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504 New In Firefox Nightly Builds: Copilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets, JPEG-XL Support

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 09/07/2025 11:34 EDT

New In Firefox Nightly Builds: Copilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets, JPEG-XL Support

The blog OMG Ubuntu notes that Microsoft Copilot chatbot support has been added in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. "Firefox's sidebar already offers access to popular chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Le Chat's Mistral and Google's Gemini. It previously offered HuggingChat too."

As the testing bed for features Mozilla wants to add to stable builds (though not all make it — eh, rounded bottom window corners?), this is something you can expect to find in a future stable update... C

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