Well Firefox recently integrated a full webpage translation, fully done local on your system. It works pretty well in my experience.
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2026
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This. It's slightly worse than Google Translate in my experience, but definitely usable and much better from a privacy perspective.
unfortunately bergamot has been really bad with chinese for me
Doesn't Firefox natively offer translations?
I often visit sites with Portuguese, Japanese and Swedish content and the browser offers to translate everything to English.
As far as I am aware, the translation happens locally.
It does, and it works quite fine. :-)
I heard about Argos Translate, which is used by libretranslate github link. It can be used for offline translations.
But I was unable to get it running locally on my machine to test it. As far as i know they translate by routing many different translators together, which may produce worse results (for example French -> English -> Chinese
I don't know of any, just commenting to keep track of this post and add engagement.
It’s been awhile but I have liked using this since its European and has been tested with my buddy’s Argentine girlfriend about accuracy and a few of my discord buddy’s from Kuwait. https://support.deepl.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407580229522-Translate-with-the-browser-extensions
This is a proprietary extension for a proprietary "service as a software substitute" program living on someone else's computer. It's about the furthest from free software/open source as you can get