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Re: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

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Post by busssard »

peri-cl wrote: post #5

This is an excellent use case for completely local, small model inference, yet for inexplicable reasons Mozilla wants to normalize uploading your entire private browsing history to a cloud. These (Mistral's and Mozilla's) marketing pages aren't candid enough to clearly explain the difference between local and cloud inference, and that they're asking you to consent to enabling the latter. I'd call that the bare minimu…

its up to us to make extensions that are so famous that they can be integrated into the browser functionality i guess

Re: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

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Post by input_sh »

spwa4 wrote: post #21
peri-cl wrote: post #5

This is an excellent use case for completely local, small model inference, yet for inexplicable reasons Mozilla wants to normalize uploading your entire private browsing history to a cloud. These (Mistral's and Mozilla's) marketing pages aren't candid enough to clearly explain the difference between local and cloud inference, and that they're asking you to consent to enabling the latter. I'd call that the bare minimu…

Except ... this is not local. It's a remote service. Here is something that is: docker run ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:v0.11.3 docker run mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/mcp:latest Configure them. Open-webui needs a model (a local qwen3.8 does amazing), and you need to link them up. Playwright will just do stuff.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/smart-window-byom

Also supports Lemonade and Ollama, which are.

Re: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

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Post by amelius »

_flux wrote: post #30
amelius wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wouldn't be cool because it would still hand your data to Google.

I assume Google was just a placeholder for a search engine in the example. And you'll surely need some service to search the web.

It could anonymize the data, at least.

Re: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

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Post by duskdozer »

_flux wrote: post #30
amelius wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wouldn't be cool because it would still hand your data to Google.

I assume Google was just a placeholder for a search engine in the example. And you'll surely need some service to search the web.

I don't know about that. When I hear people reference "Google" it seems to me they do mean Google. Similar with "Claude".

Re: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

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Post by sajithdilshan »

ulimn wrote: post #13
sajithdilshan wrote: post #7

Didn’t OpenAI tried to build even a new AI browser and failed? I honestly don’t need AI in my browser and would not let an agent to access my login credentials/cookies/saved payment methods for various sites.

It's pretty nice for tedious tasks. I tried to have it look through job listings based on my criteria. It burned through my 5h Claude quota, but what I got was pretty impressive. I agree on the privacy concerns but this could be useful with a local model, I think.

For me it’s not only privacy, I just don’t trust an agent to use my credentials without doing any destructive task because unlike an MCP, I cannot enforce any permission model on the browser

Re: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

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Post by layer8 »

mixcocam wrote: post #26

Would be very cool if you could type a long query and the model would just build an advanced google search query using what you typed. You could even ship a tiny model in the browser itself that does that. Something like: "blog posts which talk about using sending emails to yourself as a notes taking mechanism". The output could look like: "note taking" OR "notes" ("emailing yourself" OR "email to myself" OR "email y…

That’s a great idea, and would be a much better feature than the unimaginative things Mozilla has been implementing. It’s so disappointing.

Re: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

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Post by mugul »

RicDan wrote: post #2

This sounds great, will have to try it out. Interested in the business value they gain from this, as this appears to be free. I guess for mistral it's great marketing material. Edit: Quite interested in the differences of local optimizations... that does allow for specific sensorship, but alas that's already possible in a more direct, reliable way.

I think that beyond marketing this is also a way to collect "AI browsing" trajectories. Not an expert but I think this is the kind of great quality data that can be useful when training LLMs.

Re: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

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Post by Forgeties79 »

duskdozer wrote: post #34
_flux wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume Google was just a placeholder for a search engine in the example. And you'll surely need some service to search the web.

I don't know about that. When I hear people reference "Google" it seems to me they do mean Google. Similar with "Claude".

People still use “Google” as a synonym for “online search.”
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