Firefox's new 'Smart Window' mode is taking shape in development builds, so I had a play around in a beta build.

It revamped the browser UI to a prompt-based browsing experience, powered by your choice of LLM – OpenAI, Alibaba or Google – with your tabs, searches, questions and entire browsing history all handled on each company's servers...

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-smart-window-hands-on?v1

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I tried Firefox's new AI 'Smart Window' in a beta build

Firefox's new AI-powered 'Smart Window' feature is taking shape in development builds – I gave it a hands on in the latest v149.0b7 beta (on macOS).

OMG! Ubuntu

Thanks, I hate it.

> The AI reads the top results (including any AI overview), and produces a response based on them

This in particular got to me, it just actively feeds on the slop to produce more slop right in front of your eyes. The future is now. @omgubuntu