topic Re: New improvements for the built-in page translator in Discussions

New improvements for the built-in page translator

A24 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:25:55 GMT

I want to suggest some improvements for the built-in page translator:

1. Ability to enable page translation via the context menu (by right-clicking anywhere on the page)

2. Ability to disable page translation via the context menu.

3. Automatic recognition of the language from which the translation is being made.

4. Saving the settings of the source and destination languages.

5. Keeping the page translation mode enabled when moving to another page

6. More complete support for existing languages: Hungarian, Greek, Russian, Slovenian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Finnish, with the possibility of translation into these languages.

Re: New improvements for the built-in page translator

Jon — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:43:53 GMT

This is great feedback, @A24 - passing it along to the Translations team. If you wish to submit these ideas to the Ideas page here on Connect, be sure to submit the suggestions individually so they each get the proper attention.

Here's more info on

Hope this helps!

Re: New improvements for the built-in page translator

hero1318 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:58:25 GMT

After highlighting a section of text and right-clicking it, the new FF menu option says: "Translate Selection to English". But what if the selected text is already in English?

You don't get to pick the starting and destination language until after you select that option. So why doesn't the menu option just say: "Translate" or "Translation Selection" without specifying "English" ?

Picky, picky me...!

Re: New improvements for the built-in page translator

jkoenig6 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:46:33 GMT

yes please include ability to disable page translations.

it is annoying to click away the popup all the time, translation is useless if you are german and conversate in english anyway.

Re: New improvements for the built-in page translator

borto1189 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:39:20 GMT

Built-in translation is stil primitive, You have to improve it. Add the possibility to automatically translate a foreign language to a preferred language. I cannot manually select the languages each time I navigate a website! Plus some areas don't even get translated. I am using Firefox since it exists but Google chrome is winning 100 to 1 on this I am sorry

Re: New improvements for the built-in page translator

uperkey — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:21:04 GMT

These are great ideas for improving the page translator—like enabling translation from the context menu, auto-detecting languages, and saving preferences. Just like having easy access to free printable Bluey coloring pages makes things simple and fun for kids, these features would make browsing and translating pages much more convenient and user-friendly.

Re: New improvements for the built-in page translator

Agentvirtuel — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:38:53 GMT

Hello

Firefox Translations
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-should-offer-to-translate-the-page-to-the-last-selected/td-p/115260

jkoenig6, if you wish to test, the preference, browser.translations.automaticallyPopup