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the rather useless "what's new" article for 159.1 mentions smart windows. Practically nothing is explained in detail. Where is the ICON? When do the popup to create a task appear? What windows can be monitored (and why would it not be all)? etc etc. l l Is this explained FULLY anywhere?

I don't have the icon on my location bar. I'm sure once I can even figure out how to create a watch task I'll have way more questions.

These new "news" pop ups appear on certain websites and clicking on them opens a Google Gemini summary, i have disabled all of my plug-ins and this is still occurring. they also hyperlink words when they shouldn't be, and it quite frankly is very annoying. this is WITH all of Firefox’s AI features disabled while using the DuckDuckGo NoAI search engine. when i emailed the FlowerGame owners about it they had no idea that it was there, so this seems to be a local issue i just don't know how to fix it.

After updating to the smart window(beta), the AI chatbot providers in sidebar cannot be found, if it is possible, please add it back, it is so useful. And the new features look pretty nice, cheers

Where is Smart Window? I'm finding instructions on Mozilla starting with version 150 and now nothing? Is it deprecated now that Mozilla has aligned with the big AI conglomerate? How do I fix this?

The AI sidebar seems to have lost the functionality to 'Summarize Page' for GPT, Gemini, Claude etc. I don't necessarily want to be logged in to an AI account for this but that didn't use to be an issue in Firefox 156.0.1 on 2018 MBP 2.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7.

When asked to Summarize Page' or do anything else the model spins out and glitches. Not sure why this is and have made sure all relevant config files are toggled to 'on'. Have Adblock Plus running by default and not logged in, as stated, but this didn't present any operational issues before.

Any ideas what the cause is?

With thanks,

Q

Was just trying out Smart Window for the first time. I can see the idea has potential. One thing that wold make it more useful is an obvious way to turn it off or on quickly and easily. Any tips you might have would be appreciated.

I noticed that Mistral’s AI assistant was rebranded from "Le Chat" to "Vibe" in May 2026. However, the Firefox sidebar integration still refers to it as "Le Chat," even after recent browser updates. There is obviously no coordination between Mistral and Mozilla, and vice versa...I use Vibe daily and am starting to find this anomaly a little bit annoying. It simply looks sloppy.

If I enable a chatbot in the sidebar, does that bot have access to the pages I'm viewing - for example, on a continual basis, or only if I prompt it to read a page? Does it have access to the URLs I'm visiting, etc.

The main help page explaining about the chatbot sidebar does not address this.