Firefox 118 Enters Beta Testing with the Built-In Translation Feature for Websites

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Firefox 118 Enters Beta Testing with the Built-In Translation Feature for Websites - 9to5Linux
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The translation feature is based on the Bergamot project to provide users with a privacy-aware translation engine where the translation is done locally using machine learning, it’s never sent to a third party, and it’s optimized for consumer hardware.

Neat!

Yeah, wow, this is really great if it's accurate enough.

I just showed someone last week how to use the Google translate site for this purpose, and noted how it's not really private.

Going to forward this to them

Definitely a feature I’ve missed from chrome, going to enjoy not having to rely on janky extensions

They have a Firefox translations extension which is pretty good and entirely client side. Unfortunately it didn't support many languages and didn't support Chinese or Japanese so it was a deal breaker for me.

This is cool, but beyond anything I wish the linux version of firefox used my default filepicker. It keeps choosing to use the gtk file picker instead of thunar or whatever else I choose.

It can already do that as long as your desktop environment uses portals. You just need to set the appropriate about:config flag or envvar.

TIL Firefox could use the updated GNOME File Picker with thumbnails. Just set widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker to 1 instead of 2.

For KDE.

I don't think that's possible. You can switch between gtk and kde file pickers though.

fucking finally we used to have this is xul extensions ffs

Local translation was never available in xul extensions. What are you referring to?

Nice. That is definitely a feature that Firefox currently lacks compared to Chromium (I don't use actual Chrome much).