Firefox Smart Window adds form suggestions and scheduled page checks

Mozilla’s [October 27 Smart Window update](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/skip‑the‑busywork‑with‑smart‑window/) adds form suggestions based on selected browser tabs and tasks that watch pages for particular changes. Both features are available in the opt‑in Smart Window beta on desktop, in English in the United States and Canada. Additional markets are planned for the coming months. That is narrower than a worldwide rollout in standard Firefox. It also combines two different jobs: using information a person has chosen to help complete a form, and checking pages on a schedule for a requested update.

According to Mozilla’s instructions, “Fill from sources” appears when a form has at least four text fields Smart Window can help fill. The dropdown suggests a source page; an “Edit sources” option lets the person change or add tabs. Users review the proposed answers, can edit them, and submit the form themselves. Smart Window does not submit it for them.

Mozilla says information from the selected source pages is shared with Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite to detect fields and extract relevant information. That processing does not change the model selected for Smart Window chat. Ordinary saved autofill values, such as a name and address, remain on the device and can fill fields without an AI model.

The new capability currently supports text fields. Dropdown menus and PDF forms are described as areas Mozilla is exploring, rather than supported extensions of this release.

The page‑watching feature starts with a /watch task: describe the change to look for, supply the pages and choose daily or weekly checks. A task can follow up to five pages, and a user can keep up to 15 active tasks. The checks run only while the browser is open.

That last condition matters for a price alert or job‑listing search: creating the task does not establish an always‑running service after Firefox closes. Matches appear through the toolbar’s Tasks button. Desktop notifications are an additional option when enabled.

Tasks can be edited, paused or deleted. Mozilla says a task automatically pauses after 60 days without a matching change, then stops checking if 90 days pass without a change. Those inactivity rules are separate from the daily or weekly checking interval.

Mozilla [names Qwen as the model used for page monitoring](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/skip‑the‑busywork‑with‑smart‑window/) and says that, as with form filling, the user’s Smart Window chat‑model choice stays unchanged. The announcement therefore describes feature‑specific model use, rather than a single chat setting that selects every background processor. The post does not establish whether Qwen monitoring runs locally or on a server. Its selected‑tab, review‑before‑submission and browser‑open descriptions are provider‑stated boundaries, not results from an independent privacy or task‑reliability test. Conceptual illustration of reviewing a form against selected pages and checking pages on a schedule, created for OpenTools. It is not a Firefox interface, a model data‑flow diagram or evidence of a privacy or reliability result.