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The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet::Mozilla has announced the release of an update to its Firefox browser. In version number 118, users will find a significant innovation - a built-in translator

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Only these languages though:

Bulgarian
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish
[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but these websites are usually already localized in English at least to some extent. Many Asian websites would benefit much more from this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

There's an edge case for Switzerland with 4 official languages but German being the majority. Many websites and documents "forget" to translate into other minority languages.

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