# ChatAI🧠 Local Multimodal AI Assistant Sidebar

> AI assistant for firefox, supporting vision models, context aware menu, using local LLM providers, with custom configurations. It helps in summarizing, translating, explaining page&selection, and describing or extracting text from image.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/chatai](https://chrome-stats.com/d/chatai)

## Overview

- **ID:** `chatai`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** ChatAI🧠
- **Category:** web-development,search-tools,language-support
- **Daily users:** 8
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Version:** 3.4.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-07
- **First published:** 2026-07-11
- **Size:** 1.15 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/chatai/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/mauryaarun/firefox-ollamaextension](https://github.com/mauryaarun/firefox-ollamaextension)

## Description

Open source local multimodal AI assistant for firefox featuring vision, voice, RAG, with Ollama/OpenAI compatibility.

Bring the full force of cutting-edge artificial intelligence right into your Firefox sidebar—entirely offline, entirely secure.

ChatAI🧠 bridges the gap between your browser and local intelligence engines, empowering you to process documents, parse images, write code, and converse with local LLMs without leaking a single byte of data to third-party cloud servers.

🌟 Why ChatAI🧠?

<code>Zero Cloud Reliance: Connect directly to your local Ollama backend or any OpenAI-compatible API. Your conversations, prompts, and files never leave your machine.

Multimodal Vision: Drag, drop, and analyze screenshots, UI designs, or photos instantly using local vision-language models.

Contextual RAG: Feed PDFs, documentation, and web snippets to your models to instantly query your private knowledge base.

Developer-Ready Workspace: Built-in syntax highlighting, instant code-block extraction, and prompt templates designed for high-velocity coding.

Voice-Enabled: Speak your prompts fluidly for hands-free browsing and interaction.
</code>

⚙ Quick Start Guide

To unlock ChatAI🧠's full vision and text capabilities, set up a local runtime in minutes:

<code>Get Ollama: Download and install the runtime for your system from https://ollama.com/download.

Pull a Multimodal Model: Fire up your terminal and download a powerful local model to handle both text and images:

    ollama pull minicpm-v4.6 (good for cpu only system)
</code>

or

<code>    ollama pull gemma4
</code>

or
        ollama pull qwen3.6

<code>Launch &amp;amp; Sync: Open ChatAI🧠 in your Firefox sidebar, point it to your local Ollama port, and experience true private browsing intelligence.
</code>

## Rankings

- #36,595 — Overall
- #167 — assistant
- #211 — deepseek sidebar
- #223 — sidebar

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `scripting`

### Host permissions

- `http://localhost:11434/`
- `http://127.0.0.1:11434/`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/chatai)