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Olivier Mehani

TIL: Firefox has a machine translation system built into `about:translations`. This also works on mobile.

Screenshot of Firefox Translations, at url `about:translations`. It shows a familar and simple UI with two side-by-side text boxes, the left one has a combobox saying “Detect language (French)”, and contains French text: “Je viens de découvrir que Firefox a un système de traduction automatique intégré dans `about:translations`”. The right one has a combobox saying “English”, and contains the translation of that text: “I just found out that Firefox has a machine translation system built into 'about:translations'.”
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Amelia Bellamy-Royds

@shtrom Excellent. I was trying to find out if this existed recently but couldn't figure out the URL — it's not yet listed in about:about !

The old Firefox translations extension had a pop-up widget on the toolbar, but that disappeared when translations were integrated in the core browser. And this is much easier to use, anyway. Limited languages so far, but once it has downloaded the language models, it runs offline.

Kiran Castellino :he_him:

@shtrom See, I knew that Firefox could translate websites, but I didn't realise it also had a front-end for translating whatever I wanted!

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