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lost in translation

uncalledfor — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:06:10 GMT

I don't know much about how Firefox development works, but it seems to me that 'ideas' become features too easily and without much thought, if any, given to the user, who presumably is just expected to roll over and be grateful.

In my browser's 'translation settings', everyting is left blank - I don't need/want anything translated, thank you very much. So why do I then find a 'translate this link to x' option in the menu when I right click on a link? And why is my IP being tracked by this 'privacy-focused browser', which is the only way it can guess the language it suggests I translate the link to?

has it ever occurred to you that most of these features are niche and should be made optional? or do you think that you know better what everone needs/wants? there are countless posts to that effect, but it's like shouting into the void.

Re: lost in translation

Agentvirtuel — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:08:11 GMT

Hello

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

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1531376 is it your question

This addition
Language detected automatically, by way of illustration https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1530772#answer-1759337, online translator, https://translate.google.com, https://www.deepl.com

You want ? deactivate Firefox translations.

Take a look at https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/source/modules/libpref/init/all.js

// Enable Firefox translations powered by the Bergamot translations
// engine https://browser.mt/. See Bug 971044. Note that this pref can be turned
// on in different apps like Firefox Desktop, even if it's disabled by default here.
pref("browser.translations.enable", false);

You can test
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.enable
You can double-click on the preference to set the value to false
Restart Firefox

Re: lost in translation

uncalledfor — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:15:36 GMT

some word salad.

so what's the point in having all these translation settings in the browser settings pane, if you then have to go to about:config and fiddle some more in order to make them stick?

Re: lost in translation

Agentvirtuel — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:47:13 GMT

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1491844

As far as I am concerned, also, i like, compare the translation with the original text.

About, IP, below, an test, under vpn, Bhoutan.
Of course this is not my real location. It's not my real ip.