What is the Doubao Browser Extension
The Doubao Browser Extension is an AI smart assistant tool launched by ByteDance, enhancing users' browser experience through AI technology. It integrates a variety of practical features, includingAI Q&A, content summarization, translation,smart search, one-click bookmarking, and more. Users can quickly obtain information through word-selection translation, dialog box questions, and other methods. It can intelligently summarize and translate content such as web pages, documents, and videos, helping save time and improve learning and work efficiency.
Main Features of the Doubao Browser Extension
- AI Q&A and Dialogue: Users can ask questions anytime in the browser, and Doubao will provide immediate answers and suggestions to help solve problems in study, work, or life.
- Content Summarization and Extraction: It can quickly summarize the content of web pages, documents, videos, etc., extract key information, and help users efficiently obtain core points.
- Translation Feature: Supports word-selection translation and full-text translation, covers multiple languages, and provides customizable translation settings, such as showing the original text, underlining the translation, etc.
- Smart Search: Optimizes search results, automatically organizes information, and provides a more precise search experience.
- One-Click Bookmarking: Users can quickly bookmark web pages, PDFs, videos, and other content, manage them uniformly in the Doubao bookmarks folder, and conveniently refer to them later.
- AI Reading Companion: Assists in reading English documents and other materials, provides full-text translation and question-asking functions, and helps users better understand the content.
- Creative Writing Assistance: Provides writing assistance functions such as article openings, paragraph continuation, and summarization, inspiring creativity and improving writing efficiency.
- Text-to-Image Conversion: Converts text content into images, adding more forms of information expression.
- Email Writing Assistance: Helps users quickly write emails, provides templates and suggestions, and improves communication efficiency.
How to Use the Doubao Browser Extension
- Installation Method
- Download the extension: Visit theDoubaoofficial website and click to download the browser extension.
- Open the browser extensions page: Taking Google Chrome as an example, enter
chrome://extensionsand press Enter. - Enable Developer Mode: In the upper right corner of the extensions page, enable "Developer mode".
- Drag and Drop Installation: Drag the downloaded extension file (the file named `豆包插件 v1.x.x .crx`) into the extensions page, and click "Add extension".
- Log In to Your Account: After installation is complete, log in to your Doubao account to start using it.
- Usage Method
- Sidebar Panel: Click the Doubao icon on the browser to open the sidebar panel, where you can perform operations such as dialogue, translation, and summarization.
- Word-Selection Translation: Select text on a web page, right-click and choose "Translate," or use the word-selection toolbar to translate.
- Content Summarization: Click the "Summarize this webpage" button, and Doubao will automatically extract the key information from the webpage to generate a summary.
- AI Search: Enter a question in the plugin, and Doubao will search online and provide accurate answers.
- Custom Skills: Users can customize the skills in the text selection toolbar according to their needs, for example, generating Xiaohongshu copy with one click.
- Notes
- If problems such as "Cannot add apps, extensions, and user scripts from this website" occur during installation, it is likely that the Google Chrome version is not the latest. It is recommended to upgrade or reinstall in Browser - Help - About Google Chrome.
- Other Browser Support: The Doubao plugin supports installation and use in Microsoft Edge browser and Safari browser.
- Microsoft Edge Browser
- Use the latest version of Microsoft Edge browser.
- Click 'Get' and click 'Add extension' to Microsoft Edge.
- The pop-up page displays 'Installation complete', and the installation is successful.
- Safari Browser
- In the App Store, download the Safari browser Doubao plugin.
- Click to open the Doubao plugin, and follow the prompts to open the 'Safari extension menu'; check the box next to Doubao; allow permission to run on all websites.
- If you see the Doubao avatar in the Safari browser navigation bar, the installation is successful.
- Microsoft Edge Browser
Application scenarios of the Doubao browser plugin
- Learning and Research: Quickly translate and summarize academic literature and papers to assist reading and understanding.
- Daily Work: Writing emails, creative writing, organizing notes.
- Information Acquisition: Quickly summarize webpage content and video summaries to improve browsing efficiency.