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Backboard.io for Firefox: AI that can see your webpage
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Backboard.io for Firefox: AI that can see your webpage

via Dev.to WebdevChris King5h ago

Most browser AI tools still work like this: You find something on a page You copy it You paste it into a chat window You explain the context Then you finally get help That workflow is clunky. The Backboard.io Firefox extension changes that by giving you AI that can actually see the webpage you’re on . It works with the page in context, so instead of stripping information out of your workflow, you can ask for help right where the work is happening. Why this matters A lot of AI tooling still behaves like it’s blind. It can generate text, sure. But if it doesn’t understand the page in front of you, then you’re stuck doing the translation work: explaining what you’re looking at copying sections over manually reconstructing context switching tabs constantly Backboard.io is built to remove that friction. With the Firefox extension, AI can help you based on the actual webpage you’re viewing. That means faster: summarization research extraction drafting page-aware Q&A workflow support AI help,

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