Smart Window launches in North America and France with privacy guarantees
3 Sep 16 10:25 AM · 11d ago · 1 article · 1 source · development 3 of 3
Mozilla's Firefox unveiled the Smart Window AI assistant powered by Mistral, with chatbot prompts and responses not saved on Mozilla servers and Mistral promising no retention of private data. The assistant will first be available in North America and France, with rollouts to Britain and Germany later in 2026.
“We are bringing privacy, control and choice to AI-powered web browsing”
Arthur MenschMistral French AI startupMozilla Web browser and non-profit organizationArthur Mensch Mistral chief executiveAnthony Enzor-DeMeo Mozilla chief executive
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first by Pulse 2.0, 11d ago · also Thurrott, TestingCatalog AI News, Wall Street Journal
3 more headlines
- Mozilla Partners with Mistral on Firefox Smart Window Thurrott · 11d ago
- Mistral models now power Firefox Smart Window TestingCatalog AI News · 11d ago
- Mistral partners with Mozilla to power Firefox's AI browsing assistant, Smart Window, in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026 Wall Street Journal · 11d ago
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first by The Decoder, 11d ago
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What the fuck is the point of this?What is Mistral bringing to the table for Firefox? There is nothing "open" about this in any way.FF needs to either profile itself as the no-ai-by-default browser, or it needs to just have OpenAI/Anthropic/Mistral/DeepSeek bid for the default spot - like they do with Google search.I'm happy Mistral exists. I'm…
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Mozilla are doing more AI stuff, this time with Mistral. At some point maybe they'll release the usage figures from their telemetry for the existing AI features. I mean, if the numbers were good, they'd publish them, so it's an incredibly reasonable inference to conclude they're probably really shit and completely undermine Mozilla's AI strategy…
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> This is an excellent use case for completely local, small model inferenceI remember using a small model for autocomplete, I think it was Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B way back, on a laptop with 32 GB of RAM and a 13th Gen Intel i7 CPU. It made the fans spin up and loaded things so much (Ollama back then) that it was largely unusable for doing software…
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Bonjour! Firefox Smart Window Users Now Get to Use a French AI https:// feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17 465081/firefox-smart-window-mistral
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I suppose some clarity would have been nice but I try to err on the side of charitable interpretation with these things, especially with how much MDS there tends to be in the hn comment sections. This does just seem to be like a high level announcement of the overall partnership, though some clarity over local versus cloud would have been nice.But…
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They misspelled their own company name:"...working together to bring Mistal’s scientific innovations to consumers around the world"A quick proof-read wouldn't have gone amiss here.I also fail to see how privacy is enhanced by sending private browsing data to a cloud service which then forwards it to an LLM, in addition to storing 'memories' and…
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Firefox/Mozilla really lost the plot.Remember when it was the fastest thing around and simple?Now it's an also ran. AI doesn't help here. Focus on what made it great in the beginning, make it the most performant browser around. Put Fable on the case if need be. Do the browser thing well!
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So now mistral has partnership with browser + user logs from Mozilla. Does it means that they are trying to build their own search index? Because it’s kinda huge inference investment in exchange for what? Any other ideas why they need this?
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These are two companies that seem to be slipping in ethics recently. I'd prefer this over a chrome and openai offering, but I no longer trust these two to necessarily do the right thing regarding privacy
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Pretty keen on the private, multilingual aspect here. Could be a real game-changer for digging through non-English dev docs.
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Hold the AI, just give me a zen/Vivaldi like autohiding vertical tab stack and we're good.
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