I find Firefox Translator doesn’t pick up a lot of pages. The location bar button doesn’t appear.

It works if I access via the hamburger menu. It is very slow to have to go via the menu for each individual page. I find no shortcut key or anything.

Sometimes this will correctly guess the original language but often not. It is saying pages are English even when they have little to no english, even using different alphabets.

Is there something the website admins can do to tell firefox what language it is? Encoding? Meta tag?

Can I force the location-bar translate button to persist on all pages regardless of what language it thinks the page is in? Then I could save going through the menu.

Here is an example: https://cn.chinadaily.com.cn/

  • gitamar@feddit.org
    3·
    3 days ago

    For me, the translation option appears on that site and also detects the right language

      • Muehe@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 days ago

        Must be some setting on your end, I’m getting offered translations on that page as well (stable release).

        Two things I could think of, either you haven’t set it to always offer translations or your browser is set to simplified Chinese.

        Another thing, you can select some text, right-click the selection, and there will be a translation option there. After you used that there will be a button for “translate the whole page” in the translation popup.

        Oh also you can download more languages through the settings (general settings page, right below browser language).

    • linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      1·
      4 days ago

      No Chinese works as well as any other language for the actual translation. Here is the example link:

      I have found the same issue for various European languages. It’s just today I was trying to read some Chinese stuff so that’s the example I picked.

      I can’t manage to find a list of currently supported languages from Mozilla though certainly there must be one. It seems like some Asian languages were added to the non-mainline releases earlier this year. I am using Developer on linux and it has way more languages than the original 10 or so Translations rolled out with. I also see Japanese, Greek, Arabic, Korean and a few Cyrillics in there using non-latin alphabets. So they seem to have overcome whatever the barrier was. :)

      I don’t know why Mozilla is shy of promoting this feature; it’s so killer.

  • G020B@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Firefox on Android 137.0.2 says to me that “Chinese isn’t supported yet”.

  • MangoPenguinEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Makes you wonder why there isn’t just a button to translate when needed.

    • linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      1·
      3 days ago

      Ya just having the button always visible would make me 90% satisfied. Its just trying to make things “smart” but not being able to plan for all contingencies which makes it annoying. Would be better to have the option to hide it sometimes like how the Downloads toolbar icon can be either way.

      I found an add-on a while ago that put a permenent button, but only for certain languages which the add-on also supported. It had some weird behavior but surely improvement. Its on a different computer I don’t have access to right now to tell you which one. It was from a related/forked project to the Translations.