Firefox Translation (Built-In Webpage Translation)

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Website

Firefox Translation | Firefox Help

Short description

Per Translation software/services,

@ch3k

mozilla’s own firefox translations which works on-device/locally

Since that forum post, though, Firefox Translation is now a built-in feature rather than an extension. Additionally, the documentation above states that Firefox Translation is capable of translating sections of a webpage.

Why I think this tool should be added

I opened this thread to compile existing discussion about Firefox Translation into a focused thread since previous discussion occurred in Translation software/services, which contains discussion about multiple translation tools. This “megathread” makes it difficult to follow discussion about a specific tool.

I also opened this thread to invite any new discussion about Firefox Translation since, as you will read below, the tool has changed a lot since its mention in the above thread.

Existing discussion:

@anon62252234

Firefox’s webpage translations are great, but only work if you use Firefox, on the desktop.^[1]

@archerallstars

Firefox translation only supports 10 languages, and other 7 languages that’s still in development. Therefore, it isn’t usable for most people (yet), including mine.^[2]

DeepL Translator App

I just did a test with Firefox, if you have a .txt file you can open it in the browser and then use the offline translation. Could be useful for simple texts but it doesn’t work with other files like .rtf or .doc. Pdfs opened in the browser could be translated but it actually doesn’t work. Edit: that was a test in firefox for desktop, I don’t think it’s available on mobile.

Section on Privacy Guides

Language Tools, but it would not occupy a full recommendation card. Instead, it can be mentioned in the introduction to the forthcoming Translation Tools section. See the introduction to the File Sharing section on the website for an example.

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1. This observation is now outdated according to Firefox Translation | Firefox Help. ↩︎

2. As @Encounter5729 noted, this observation is now outdated according to Translate a webpage with Firefox. ↩︎

[Encounter5729]

BTW, Firefox now can translate 29 languages including English, French, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese

Most of the world population is covered.

[user1]

I would argue that Firefox is not a translation software as it can only translate web pages and it’s quite bad at it. It’s still a beta.