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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

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[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Now that Firefox is getting in-page translation capability, Chrome does not offer any features I am missing anymore. As long as they don't start performance wars, like the shit that happened with Youtube a while ago, I'll be fine

[-] gonta@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Wait really? Is it on the stable version or do I need to install beta/nightly?

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

You can read up on it here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's fantastic if the quality is good. I only use chrome now for pages purely in Japanese that I need to deal with and can't properly read in full yet (which, living in Japan, is a fair few, heh). EDIT: Bah, no Japanese support. Oh well; some day.

[-] gonta@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, didn't realize it's an add-on. Much better because now I can use it on Librewolf. :D

[-] pine@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

you can also set browser.translations.enable to true in about:config for full-page translations. it's kinda slow and the languages are limited compared to google translate, but other than that it's fine. also, it works offline if you install the languages https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

[-] gonta@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Offline translation, nice. I'm gonna miss Opera GX stylish theme but I'm ready to ditch Chromium-based browser again, at least on desktop :D

Edit: I'be checked the add-on, unfortunately my mother language and other popular languages are not supported yet.

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