Did you know that Firefox has a translation capability similar to its own? Google Chrome? Most people probably don't know about it, as the feature isn't enabled by default and isn't in the app's visible settings.
The Mozilla Foundation has revealed in February of 2014 that it is preparing to incorporate a translation feature into Firefox and has actually begun to include the feature in Nightly Browser versions of May 2014.
The first version used the content of Bing Translate and worked similarly to the Chrome app that uses Google Translate.
It displayed a notification when a user was visiting a page that used a different language than those installed in Firefox. The alert indicates 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 – determines which translation service Firefox will use. Supported services they 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 be used in Firefox at this time and if you try it you will see an error message. Bing and Yandex do not appear to be working at this time either, despite the fact that Firefox seems to be trying to translate the page. Eventually the error "There was an error translating this page."
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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