Firefox 118 Is Now Available for Download with Built-In Translation for Websites
Firefox 118 Is Now Available for Download with Built-In Translation for Websites
The Mozilla Firefox 118 web browser is now available for download ahead of its official release on September 26th, when it will be rolling out to various of the supported platforms.
I consider Firefox 118 a major release because it finally brings the built-in translation feature for websites. Previously planned for Firefox 117, the new translation feature will let you automatically translate websites from one of the supported languages to another.
The translation feature can be accessed from a new “Translate page” menu entry in the application menu (the hamburger menu on the far right side of the window). When clicked, a pop-up dialog will open in place to let you choose the languages you want to translate from and to.
This is huge. Big feature I was using chrome for and a privacy focused provider too.
26Translation is really cool. It's rare we get new features these days, mostly it's just better and better tracking protection which is nice also, but this feels very fresh.
Just keep doing things Google will never do, and show why it's better for the user.
18Just keep doing things Google will never do, and show why it’s better for the user.
I get that but Google has had built-in translation for years! There are other features that Chrome and Chromium-based browsers have that Firefox still doesn't including, some sort of implementation of tab groups, easy profile switching, having multiple open simultaneously with only one copy of Firefox (you don't need multiple copies of Chrome to have multiple profiles).
2uuuuuh what?
Google has had built-in translation for years
Nope. The translation is not built in into Chrome. It's running on Google. That's like saying Chrome has "built-in Wikipedia"!
some sort of implementation of tab groups
There's like 12 to choose from in Firefox. (Still, admittedly, not nearly as good enough as Tab Groups were in Opera Presto, or in Firefox Aurora)
easy profile switching
this one is defo conceded. There is a profile manager, but they've never made it accessible while Firefox is itself running, not that I know.
having multiple open simultaneously with only one copy of Firefox
¿???? This has existed since at least 2011 in Firefox. Not to mention there's also
--no-remote.1Floorp has those features and I've been thinking about switching for a while.
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8If 250 MB of ram is an issue then you probably aren't doing much modern web browsing. I have what I'd think are basic pages that are using 200MB of ram. Same if you don't have the 300mb of free space, god have mercy on your soul if you've got less than a gig free.
The amount of ram this feature takes up is negligible compared the the bloat of modern webpages. Plus I'm sure there's an about:config setting to disable it if you want to go crazy.
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While I agree, I think there's a pretty large community (like myself) who will use this regularly.
Though I'm unsure of the statistics on how many would use it. If it's under 50% for sure should have been an extension.
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I wonder why Firefox can implement complicated systems such as translation but can't fix the basic UX of handling profiles.
6lets get tab groups, how is that missing at this point. I want to use FF as my main browser but the available options for organization are horrible
6Still waiting on .mkv support
4It took Firefox this long to get a feature that Chrome had for years...
Wow the FOSS community is way behind the curve.
I literally think the only reason Firefox remains relevant is for those who don't want Big Brother watching their every move.
-10This is very different. Chrome sends all of your text to Google
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