Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• blami@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doing same thing right now… only two things I will miss are chromecast and page translation.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good news about page translation, Firefox is adding it, and it’s all done locally too, no phoning home to their or somebody else’s translation servers.

    I wonder if there’s an extension for Chromecast support? Might be worth looking into

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    • Sentau@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good news about page translation, Firefox is adding it, and it’s all done locally too, no phoning home to their or somebody else’s translation servers.

      Till then there is this open source extension which provides the same functionality including local offline translation

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sadly, no, there is no chromecast extension (which I am aware of).

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Actually there is one, but it’s not very good if I’m being honest ( but workable).

        I’m kind of surprised that no open source project of renown has ever decided to implement that on Firefox well.

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  • Sentau@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For translation you use this. Since you can use Google translation service as the backend(?), it works as good as Google translate atleast in my experience

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    • blami@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks a lot, this extension looks very much as what I need. I wish Apple stopped their WebKit policy on iPhone so I could use it on mobile Firefox too…

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  • CapnAssHolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For the time being I’m using TWP for translation. Seems to work flawlessly

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  • riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m using 2 extensions from the Firefox store, Simple Translate and Translate This Page. If one goes down, I use the other. Sometimes I use translate.yandex.ru as well.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think libretranslate has a extension but I could be wrong

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    only two things I will miss are chromecast and page translation.

    You can use your phone to start the chromecasting, and translate.google.com lets you also put in a weblink to translate a whole page at once.

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Use Ublock if you haven’t (Firefox extension)

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  • CharAhNalaar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • Ublock Origin, not Ublock

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    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is there just a Ublock? I’ve only ever seen Ublock origin

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• Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The only issue is I have to keep a chromium browser because there are a few sites that Firefox has issues with. But the vast majority work fine.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can you not use those sites? The reason they don’t work is because there userbase uses chrome.

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  • time_lord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Use Edge.

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• Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve only had issues with Nordpass crashing occasionally when auto-filling, but it’s otherwise pretty seamless

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• jcit878@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  the main thing holding me back is the password manager in Chrome and having to basically use 2 browsers as passwords are slowly saved to a new system

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  • avatar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do yourself a favour and get Bitwarden or similar. Browser password managers are way too vulnerable.

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