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Title: Firefox 142's Link Previews Have a New Option: AI-Generated Summaries

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/24/0547...

"Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla's browser now makes even
more extensive use of AI," writes the Register, "providing summaries of
linked content and offering developers the ability to add LLM support to
extensions." Firefox 142 brings some visible shininess, but due to the
combination of regional restrictions and Mozilla's progressive rollout
system, not everybody can see all the features just yet... Not geofenced but
subject to phased rollout are link previews, for various native-English-
speaking regions. Hover over, long-press, or right-click a link and pick
Preview Link, and a summary should appear. Mozilla's summary says: "Previews
can optionally include AI-generated key points, which are processed on your
device to protect your privacy." "Link Previews is gradually rolling out to
ensure performance and quality," Firefox says in their release notes, "and is
now available in en-US, en-CA, en-GB, en-AU for users with more than 3 GB of
available RAM." (The notes also add a welcome for "the developers who
contributed their first code change to Firefox in this release, 20 of whom
were brand new volunteers!" The Register notes that Firefox 142 also gives
developers the ability to add LLM support to extensions using wllama, a Wasm
binding interfacing with llama.cpp, which lets you run Meta's Llama LLM and
other models, locally or in the cloud.

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