• browser.translations.enable

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 3 05:27:35 2023
    With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome's translation language
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    The Firefox version 117 feature list might not look all that
    impressive, but it does have a big-ticket feature that may tempt
    people back: automatic translation. The snag is it's disabled by
    default in the release version, and you'll have to manually enable it.
    Although it was enabled in the betas, Mozilla has decided to go for a
    staged rollout and not enable it for everyone until Firefox 118 in six
    weeks or so.

    The new feature is integrated, privacy-respecting machine translation
    between multiple languages. This was already possible in older
    versions, but it needed an extension, and that had two side effects.
    One is that the extension hooked deep into the core of the browser in
    ways that Mozilla wasn't comfortable about, and the other is that once
    your text had been sent out to a third-party website, it could be
    snooped upon - but the victims of any snooping would blame the
    browser, even if it wasn't the browser's fault.
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    To enable it, go to the configuration page (enter about:config in the
    address bar), and search for a setting called
    browser.translations.enable. Change that to True and restart the
    browser, and the new feature should start working. If you go to a page
    that's not in your configured system language, a new button should
    appear next to the address box, offering machine translation.

    https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/31/firefox_117/

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