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The Mozilla Firefox 118 web browser is now available for download ahead of its official release on September 26th, when it will be rolling out to various of the supported platforms.

I consider Firefox 118 a major release because it finally brings the built-in translation feature for websites. Previously planned for Firefox 117, the new translation feature will let you automatically translate websites from one of the supported languages to another.

The translation feature can be accessed from a new “Translate page” menu entry in the application menu (the hamburger menu on the far right side of the window). When clicked, a pop-up dialog will open in place to let you choose the languages you want to translate from and to.

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[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

If 250 MB of ram is an issue then you probably aren't doing much modern web browsing. I have what I'd think are basic pages that are using 200MB of ram. Same if you don't have the 300mb of free space, god have mercy on your soul if you've got less than a gig free.

The amount of ram this feature takes up is negligible compared the the bloat of modern webpages. Plus I'm sure there's an about:config setting to disable it if you want to go crazy.

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