Mozilla is shutting down even more tools, including Orbit and Deepfake Detector
Deepfake Detector is going away on June 26
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Mozilla is trimming its Firefox services lineup. After announcing the end of Pocket and Fakespot, the company has now confirmed that Orbit and Deepfake Detector are also shutting down.
Pocket, the popular read-it-later app Mozilla acquired in 2017, will stop working on July 8, 2025. Users have until October 8 to export their saved content. Fakespot, which flagged fake product reviews, is also being retired.
Orbit and Deepfake Detector are next to go
Folks over at Neowin spotted a shutdown notice for Deepfake Detector, Mozilla’s AI-text analysis extension. It will go offline on June 26. The same date applies to Orbit, Mozilla’s privacy-focused AI sidebar for Firefox.
Orbit gave users private, on-device summaries using Mistral 7B, but Mozilla says the built-in Firefox sidebar with third-party bots like ChatGPT will take its place.
These cuts are part of Mozilla’s shift to double down on Firefox. With fewer resources than big-tech-backed browsers, the company says it needs to focus where it counts.
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