Mozilla’s Firefox has been added to Chrome, Edge and other browsers, providing an overview of AI-powered, but this time. The latest version allows you to use keyboard shortcuts to open a popup that previews the link content when you hover from any web page. This is a new way for AI to integrate into a browser that may help users but harm publishers.
To try out new features, you need the latest Firefox Release channel version 139.0. In the settings under Firefox Labs, just open the link preview. “When enabled, use the Alt+Shift keyboard shortcut when hovering over the link to see the “Preview” action.”
Once opened, you can hover over a link on any web page, and the vertical window will pop up at the top, publisher’s links and quick summary. Below are the “key points” of AI generation that provide more information. Mozilla has previously stated that it uses the SmollM2-360M language model to ensure privacy by embracing faces, devices with reader view content.
The Link preview first appeared on Beta last month, but is now widely used in some areas. Like Google’s AI preview, it may risk harming publishers by reducing traffic (which is probably why none of the France I live in can use these features). It is not clear whether Firefox wants to pay publishers to use its information in AI-powered summary.
