In a new blog post, Mozilla is introducing Perplexity AI to Firefox for Desktop as a search engine option, similar to Google and Ecosia, as well as other features.
“Now, after positive feedback, we’re making it a fixture, rolling it out to more users for desktop. Perplexity provides conversational answers with citations, so you can validate information without digging through pages of results.”
Even with some obvious privacy concerns, Mozilla said Perplexity “maintains strict prohibitions against selling or sharing personal data”. Users are still in control, as they can still choose whether to use Perplexity or a different search engine.
Mozilla said Perplexity is only available on Firefox desktop (Linux, Mac & Windows) and is coming to Mobile (iOS/iPhone & Android) “in the coming months”.
In the blog post, Mozilla also mentioned some other changes made in the update besides Perplexity integration:
Profiles support: “Create and switch between different browsing setups.”
Visual search: “Powered by Google Lens, it lets you search what you see with a simple right-click on any image.”