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if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app. i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.
Uuuh.. so take all my data, as long as it's native?
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This is not unique to FireFox. This is also possible in Chrome (Settings -> Search Engine) and looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/qxap6iI Setup the way I have in the image you can simply type @claude and your search Worth noting that Gemini also offers a URL shortcut for searching Gemini via @gemini within the Chrome browser.
Yes, I'm aware of @gemini on Chrome. If you look at how it's implemented they are purposely stashing the query into a HTTP header so it's not possible to use a simple bookmark to launch it.
I'm using AnythingLLM for this now. https://anythingllm.com/ MIT License on GitHub This week it got the X.ai API added which is what I'm using. Grok is not as good as Claude or ChatGPT yet, but don't bet against Elon. https://x.com/ServeTheHome/status/1850917031421399543 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830650370336473253 It's the desktop solution I've been looking for. If you have a heap of prompts, you can create a W…
I'm using AnythingLLM for this now. https://anythingllm.com/ MIT License on GitHub This week it got the X.ai API added which is what I'm using. Grok is not as good as Claude or ChatGPT yet, but don't bet against Elon. https://x.com/ServeTheHome/status/1850917031421399543 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830650370336473253 It's the desktop solution I've been looking for. If you have a heap of prompts, you can create a W…
A few outstanding features:
- Fast: Import ChatGPT history, loads thousands of conversations at once.
- Floating Chat: spotlight / ChatGPT desktop app like floating window.
- Customization: You can add any OpenAI compatible API (including X.ai) as a model, and just edit the url/model id
- Chat with files: Not as complete as complete as a RAG solution for now, but we feature simplicity. Basically you can drag and drop PDF files onto a session or add files/folders to a model (like custom GPT) to start chatting.
- And, yes we support light mode! And several light mode code themes as well
Is there an actual good use case for these desktop apps vs the web?
There's been some inflection point where the desktop version is now often worse than the web app. And you can't blame web tech because the web app in the browser is usually quite good.
WhatsApp on macOS has catastrophic bugs for years. I regularly can't focus the input field and have to relaunch it. Until recently, its image modal would regularly bug out and leave behind a global dimmed window that eats all input so you can't even close it.
Poe's desktop app is less polished than poe.com. Off the top of my head, its desktop app scrollbar becomes so tiny that you can't even click and drag it.
ChatGPT's desktop app is simply worse than its web app or was when I stopped using it months ago for that reason.
Youtube Music is another pointless desktop app since it's just the web app inside a web view, though at least it embraces that.
It's like the only thing going for these desktop apps is that you can alt-tab to them individually. It's time to come up with a trivial one-click first-class OS-level way to turn websites into apps and put all these sad desktop apps out of their misery.
Oh well, it's come at a good time because I've mostly soured to the idea of having to install software at all. 90% can be run in a sandboxed browser away from my file system.
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Yes, I'm aware of @gemini on Chrome. If you look at how it's implemented they are purposely stashing the query into a HTTP header so it's not possible to use a simple bookmark to launch it.
Why would they intentionally limit that?
Tangentially, what are people using to have a unified interface to query multiple LLMs? Juggling multiple apps or websites for each provider gets annoying. I was using openrouter but the chat history is only stored in browser, so I'm looking for something else now. I tried open-webui[1] and that looks pretty good but I wonder if there are better alternatives. [1] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui