08-24-2024 06:16 AM
I'm using Firefox 129.0.2 on Windows 11 and I would like to tell you about some issues I noticed with the new translator module:
Otherwise it's perfect ! The translations are accurate, I use it almost everyday. Thanks ^^
08-26-2024 11:05 AM
Hello
Traduction avec Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/traduction-sites-web
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation
Sinon, cliquez sur l’icône de traduction dans la barre d’outils ou sélectionnez Traduire la page dans le menu
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GEFpfQnNFLI
Other https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3121554
08-27-2024 12:50 AM
Merci pour votre réponse ! Le lien YouTube m'a montré comment traduire une page à partir du menu de l'application même si le module de traduction échoue à reconnaître la langue de la page... Je pense donc que ce problème est à peu près résolu. Mais néanmoins, je pense toujours que l’icône du traducteur devrait toujours rester dans la barre d'adresse. Je suis sûr de n'être pas le seul à ne pas avoir vu le bouton "Traduire la page..." bien caché dans ce menu en haut à droite...
Les autres problèmes sont donc l'indisponibilité des langues asiatiques et d'occasionnelles erreurs de traductions comme le "Blocs de pompiers"...
J'ai récemment remarqué un autre bug :
(Thank you for answering! Thanks to your YouTube link I now know how to translate the page from any language using the app menu, even if the translation module fails to recognize the language in witch the current page is written... therefore that problem seems pretty much resolved. Nevertheless, I still don't like to see the "trasnlate this page" icon disappear sometimes from the adress bar. I think it's not so easy to find the "Translate the page" option hidden inside the little app menu in the corner... without your YouTube link.
Ultimately the remaining issues are the unavailability of asian languages and occasional mistranslations such as "fire brigade blocks"...
I've just noticed another bug:
08-27-2024 03:02 AM
Hello
Other informations
Take a look at https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14960439#p14960439
By way of illustration 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");
Configuration Editor for Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox
Search browser.translations.logLevel
https://www.youtube.com/embed/yt3DIrYy6bg
Browser Console
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/browser_console/index.html
Maybe, you can send your comments to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Firefox
09-10-2024 07:53 PM - edited 09-10-2024 08:31 PM
Hello
Sorry for replying to you after so much time...
Thanks for all the links! I learnt how to view logs from the translator in the browser console, but unfortunately I did not understand them very well, for I'm not a professional like you are! I believe it was a little too advanced for a beginner like me... Thank you anyways!
I will try to send comments to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org. Still, I think occasional mistranslations are unavoidable. It always happens, with any translator! Let me tell you a game I found to play with mistranslations: type a sequence in Google Translator (or any other translator) and translate it to another language, then reverse the languages with the "flip" arrow to translate back your translation to the original language, and re-tranaslate again in the other one, and so on... eventually the translation becomes so different from the original text that it is pretty ununderstandable.
That being said, the Firefox Translator is still useful. When a page is only in German, for instance, I can translate it into English whenever I want to. And, the module keeps improving over time!
Finally, we can do nothing about the Asian languages... not yet, but they probably will become available soon!
09-10-2024 05:36 AM
The French-English translator isn't too bad but the phrase "Fer à boucler" (DeepL: "curling iron") gave a surprise result yesterday...
09-10-2024 05:42 AM
09-10-2024 06:10 PM
Hello. . . . .
I think you found two more "easter eggs"... It is funny to see how some sentences can give surprising results like that!
I also noticed that characters from unsupported languages (e.g. "あ" or "樹") will get completely ignored. I tried to translate a full sequence in Japanese from "English" to "French", and... (see the attachement)
I think this translator, as well as DeepL and all other translating machines, will never beat human beings. High quality translation requires understanding all words. And since machines are not "sentient", they convert "Bonjour" to 426f6e6a6f7572, and after some mathematical operations based on their training data they obtain 48656c6c6f, which means "Hello". They simply do not understand the real meaning of the words they transalte; that's why we occasionally find some "F***ing iron". Humans would never make such mistakes !
Nevertheless, the module is still very useful. And I believe it's continuously improving as time passes, and some day it will be able to translate to or from Japanese... (it is said to be the most difficult language in the world, so maybe that translator will take a while to learn it!)
Thank you for answering anyways!