Firefox Tests Privacy-Friendly Web Translation Feature
Google Chrome’s built-in translation capabilities are something I find useful. Whenever I load a web page not in my native tongue (which is English, despite what my typos may suggest) the browser asks if I want to translate the content (which, most times, I do).
Thus I’m pretty thrilled to see the Firefox 117 beta is testing a website translation feature of its own.
And as you’d expect Mozilla’s version looks to to a privacy respecting implementation compared to Google’s take.
In the pop-up that appears when you load a web page in a non-default (but supported by the feature) language the browser says that translations happen on your device.