# IA Helper - AI Assistant

> AI assistant with multi-provider support (Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq). Context menu, chat, translation, text processing. 100% customizable. Privacy-focused.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `ia-helper`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bruno
- **Category:** web-development,search-tools,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 26
- **Weekly downloads:** 5
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-12-10
- **First published:** 2025-11-27
- **Size:** 241 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ia-helper/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Gohanado/ia-helper](https://github.com/Gohanado/ia-helper)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ia-helper/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ia-helper/privacy/)

## Description

IA Helper is a browser extension that brings a full AI assistant into your daily browsing.

KEY FEATURES
- Custom AI Agents: 6 built-in roles (General Assistant, Developer, Writer, Translator, Analyst, Teacher) and fully configurable custom agents with temperature, max tokens, top_p, frequency/presence penalty, and agent selector in the chat header.
- Complete Chat Interface: free-form chat without selecting text, local history, sidebar search, export to text, real-time streaming, text-to-speech (5 languages).
- Smart Context Menu: context-aware actions for selections, input fields, or full page; 24 presets with 140+ specialized actions; instant translation to 12 languages; correction, reformulation, summary, explanation.
- Multi-Provider Support: Ollama (local, privacy-first), OpenAI (GPT-4/3.5), Anthropic (Claude), Groq, OpenRouter (100+ models), Mistral, Cohere, Perplexity, custom endpoints.
- Advanced Output: Markdown (tables, code blocks, LaTeX), copy buttons, syntax highlighting, inline responses in inputs, model selector, multiple copy formats (Text/Markdown/HTML), stop generation/read controls, thinking support when available.
- Multilingual UI: interface in EN/FR/ES/IT/PT; force AI responses to a chosen language; automatic language detection.
- Privacy & Security: no data collection, no tracking, no ads; works fully local with Ollama; traffic only goes to the provider you configure; open source on GitHub.

HOW TO USE
1) Select text on any webpage.
2) Right-click > IA Helper > choose an action.
3) See the response in a popup or a new tab.
4) Or open the chat for free-form conversations.

REQUIREMENTS
- Configure a provider: Ollama locally or an API key (OpenAI/Anthropic/Groq/OpenRouter, etc.).
- For Ollama: install from <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/3edcc7506fbba999ea023b7d39b9e20a3d053c61ffdc1e5768a18393c13118c9/http%3A//ollama.ai" rel="nofollow">ollama.ai</a> and pull a model (e.g., llama3.2).

Free, open source, privacy-focused.

## Rankings

- #21,641 — Overall
- #5 — ai study helper
- #6 — ia
- #67 — assistant
- #73 — temperature
- #222 — openai

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `scripting`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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