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Firefox Offers to Reapply for Your Life Using the Tabs You Left Open
· New York time
Mozilla is adding AI form filling and webpage monitoring to Smart Window, its AI-powered Firefox browsing experience. The company says the form tool can pull information from an open portfolio or LinkedIn page and paste work history into a job application. The idea addresses a familiar irritation: information already available on one page must be entered again on another. Instead of treating every blank box as an invitation to retype a biography, the browser can help move details from the material a user has open. Webpage monitoring adds another way for the browser to assist with ongoing tasks. For a job applicant, the convenience comes with the ordinary need to check that the right information has landed in the right place. A portfolio may contain several projects, and an application may ask for a specific version of a work history. The browser's assistance is most useful when the person submitting the form remains able to review it. The larger joke is that the web spent years making people build profiles and upload résumés, only to keep asking them to enter the same facts in separate boxes. Now a browser assistant is being hired to negotiate peace between the boxes. The applicant may finally have time to concentrate on the actual job, assuming the application process allows it.
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