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Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

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Why did mozilla put so much work into an extension system if they were just going to shove random sponsored functionality into the base install?

If you select text and right click, there's already an option to do a web search. This is a pretty obvious addition to that.

Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

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I've been using this extension to have this functionality for years: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-search-...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_ima... is even better in my opinion, it supports multiple image search engines at the same time

Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

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I generally prefer to use https://tineye.com/ because it just reverse searches instead of trying to do some voodoo with the image.

I prefer Google Lens because the voodoo it does is far more than just image search, and is genuinely useful to me. I use it to translate text in images multiple times a day (I live in a country where I'm not a native speaker). I've used it to identify birds, plants, and even furniture - it found me the local shop for a table in a cafe that I liked, which was pretty amazing.

I'm not a Google fan, in fact I actively try to choose alternatives where possible, but they do make some good products not matched by anyone else, and it's not useful to pretend that isn't the case. Lens is one such product, Maps is another... Ok maybe that's it, since I use LLMs for most translation tasks these days.

Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

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I've been using this extension to have this functionality for years: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-search-...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_ima... is even better in my opinion, it supports multiple image search engines at the same time

Agree, this is what I use. Wish Kagi reverse image search was better.
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