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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      1 year ago

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

  • wesley@yall.theatl.social
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    1 year 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

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    1 year ago

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

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    1 year ago

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

  • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year 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

  • Marius@lemmy.mariusdavid.fr
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    1 year 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)
  • Dzso@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.

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    1 year ago

    How will this offline translator affect Firefox’s memory usage? The article mentioned that it currently only supports 9 languages. If I choose a source language will it be able to translate to all other 8 languages? Why didn’t they use existing open-source software like Apertium (or did they?)?

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    1 year 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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    1 year ago

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