>Do you ever need a website you're visiting translated?

Yes, I have an extension for that.

>Have you ever not understood a term or phrase on a website and had to go to wikipedia/urbandictionary/google to explain it?

I have an extension that double clicks and brings up a quick definition. If I need more, I will go to the dictionary.

>Have you ever wanted to do a 'fuzzy search' of a 300 page document (where you don't know the exact string of text to ctrl-f, but want to see where they talk about a particular topic)?

No, not really. Ctrl + F search for a dozen substrings, use table of contents if available, and I can narrow it down. This takes a few minutes.

And if I did, I'd find an extension. You see the pattern here? We solved this issue decades ago.

> Do you ever...

There probably is a big difference between 'do you ever' and 'how often do you'.

I very rarely visit websites that I want translated; so rarely that I can tolerate google translate, or copying and pasting a section of a page into a tab with gemini; so on its own, this feature wouldn't sell me a browser. Besides, as a sibling comment says, even the current non-AI-enhanced browsers offer, sometimes too intrusively, to translate a page in a non-matching language. At least Chrome does this to me.

Your second scenario happens much more frequently; but again, it is so frictionless to type the term or a phrase in a search box in another tab that I never find myself wishing for a dedicated panel in the browser that could do this for me.

Your third scenario, for me, is finding something in api docs. Like, what's that command again to git cherry-pick a range of commits? So far, just googling this stuff or asking copilot / gemini in a separate tab has always worked. I am not sure I would be upset at a browser that didn't have an inbuilt tool for doing this.

What I do want from a web browser is evergreenness, the quickest and fullest adoption of all the web specs, and great web developer tools.

> Do you ever need a website you're visiting translated?

Yes. Firefox and Chrome already offer this.

> Have you ever not understood a term or phrase on a website and had to go to wikipedia/urbandictionary/google to explain it?

Yeah. And?

> Have you ever wanted to do a 'fuzzy search' of a 300 page document (where you don't know the exact string of text to ctrl-f, but want to see where they talk about a particular topic)?

No because I ctrl-f for that topic/key words and find the text.

These are incredibly poor AI sells...

>Do you ever need a website you're visiting translated?

This feature doesn't seem like it needs a "first class agent mode."

>Have you ever not understood a term or phrase on a website and had to go to wikipedia/urbandictionary/google to explain it?

I already have right-click for that the old-fashioned way. Not sure how an "AI mode" would make it meaningfully better.

>Have you ever wanted to do a 'fuzzy search' of a 300 page document (where you don't know the exact string of text to ctrl-f, but want to see where they talk about a particular topic)?

This feature is the most usefully novel of the bunch but again doesn't seem like it needs a "first-class-citizen agent mode."

I have a hunch that the "first-class-citizen AI features" that instead will be pushed on us will be the ones that help Google sell ads or pump up KPIs for investors; Firefox doesn't need to jump on that hype train today.

Agent mode feels more like "Let the agent mode place your food delivery order for you?" No thanks, I don't think that's actually gonna give me my first choice, or the cheapest option...