doc: document options panel, entry points, and the ChatGPT prefill limitation

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -12,6 +12,46 @@ This is an unofficial extension provided by Zavage Software Inc.
See `LICENSE.txt` for licensing terms.
## Options
Open `about:addons`, select this extension, and choose the **Options** tab
(**Preferences** on macOS and Linux). Available settings:
- **Model** *(experimental)* — a model slug such as `auto`. ChatGPT may ignore
it and use your account default; leave blank to always use the account
default.
- **Request a temporary chat** — asks ChatGPT not to save the conversation.
ChatGPT may not honour this; check its own indicator before relying on it.
- **Ask ChatGPT to use web search** — a hint to ChatGPT's interface, not a
guarantee.
- **Open in** — a new tab, a new background tab, or a new window.
- **Prompt template** — wraps your text, for example `Explain simply: {query}`.
These settings apply to the new entry points: selecting text and choosing
**Ask ChatGPT** from the right-click menu, or pressing
<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>G</kbd>. Rebind the shortcut under
**Manage Extension Shortcuts** in the Add-ons gear menu.
The `gpt <query>` address-bar search is unchanged and does not read these
settings.
The options panel, the right-click item, and the keyboard shortcut require
Firefox 112 or newer. On older versions the extension still installs and the
`gpt <query>` address-bar search still works; only these newer features are
inactive.
## Why you press Enter twice
ChatGPT no longer submits prompts that are passed to it in a URL — it fills them
into the composer and waits. So `gpt <query>` opens ChatGPT with your query
filled in, and you press Enter there to send it.
This is a change OpenAI made to chatgpt.com, not a fault in this extension, and
it is outside our control. It was a deliberate security measure: automatically
running a prompt that arrived in a link let malicious links execute instructions
in a signed-in ChatGPT session. The extra keypress is the checkpoint that
prevents that. No API key, server, or intermediary is involved either way.
## Browser Support
Firefox Desktop is the current development and release target. Chrome, Brave,
@@ -44,4 +84,14 @@ configured in Firefox search settings.
## Privacy Policy
This extension collects zero user data.
This extension has no server, no API key, and no intermediary. Nothing is
reported to Zavage Software.
- Your settings are stored in your own browser profile. If you use Firefox Sync
with **Add-ons** enabled, they sync end-to-end encrypted through your own
Mozilla account.
- When you choose **Ask ChatGPT** or press the shortcut, the text you selected
is placed in the chatgpt.com URL the extension opens for you. It goes nowhere
else.
- The extension reads a page's selected text only at the moment you invoke it,
and never reads page addresses or titles.