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rdsubhasyesterday at 9:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

How is the built-in website translation story in Firefox? To be honest, the only reason I'm forced to use Chrome is the way translate quite seamlessly works, both the detection (with mixed-language content in sites with English ads) and the actual translation.

I did try Bergamot but that was a year ago, and the experience was not as good as Chrome...


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nagisayesterday at 9:50 PM

There are a couple built-in ways you can translate, all of them fully local. First is the full page translation and another that allows you to translate a selection (from the context menu.) Fully local nature, of course, reduces the translation capabilities, but I found the quality to be good enough to very rarely need an external service.

OuterValetoday at 12:02 AM

Really good. I use it frequently and haven't had any reason to switch to an external offering. It can translate the whole page or just a snippet that you highlight.