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  • blami@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Doing same thing right now… only two things I will miss are chromecast and page translation.

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      1 year ago

      Good news about page translation, Firefox is adding it, and it’s all done locally too, no phoning home to their or somebody else’s translation servers.

      I wonder if there’s an extension for Chromecast support? Might be worth looking into

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        1 year ago

        Good news about page translation, Firefox is adding it, and it’s all done locally too, no phoning home to their or somebody else’s translation servers.

        Till then there is this open source extension which provides the same functionality including local offline translation

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          Actually there is one, but it’s not very good if I’m being honest ( but workable).

          I’m kind of surprised that no open source project of renown has ever decided to implement that on Firefox well.

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      1 year ago

      For translation you can use this. Since you can use Google translation service as the backend(?), it works as good as Google translate atleast in my experience

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        1 year ago

        Thanks a lot, this extension looks very much as what I need. I wish Apple stopped their WebKit policy on iPhone so I could use it on mobile Firefox too…

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      1 year ago

      only two things I will miss are chromecast and page translation.

      You can use your phone to start the chromecasting, and translate.google.com lets you also put in a weblink to translate a whole page at once.