[chironjit]

I connected Claude to Firefox's ai pane and honestly I feel that this a good middle ground. I don't want an AI browser but I appreciate being able to have ai access specific pages when I have questions.

My only beef is they've basically put Claude's webpage on a side pane, with all the issues of a squished webpage.

I also think having a separate mode is really the best middle ground between an all spying ai-browser and one that has none (which makes doing some things with ai more manual)

[berkes]

> Claude's webpage on a side pane, with all the issues of a squished webpage.

I have used that feature for a few weeks now and find it utterly useless.

Partly because it is squished. But mostly because it offers no value over just having a tab open with Claude (or in my case Mistral).

The extra buttons (summarize) and integration (context menu) hardly ever work (pages and selections are often too large for gpt, copilot, mistral or even claude and the sidebar just gives an error) but even if they did: what problem do these extra buttons and integrations solve? Am I missing something?

Do note that I would love integration the other way around: to have an AI agent (through an MCP for example) drive my firefox. Safely, contained, etc etc. I am not an AI luddite. I just find the firefox sidebar offering no value at all.

[chrisweekly]

I think that's exactly what people are doing w the Playwright MCP...

[prophesi]

I was also frustrated by the short context length for summarizing and found you can increase it in about:config via:

browser.ml.chat.maxLength

[trenchpilgrim]

Being able to e.g. hook up Claude Code to any webpage would be killer for both web development and task automation.

[like_any_other]

I thought the AI pane was convenient. Then I wanted to try a different AI service, and couldn't do so without losing all the content in the currently open pane. And I realized - this would be so much better if it was just a regular tab. Like we already have.