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27 Firefox Feature Gets Special Mention In TIME's Best Inventions of 2025

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 3 place · 10/09/2025 20:45 EDT

Firefox Feature Gets Special Mention In TIME's Best Inventions of 2025

Mozilla Firefox's new "Shake to Summarize" feature earned a spot on TIME's Best Inventions of 2025, allowing users to shake their phone to instantly summarize long web pages. Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, general manager of Firefox, calls it a "testament to the incredible work of our UX, design, product, and engineering teams who brought this innovation to life." Neowin reports: Shake to summarize works exactly how you suspect: you physically shake your phone to generate a summary of a long article. This can be quit

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