# Page Assist - A Web UI for Local AI Models

> Use your locally running AI models to assist you in your web browsing.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `page-assist`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Muhammed Nazeem
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 9,321
- **Weekly downloads:** 408
- **Rating:** 4.67 / 5 (76 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5.82
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-09
- **First published:** 2024-05-13
- **Size:** 7.00 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/page-assist/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist](https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/page-assist/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/page-assist/privacy/)

## Description

Page Assist is a powerful Chrome extension that lets you utilize your locally running AI models directly within your web browser. It provides a sleek and minimal web interface acting as a sidebar for various AI-assisted tasks, supporting vision models alongside text-based interactions.

With Page Assist, you can chat and interact not only via AI but also take advantage of internet search capabilities. It supports chatting with documents including PDFs, CSVs, text, and markdown files. Compatible with local AI providers like Ollama and beta support for OpenAI-compatible APIs such as LM Studio and Llamafile, this extension seamlessly integrates local AI power into your browsing experience for productivity and convenience.

## Rankings

- #806 — Overall
- #112 — Other extensions
- #1 — model
- #8 — web page
- #32 — ai
- #61 — page

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `contextMenus`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `notifications`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`
- `file://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `huggingface.co`
- `ollama.com`
- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High 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 similar fingerprint to known malware: ainkdbjaadekkhdohfibjgdoaadkfajk. Match ratio: 0.6704545454545454.

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## Review summary

Reviewers praise Page Assist as a fast, lightweight, privacy-friendly front end for local AI models. It supports Ollama and OpenRouter, is easy to set up, and provides a feature-rich UI with a sidebar, document chat, OCR/vision tools, and internet search. Users highlight efficiency, flexibility, and the ability to replace cloud-based workflows with summarization and rephrasing shortcuts. A few questions remain about exact web-search capabilities for hosted LLMs versus local endpoints, and minor UI/icon preferences.

### Pros

- Easy to set up and works out of the box with local LLMs (e.g., Ollama).
- Supports multiple models and is compatible with Ollama and OpenRouter.
- Lightweight and resource-efficient design.
- Feature-rich UI with a sidebar, chat-capable documents, OCR/vision tools, and internet search.
- Helps users work privately offline, replacing cloud-based workflows with shortcuts for summarization and rephrasing.

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