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Firefox Smart Window adds web-sourced AI chat with citations, tab grouping, and history previews
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Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode now pulls current web information with source links via Exa, suggests tab groups, and shows visual previews of previously visited pages during natural-language history searches.
Smart Window shifts from generating new results to surfacing and organizing what users have already seen, with cited sources and local model options that address data-retention concerns. The feature remains opt-in beta with no timeline for general availability.
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AI chats in Smart Window now pull current web info and display source links through a partnership with Exa.
Smart Window can automatically suggest tab groups, find and close duplicate tabs, and show visual previews of previously visited pages during natural-language history searches.
Users can choose from models including Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, OpenAI's oss-gpt-120b, Alibaba's Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, or their own local models, all covered under zero-data-retention contracts.
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Firefox's Smart Window update focuses on retrieval and organization rather than generative search. The Exa partnership supplies current web data with source citations inside chat responses, which addresses a common complaint about AI browsers producing unsourced answers. The tab-grouping feature finds and closes duplicates, and history search now returns visual previews of pages the user previously visited, letting people find pages by recollection rather than URL or title. Mozilla positions this as a browser-first approach, contrasting it with competitors that prioritize driving LLM queries. The feature surfaces what the user has already seen rather than generating new browsing sessions. The model-selection options span cloud and local inference. Users can pick Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, OpenAI's oss-gpt-120b, Alibaba's Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, or run their own local models. Mozilla's Ajit Varma framed this as supporting digital sovereignty, letting users choose providers aligned with their regional or privacy preferences rather than defaulting to big-tech inference. Privacy safeguards rely on zero-data-retention contracts with third-party inference providers. Mozill
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