The Mozilla Firefox 118 web browser is now available for download ahead of its official release on September 26th, when it will be rolling out to various of the supported platforms.
I consider Firefox 118 a major release because it finally brings the built-in translation feature for websites. Previously planned for Firefox 117, the new translation feature will let you automatically translate websites from one of the supported languages to another.
The translation feature can be accessed from a new “Translate page” menu entry in the application menu (the hamburger menu on the far right side of the window). When clicked, a pop-up dialog will open in place to let you choose the languages you want to translate from and to.
This is huge. Big feature I was using chrome for and a privacy focused provider too.
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If 250 MB of ram is an issue then you probably aren’t doing much modern web browsing. I have what I’d think are basic pages that are using 200MB of ram. Same if you don’t have the 300mb of free space, god have mercy on your soul if you’ve got less than a gig free.
The amount of ram this feature takes up is negligible compared the the bloat of modern webpages. Plus I’m sure there’s an about:config setting to disable it if you want to go crazy.
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While I agree, I think there’s a pretty large community (like myself) who will use this regularly.
Though I’m unsure of the statistics on how many would use it. If it’s under 50% for sure should have been an extension.
Translation has been pretty clunky with extensions. I’m glad that there’s finally an integrated solution that isn’t MS or Google.
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Because it’s just using a pre existing translation package. It’s not a big and complicated system, the big and complicated part was done by someone else
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okay. so are you just mad about that because that seems like it fits a different thread to go be mad in.
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Try container tabs, it’s built in, and they’re perfect for multiple logins like that.
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It’s not exactly the best UX I have seen in my life, but you can enter
firefox -P
in a terminal or you can open theabout:profiles
page to start a window with another profile.
lets get tab groups, how is that missing at this point. I want to use FF as my main browser but the available options for organization are horrible
Still waiting on .mkv support
It took Firefox this long to get a feature that Chrome had for years…
Wow the FOSS community is way behind the curve.
I literally think the only reason Firefox remains relevant is for those who don’t want Big Brother watching their every move.
This is very different. Chrome sends all of your text to Google