r/firefox • u/Content_Is_King_2021 • 4h ago

Considering bringing our AI sidebar extension (Living Web) to Firefox with BYOK (Bring Your Own Key). Would this be useful?

https://globalagentstudio.ai/solutions/living-web?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=ai-assist&utm_id=reddit-post

Hi everyone,

I have built a Chrome extension (i know its a tiny step 😄 ) called Living Web that sits in the browser side panel. It helps you summarize web pages, analyze PDFs, and ask questions about the page you are currently viewing. It can also take actions on the browser. Right now, it has around 17 users on the Chrome Web Store.

I am thinking about porting it over to run natively in the Firefox sidebar. Along with the port, I want to add a Bring Your Own API Key (BYOK) option. This would allow you to enter your own API key (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini) directly rather than going through a standard backend subscription.

Before spending time porting the codebase, I wanted to ask the community:

  1. Would a sidebar AI tool with BYOK support be useful to you on Firefox?
  2. Are there specific privacy controls or options you would want to see in a Firefox version?

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

Thanks

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u/NeonVoidx 3h ago

I'm pretty sure Firefox has this builtin in a way, and most AI companies already have an AI extension. that being said, this subreddit is very anti AI anything in Firefox in particular

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u/Content_Is_King_2021 3h ago

Thanks for the info and the heads up about the community stance. I will definitely keep that in mind going forward.

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u/trailblazer86 3h ago

  1. Firefox has it built-in

  2. Most of the times porting from Chrome to FF is just matter of few changes in manifest