Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer

Name: Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer
Rating: 3.9006 (161 reviews)
Author: Firefox

Save time with Orbit while juggling emails, diving into lengthy docs, skimming articles, or watching videos. Orbit provides concise summaries, helping you grasp essential information quickly without sacrificing your privacy.

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Orbit is an AI-powered Chrome extension designed to enhance your productivity by delivering quick, concise summaries of emails, lengthy documents, articles, and video transcripts from popular sites such as Gmail, Google Docs, and YouTube. It offers an interactive Q&A feature allowing users to ask specific questions about page content, helping find critical information faster. With customizable summary lengths and formats, Orbit caters to your unique needs.

Privacy is paramount—Orbit requires no account creation and doesn't save your session data or train AI models on your inputs, ensuring your information remains secure. Recent features include a dark mode, toolbar access, customizable visibility options, and right-click shortcuts for easy summarization. Currently in beta and available only in English, Orbit is perfect for anyone seeking to streamline their online reading and viewing experience.

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By:

Firefox

Daily users:

10,427+ 200

Rating:

3.90

(161) 0.02

Version:

1.3.3 Last updated: 2025-04-10

Version code:

5923026

Creation date:

2024-05-16

Risk:

Permissions:

identity
menus
storage
tabHide
tabs
*://localhost/*
contextMenus
http://*/*
https://*/*

Size:

5.88M

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 757 ▲ 3

Other rankings

#37 in Feeds, News & Blogging ▼ 1

#69 in Social & Communication ▲ 3

#109 in Photos, Music & Videos

#1 in ai keyword 75

#1 in assistant keyword 37

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User reviews

Orbit [Beta] is a lightweight and free Firefox add-on that provides decent summarization of web pages and videos, quickly responding to user requests. However, multiple users report concerns about the extension not being open source, leading to doubts about privacy and data handling. The add-on also lacks customization features, such as custom prompts or connecting to external AI models, limiting flexibility. Its language support is limited mainly to English, and responses are often brief and not very detailed, making it less versatile than other AI assistants.

Pros

Provides decent summarization of web pages and content.
Lightweight and quick to respond to requests.
Free to use.
Works well with YouTube videos.

Cons

Not open source, raising privacy and trust concerns.
Lacks customization options such as adding custom prompts.
Supports only a limited number of languages, mostly English.
Does not allow connection to local or external AI models or APIs like OpenAI or Google Gemini.
Responses tend to be brief and lacking detail or creativity.

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

Orbit [Beta]: AI Assistant and Content Summarizer is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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