The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet::Mozilla has announced the release of an update to its Firefox browser. In version number 118, users will find a significant innovation - a built-in translator

    • TheFrirish@jlai.lu
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      2 years ago

      that’s really good news even though I don’t use firefox anymore (sorry vivaldi user) I’m glad firefox is actually improving.

  • jman6495@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Glad to see this has made it into the browser! This has been a 🇪🇺 funded project for years now!

  • wesley@yall.theatl.social
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    2 years ago

    I’m guessing this isn’t on mobile yet?

    The number of languages available is pretty small but I do appreciate them trying to respect users privacy with this feature

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
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    2 years ago

    This was prieviously available as an addon/extension. It’s really cool they are able to do this locally, and it works well.

  • Marius@lemmy.mariusdavid.fr
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    2 years ago

    I’ve been using for a few months. Here is my opinion:

    • Translation quality is still far from good, but is good enought to be understandable.
    • Can’t translate PDF files (hope it could do it in the future, even if that mean reflowing it)
    • The extension allowed to keep translating this tab. That’s a future that, in my opinion, would be highly appreciated in the built-in translator (instead of enabling the “always translate”).
    • The language choice doesn’t correspond with what I usually need (which is chinese. But I know chinese is notably hard to translate.)
    • It seems that translation into french first goes thought a first pass of english translation. While this still produce readable result, targeting english is for now probably the best option (even thought the cost of implementing a new language translation pair doesn’t seems too high, I understand they might prioritise adding more language, at least for now. Actually, I should probably contribute to this myself if I care as much about it)
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    2 years ago

    As a long term Firefox user, I’ve been disappointed with Mozilla’s decisions in the recent years, but this is awesome. This is the kind of features Firefox should be receiving instead of useless UI changes.

  • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    It has multiple translation providers to choose from, but only shows the logo and not a name. I have no idea what the logos are except google translate

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    2 years ago

    I’ve been disappointed with Orion and Safari lately. Not ready to switch to Chrome, but maybe it’s time to give Firefox another shot.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Only these languages though:

    Bulgarian
    Dutch
    English
    French
    German
    Italian
    Polish
    Portuguese
    Spanish
    
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    2 years ago

    This was the last thing I actively used chrome for, time to fully switch over I guess now that I can translate my Russian tracker.

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    2 years ago

    Last time I checked online translators were as shit as 10 years, so I wonder how well this works.