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Feedback regarding the Translate feature on FF

kat_47 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:48:56 GMT

I love the translate feature, however sometimes FF forgets the translation languages selected when clicking on any link on the same website.

For example, after I have selected translate to English clicking on about us on a Spanish (for example) website, it will make the page load in Spanish. I'll have to manually select the translate option.

Also sometimes FF is not able to detect the webpage language, however it "forgets" the selected languages when moving across pages. (Possibly due to it being not mentioned in the website's HTML?)

So I have to manually select the "from" language as well as the "to" language. However when navigating within the same page, just like above, it will forget the translate option. But this time I have to select the languages again.

I haven't filled a report on Bugzilla, however I will do it after work. Just wanted to share my feedback with the FF team.

Love your work on keeping the internet open.

Re: Feedback regarding the Translate feature on FF

kat_47 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:19:31 GMT

Replication Steps

1. Go to any foreign language website (Spanish wikipedia for example: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portada)
2. Select the translate option
3. Navigate to any other link
4. Translate “forgets” the selected languages.

Re: Feedback regarding the Translate feature on FF

Agentvirtuel — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:22:48 GMT

Hello

Firefox Translation
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation
Customize translation settings

Have you tried Always translate Spanish

More information

Take a look at https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14960439#p14960439 ***

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/source/modules/libpref/init/all.js

// Set to "All" to see all logs, which are useful for debugging. Set to "Info" to see
// the application logic logs, and not all of the translated messages, which can be
// slow and overwhelming.
pref("browser.translations.logLevel", "Error");

1 - Go to Configuration Editor for Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox
2 - Enter a search term browser.translations.logLevel

3 - Open the Browser Console
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/browser_console/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zCDVuS-bRFs

*** This parenthesis, this precision, unrelated with the original subject.
For information purposes, success screen before loading website, that's https://anubis.techaro.lol, and, take a look at doc, by example, https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/user/known-instances.

Re: Feedback regarding the Translate feature on FF

duvjones — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:09:53 GMT

I will be honest that option (Always translate <enter language here>)bugged me a little bit, because I always figured that it was suggesting that it was global to any time the browser saw the language of the user's choosing and not limited to a website.

I also noticed that the browsers have a blacklisted option to not translate on certain websites, but not a whitelist to always translate on certain websites. I find it very odd.