Did you know that Firefox has a translation feature similar to Google Chrome? Most people probably don't know about it, as the feature isn't enabled by default and isn't in the visible ones settings of the application.
The foundation Mozilla revealed in February 2014 that it was preparing to integrate a translation feature into Firefox, and actually started including the feature in Nightly builds of the browser starting in May 2014.
The first version used Bing Translate content and worked similar to the Chrome app that uses Google Translate.
That is, it displayed a notification when someone user επισκεπτόταν μια σελίδα που χρησιμοποιούσε διαφορετική language of those installed in Firefox. The notification states the language of the page and suggests translation options.
Mozilla has also added support for Yandex Translate to Firefox 41 released in the middle of 2015. However, translation functions remained only in the Nightly versions and were never promoted to the fixed channel. Over the next three years (2015 - 2018) there were only a few fixes and no new features.
On last week but the Mozilla Foundation has added support for the Google Translate translation engine that incorporated it into the Firefox browser.
Although the feature is not yet fully functional, it is an indication that the Mozilla Foundation has not forgotten the translation function. If you want to enable it in Firefox, open the internal address about: config.
Look for the following commands:
browser.translation.detectLanguage - set the value to True and Firefox will detect the language of a page.
browser.translation.engine - Specifies which translation service Firefox will use. Supported services are Google, Bing and Yandex.
browser.translation.ui.show - Specifies whether Firefox will display the translation UI when it detects foreign languages. True will display the user interface, while False will hide it.
Google Translate cannot currently be used in Firefox and you will see a message if you try errorof Bing and Yandex don't seem to work at the moment either, although Firefox seems to be trying to translate the page. Eventually the error “An error occurred translating this page.” appears.
Google Translate requires a service API access key, which is usually only available if the company or users pay for the key. We do not know whether the Mozilla Foundation is planning to enter into an agreement with Google or the users themselves should add the API key to have that functionality. The latter would certainly be very restrictive.
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