Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 5, 2022 17:15 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

The UX needs work - it pops up randomly offering to translate pages from a language they clearly aren't in and there's no way to turn that off, occasionally the popup does something that pushes *the entire browser chrome* off the right edge of the window, and there's no way to translate only part of a page.

But the few opportunities I've managed to use it properly, it actually works. Amazing.

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Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 7, 2022 5:04 UTC (Tue) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link] (4 responses)

There is also no way (that I could see) to disable it for languages that you do understand (and thus never need translations for), or even better only activate it with the translations button in the URL bar.

And some websites seem to have an allergic reaction to text being translated (I assume it triggers some JavaScript the wrong way?). Maybe there should be a simple “translations don’t work on this page” button or menu option or whatever?

Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 7, 2022 18:04 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (3 responses)

I had similar fun with automatic redirection - browser address bars are a bloody nightmare nowadays - give them an address and they want to search for it!

Anyways, I typed in "amazon.de", and found myself on amazon.co.uk. FFS, if I give you a *real* web address, in the address bar, JUST TAKE ME THERE!!!

Cheers,
Wol

Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 18, 2022 7:30 UTC (Sat) by dr@jones.dk (subscriber, #7907) [Link]

A hostname is not a web address: It lacks protocol.

Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 23, 2022 2:35 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link] (1 responses)

That might have been a redirect from Amazon itself, of course.

FWIW: I can go to both of those, and get no redirect, but I’m not located in either Germany or the UK…

Also: in Firefox you can disable search in the URL bar, and use a separate search bar, if that’s what you prefer (It’s what I do in most of my Firefox profiles).

Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 23, 2022 9:19 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> Also: in Firefox you can disable search in the URL bar, and use a separate search bar, if that’s what you prefer (It’s what I do in most of my Firefox profiles).

How do you do that? Can you get back the old functionality where it assumed the address bar was an address bar and searched if it couldn't find it?

I find the current setup where - if you start typing in the search bar it takes you to the address bar to search - somewhat ... well I'd like to be bloody rude about but can't think of any words to describe the idiocy ... - and then it assumes if you type an address into the address bar you want to search :-(

Cheers,
Wol