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  1. oai-voice-mode-chat-mac

    Adds realtime chat for ChatGPT Voice Mode [Unofficial]

    Here's a version of that which should work for any page, whether or not they allow ChatGPT URL access:

        javascript:window.open('https://chatgpt.com/?q=summarize this page in 100 words: '+encodeURIComponent(document.body.innerText),'_blank');

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  3. prompt-api

    💬 A proposal for a web API for prompting browser-provided language models

    I wish they would copy this one https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api and include a few options for small self-hosted LLMs using WebGPU or some built-in accelerated AI for Firefox.

  4. llamafile

    Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.

    I'm encouraged that they're actively exploring this and not shying away from experiments. It seems clear to me that there are areas of Mozilla[0],[1] pushing closer and closer to great local AI integrations doing the kinds of things that I, a browser user, find useful. I went to some of the articles on the hn frontpage and had questions (and followups!) that begat reasonable starting points for further learning.

    Hopefully they continue to iterate on this with better integration (for instance, moving to a toolbar icon instead of persistent badge on every page) and then make it ~truly privacy respecting by moving locally.

    [0] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

  5. translations

    The code, training pipeline, and models that power Firefox Translations

  6. uBlock

    uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

    *uMatrix is unmaintained, and uBlock Origin can do fine-grained control – it just requires the “advanced user” setting for some reason, even if you expand the panels all the way. https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/quick-guide:-popup-us... (see “I am an advanced user!” expanding section at the bottom)

  7. llama-explain-extension

    Related, I made a small extension for chrome that talks to ollama: https://github.com/tobias-varden/llama-explain-extension

  8. ai-summary-helper

    Fetch and insert AI-generated summaries of web content. Combine with Send To Kindle for quick summaries and full articles. Support for Mistral and OpenAI

    Unfortunately no BYOLLM. Brave supports bringing your own LLM e.g. through Ollama

    Besides that I'm using AI Summary Helper plugin for Chromium-based browsers https://philffm.github.io/ai-summary-helper/ which also allows using Ollama (or OpenAI / Mistral), asking questions to articles and inserting summaries right into the DOM (which is perfect for hoarding articles / forwarding them to Kindle)

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  10. addons

    ☂ Umbrella repository for Mozilla Addons ✨ (by mozilla)

    https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/3145

    Worth noting that the comment closing the issue mentions:

    > You can disable Google Analytics in about:addons by setting your Do Not Track status to on.

    > Again: this only affects users who visit the page with Tracking Protection on (which automatically enables DNT) or who manually set their DNT status to on.

    but Firefox removed the DNT control last month (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1928087), though it kept the Tracking Protection control and privacy.donottrackheader.enabled is still available in about:config.

  11. vertex-ai-samples

    Notebooks, code samples, sample apps, and other resources that demonstrate how to use, develop and manage machine learning and generative AI workflows using Google Cloud Vertex AI.

    It's Google Cloud Platforms "AI" service[0], so actually more analogous to what is now called Azure AI Foundry[1], and what used to be called Azure OpenAI Studio.

    Microsoft Copilot Studio[2] (formally Power Platform Power Virtual Agents) imho is unique in it's enterprise AI offering. I truly think Copilot Studio is going to be Microsoft's "killer app" when it comes to companies utilizing AI at scale internally, and not it's Azure service.

    0. https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai

    1. https://ai.azure.com/

    2. https://copilotstudio.microsoft.com

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