Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet

drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Bulgarian
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish

• MashedTech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Still impressive

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but these websites are usually already localized in English at least to some extent. Many Asian websites would benefit much more from this.

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    • ours@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s an edge case for Switzerland with 4 official languages but German being the majority. Many websites and documents “forget” to translate into other minority languages.

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• natryamar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I need japanese, any news on if that will happen?

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No news on that though AFAIK that’s the most requested one. As other comment pointed out currently these languages are WIP:

    • Russian
    • Persian (Farsi)
    • Icelandic
    • Norwegian Nynorsk
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Ukrainian
    • Dutch

    Personally I’d like to see more asian languages as that part of the web is lacking English but those languages are much harder to implement and all of this contribution here is mostly by European universities and organizations.

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    • UlrikHD@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nynorsk supporters just never quit do they. Half the country wants it gone and less than 10 percent of the country uses it, still it’s on the list while Swedish and Danish aren’t, lmao.

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      • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We already have one language.

        Yes but what about a second language?

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  • beesyrup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Me, too. I end up using TWP, and that works pretty well, minus the fact that it’s filtered through either Google Translate, Bing, Yandex or DeepL with an API key.

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    • Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I really want something that just translates kanji/kana to romaji. There was an extension in Chrome that did that and it’s the only thing I miss after switching to FF.

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      • beesyrup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        kanji/kana to romaji

        Wow, I never knew that they had a Japanese to Romaji extension. Would furigana extensions work? addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/furiganaize/?u…

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• rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s really not good. Literally all of these are European languages.

  I’d rather have it connected to a better translation service than have it be offline. I don’t understand why the translator working offline is even a plus. It’s a web browser.

  I assume there must not be any FOSS translation services they can use so this offline translator is just a consequence of that.

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s for privacy purposes. An online translator requires that all the text you’re reading be sent to a third party, which may or may not use it for nefarious purposes. E.g. maybe you translate your bank account’s web page because there’s a word you don’t know, and not Google knows how much money you have in your bank account.

    If you don’t care about that kind of privacy, then there’s no reason you couldn’t use an existing online translator. Firefox has always supported that.

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    • rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That makes sense, thanks.

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  • Gamey@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because you would always send the pages of the website you visit to a third party, that’s information noone should know!

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  • vimdiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sure they would be happy to accept your help in translating a new language.

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  • synceDD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gets 5 free stuff and bitches for not getting 50. Some people…

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  • brianorca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s fine for translating news articles, but maybe not for private email. Different people accept different risk levels in different situations.

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• Resonosity@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah this is why I still use at least 1 Google Translate extension in addition to the FF one. Need my Chinese man

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