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
Us common folks may not have flying cars or jetpacks yet but this shit is pretty dope.
that’s really good news even though I don’t use firefox anymore (sorry vivaldi user) I’m glad firefox is actually improving.
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
Glad to see this has made it into the browser! This has been a 🇪🇺 funded project for years now!
This was prieviously available as an addon/extension. It’s really cool they are able to do this locally, and it works well.
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
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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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.
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?)?
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.
I still use Chrome when I need to Chromecast, any way around that?
This works, but it’s definitely a beta product, and not release quality…
Last time I checked online translators were as shit as 10 years, so I wonder how well this works.
Do people actually rate Google Translate that well? I’ve always found it lacking, but then I don’t use it anywhere near habitually.
It’s always gotten the job done for me. /shrug 🤷
It’s really neat IMO. It should’ve been there earlier
Sure. We should have had smart phones in the 80s.
And electric cars too.
