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

@omgubuntu Even if you 'like' AI, it is mind-boggling to me that the one browser that clearly isn't capable of building their own competitive AI model would go all-in on AI.

To me the logical step for building a better product would be trying to set themselves apart from the competition.

That said, considering they made the majority of their money with the Google search deal, I suspect they're trying to position themselves to do the same with AI. Never was about building the best product.