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submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

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[-] tablesitter@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

But they killed the fox in their new logo :(

[-] Strawberry 3 points 1 year ago

I have custom CSS for my FF to display an old logo in the title bar

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That logo is a lot better than their current one.

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[-] llii@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I've installed the add-on manually a few weeks ago and it works surprisingly well. It's now my go-to translation tool for websites.

[-] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Got Firefox 118 and the very first website I tested it on failed. Does not translate Russian. Seriously? smh, hope they add more languages in the near future because other browsers have had this feature for years.

[-] AndreTelevise@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It's really neat IMO. It should've been there earlier

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[-] dopeshark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox rocks! (And subsequent forks of it)

[-] American_Jesus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

But you can visit websites offline, you can self-host but then you already use a language that you understand.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 6 points 1 year ago

I guess the offline it's mostly to advertise privacy. Or maybe can it translate pdf documents?

[-] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not necessarily. A lot of great open source web based projects are written in languages that I sure as heck do not understand. This is a great feature for all those cases, as well as the other cases of offlined content.

More importantly, the reason this is being highlighted is because it means your website data isn’t going anywhere off your computer to be translated.

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