transcript" button, and within a few seconds I had a paragraph-long summary of what the whole video was about. There have been sooo many Youtube videos over the years that I've reluctantly watched with a constant "get to the point, man!" Frustration. Now I'll know if it's worth it.

[–] xan@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Do you have the SponsorBlock add-on installed? Most videos have user-submitted sections that it lets your skip. Also, a highlighted part.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

RIGHT?!!! IT'S SO FKIN AMAZING

This is especially going to be useful for me as a student. It's just feels like browser 2.0 at this point haha

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Hm...could be useful for those times you want to read a guide but can only find one in video form

Huh, I'll have to check it out then. This will be especially useful for Louis Rossmann videos because he rambles and repeats himself a lot.

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