Firefox 117 Available With Local Automated Translation Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 117 Available With Local Automated Translation Support

The Firefox 117 release binaries are now available for download ahead of Mozilla's official announcement going out on Tuesday...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-117-Released

[schmidtbag]

I've always appreciated this feature in Chrome, so it's good to see Firefox has it. I have to wonder though if the local/offline translation wasn't really because of privacy, but rather, not having the right (or desire) to integrate with a 3rd party web service. Reminds me of cars that use thin plastics or remove features for the sake of "weight savings" when it's really more about cost savings.

[treba]

Local translations are an awesome feature, I really appreciate the work on that. Hopefully other apps that are meant for offline usecases will pick it up!

[salvaju29ro]

If it were to be as reliable and easy to use as Chrome's, I might seriously make the switch to Firefox

[Steffo]

Will the screen sharing indicator on Wayland fixed in the future?

[rhavenn]

If it were to be as reliable and easy to use as Chrome's, I might seriously make the switch to Firefox

"easy" to use is in the eye of the beholder. I find Firefox easy to use, but it's my "go to" browser 99% of the time and has been forever. I don't find Chromium "hard" to use either though. I just prefer Firefox.

As far as reliable, I've never had real problems with it. It sometimes crashes on me randomly in Arch, but seems stable / no issues in Tumbleweed and normally the Arch issues iron themselves out due to libraries being updated. It's not always a Firefox problem.

[mirmirmir]

I saw my colleague using profile feature on chrome. I kinda surprised when i found we don't have that feature in ff.

[C8292]

I saw my colleague using profile feature on chrome. I kinda surprised when i found we don't have that feature in ff.

you have. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...nt-containers/

[V1tol]

you have. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...nt-containers/

And this is basically a killer feature of Firefox. Profiles (btw Firefox has them too) are sooo far away in terms of usability.

[avis]

1. It's not been officially released yet, it may take up to 48 hours.
2. Michael could have provided at least the changelog for the beta version: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/