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The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet (gadgettendency.com)

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The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet::Mozilla has announced the release of an update to its Firefox browser. In version number 118, users will find a significant innovation - a built-in translator

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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago

Only these languages though:

Bulgarian
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish

[-] natryamar@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 33 points 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.

[-] UlrikHD@programming.dev 12 points 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.

[-] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

We already have one language.

Yes but what about a second language?

[-] beesyrup@lemm.ee 3 points 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.

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 2 points 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.

[-] beesyrup@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

kanji/kana to romaji

Wow, I never knew that they had a Japanese to Romaji extension. Would furigana extensions work? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/furiganaize/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

Yeah, furiganaize has an option to display as romaji. https://files.catbox.moe/ocjic8.png

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately it only works on Kanji (which is probably the hardest part, I guess if there's no alternative for kana there isn't enough demand?), but thanks!

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