@sindarina I can only say that this has not been my...

@sindarina I can only say that this has not been my experience. But I have indeed not seen an option to only translate part of the text. According to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation that is not there.

Like 15 February at 10:02 | Open on fosstodon.org

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@bert_hubert This just feels weirdly unintuitive to me, as someone who works with multiple languages;

“When you visit a webpage in a supported language, the translation panel will open automatically.”

There seems to be no way to not have it do that, or turn it off altogether without digging into ‘about:config’. But hey, it's in beta.

15 February at 10:14 | Open on ngmx.com

@sindarina
You can disable it for some languages from the popup

15 February at 13:37 | Open on pouet.chapril.org

@sindarina Also in settings:

15 February at 13:39 | Open on pouet.chapril.org

@bert_hubert @sindarina
Strangely this is available with the Firefox Translations addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/
But I'm not sure how supported this is now.

15 February at 13:35 | Open on pouet.chapril.org

@bert_hubert @sindarina
I found that the Firefox bug to implement it is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1855907
It looks like it's being worked on, but definitely not ready yet.
In the mean time, I'd suggest to keep using the addon.

15 February at 16:58 | Open on pouet.chapril.org

@bert_hubert @sindarina FWIW, there's a FIrefox extension that let's you translate selected text with a local LLM. I wrote about using it for translation here: https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/translate-selected/

15 February at 14:03 | Open on mastodon.social

@bert_hubert @sindarina also, full disclosure, I wrote the extension. :D

15 February at 14:05 | Open on mastodon.social