[HN Gopher] New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens
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       New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens
        
       Author : ReadCarlBarks
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2025-09-27 20:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Borgz wrote:
       | >Note: Google must be set as your default search engine for this
       | feature to appear.
        
         | KronisLV wrote:
         | Seems like a fairly nice way to approach this (as long as it
         | can also be disabled in the options). Heck, might as well have
         | reverse image search context options for all the search engines
         | that support something like it.
        
       | drnick1 wrote:
       | Thankfully Firefox is FOSS, which means distro maintainers and
       | users can patch out such anti-features.
       | 
       | In the meantime, I'll stick to my Arkenfox user.js.
        
         | samtheDamned wrote:
         | This isn't really an antifeature. If someone has Google as the
         | default search engine I doubt they are going to be against
         | this. If you don't have google as the default you won't even
         | see this.
        
       | roscas wrote:
       | When possible, don't use anything from Google.
       | 
       | And this is a clear move from Google. Take this money and put
       | this on the browser...
        
         | panarky wrote:
         | If the alternative is Microsoft or Meta or Amazon or OpenAI or
         | X, then I'll happily use Google.
        
       | gpm wrote:
       | If this sticks around I hope (and mostly trust) that they'll make
       | it configurable across different image search tools.
       | 
       | Other than that this seems... fine. Good even. It's a nice to
       | have feature that isn't in the way and presumably doesn't share
       | any data at all until you explicitly tell it to.
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | Good feature. Searching an image is already an older mode of
       | Google Lens. Chrome currently allows you to search any region,
       | which is more useful for searching something from a video frame
       | or a portion of an image. Not sure why Firefox would implement
       | the older version.
        
       | stonogo wrote:
       | Why did mozilla put so much work into an extension system if they
       | were just going to shove random sponsored functionality into the
       | base install?
        
       | AlienRobot wrote:
       | I generally prefer to use https://tineye.com/ because it just
       | reverse searches instead of trying to do some voodoo with the
       | image.
        
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