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Meet Orbit, Mozilla's AI Assistant Extension for Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] apis@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it worked initially, then more often than not my searches produced no results or confusing error messages.

Experimented a lot with the SearxNG settings, and also with my browser and firewall settings in case there was some issue there, and eventually gave up.

I was unable to find information online about the issues I experienced, in part because I had no idea how to describe them in order to find help.

Think I tried it in three different browsers, over the course of a month or so, but primarily in Firefox.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

To be honest, I never tried publicly available instances of any privacy front-ends (SearxNG, Nitter, Redlib etc.). I always self-host and route all such traffic via VPN.

My initial issue with SearxNG was with the default selection of search engines. Default inclusion of Qwant engine caused irrelevant and non-english results to return. Currently my selection is limited to Google, Bing and Brave as DDG takes around 2 sec to return result (based on the VPN server location I'm using).

If you still remember the error messages, I might help to help fix that.