I’ve been looking at browsers that come with built-in AI assistants, and while the idea itself is appealing, I don’t want to leave the browser I already use. So I turned to the AI browser extensions.

I’m a curious person, but also a lazy one. Sometimes I find myself seeking answers to random questions, like “how heat propagates through space”, and I often don’t want to google it or switch context to a separate AI chat tool.

Because of that, the idea of an assistant that is always at hand and doesn’t force a big context switch feels like a good fit for me.

But I wonder, what would motivate you to use an AI browser assistant? And on the other hand, what would make you avoid such a tool entirely?