Why isn't the Firefox Smart Tab working on firefox from Arch Repo?

laichiaheng · 2025-08-16 12:40:00

If I use it in flatpak version of Firefox, it works, but not with the Arch version of Firefox.

Lone_Wolf · 2025-08-16 12:58:48

What is the value of browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled according to about:config ?

laichiaheng · 2025-08-16 12:59:21

Lone_Wolf wrote:

What is the value of browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled according to about:config ?

true

seth · 2025-08-16 13:55:57

Works for me.

pacman -Qs firefox

do you now also have "Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" in your regular settings page?

laichiaheng · 2025-08-16 14:47:33

seth wrote:

Works for me.
pacman -Qs firefox

local/firefox 141.0.3-1
    Fast, Private & Safe Web Browser
local/firefox-extension-localcdn 2.6.80-1
    LocalCDN addon for Firefox
local/firefox-extension-plasma-integration-bin 1.9.1-2.1
    Multitask efficiently by controlling browser functions from the Plasma desktop.
local/firefox-extension-proton-vpn 1.2.7-1 (firefox-addons)
    Proton VPN extension for Firefox
local/firefox-extension-uget-integration 2.1.3.1-1 (firefox-addons)
    uGet Download Manager integration extension for Firefox.
local/firefox-i18n-zh-tw 141.0.3-1
    Chinese (Traditional) language pack for Firefox
local/firefox-ublock-origin 1.65.0-1 (firefox-addons)
    Efficient blocker add-on for various browsers. Fast, potent, and lean
local/uget-integrator 1.0.0-2
    Integrate uGet Download Manager with Google Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi, Opera and Firefox
local/uget-integrator-firefox 1.0.0-4
    Configuration to connect Firefox with uget-integrator

seth wrote:

do you now also have "Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" in your regular settings page?

It is only visible when I enable browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled, when I click "suggest more tabs for group", it runs forever.
In the flatpak version of Firefox, it pops out immediately.

By the way, I have uninstalled all other packages for firefox, it still doesn't work.

Last edited by laichiaheng (2025-08-16 14:52:40)

seth · 2025-08-16 15:35:41

So much for "not working", please read up https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
I actually get a weirdly shaped window w/ no further action at all from that.

laichiaheng · 2025-08-18 05:25:43

seth wrote:

So much for "not working", please read up https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
I actually get a weirdly shaped window w/ no further action at all from that.

Did you click the "Suggest more tabs for group"?

seth · 2025-08-18 06:53:32

Yes, that's "not working" - I got what looks like a misplaced, overcropped popup window w/ the same content as the one where I could "click here to use AI".
But after a restart I actually get what's likely the intended popup and a progressbar and it runs out and that's it. Still "doesn't work" (ie. doesn't come up w/ results after a minute)

It's an inofficial "feature" that might depend on specific build parameters used by the upstream builds.
I'm frankly not even sure what it's supposed to achieve (come up w/ a tabgroup name?) or why that would require "artificial intelligence" (read the tabs, build a language model out of that and select some word that's statistically relevant? I've a bunch of inactive tabs that would have to be loaded first, so not "local")
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dillero · 2025-09-07 10:40:24

Hi!

Not sure if this is considered necroing, but I have been struggling with the same "Suggest/Smart Tabs AI function" problem quite some time and I *couldn't find a solution.

Problem:
When clicking the "Suggest more tabs for group" in the Group / Smart Tab menu I only get grey bars (like it was doing something) but nothing happens, no matter how long you waited.

Did a quite a bit of digging around to finally solve my problem the hard way (checking out debug logs in Firefox vs Flatpak version, javascript code etc. and actually found the root cause), only to find out that the information and solution was right in front of my face all the time:
pacman -Si firefox

Shows:
Optional Deps :
...
onnxruntime: Local machine learning features such as smart tab groups
...

Aargh... TL;DR:
Just install the onnxruntime package if you want the local AI stuff to work .

Last edited by Dillero (2025-09-07 10:40:47)

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Why isn't the Firefox Smart Tab working on firefox from Arch Repo?

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