Oh boy, it’s happening. Google is flexing it’s muscles and abusing it’s market position. It has never been a better way to convince and support family and friends in moving across to Firefox, a fast and privacy supporting browser.
Oh boy, it’s happening. Google is flexing it’s muscles and abusing it’s market position. It has never been a better way to convince and support family and friends in moving across to Firefox, a fast and privacy supporting browser.
I’ve been mainly using firefox on Windows for ages now, but switched my phone today. I’ll still need them because Japanese is a hard language and I need my Google Translate sometimes, but all other things go through FF now.
Eh? What is about accessing Google Translate via Firefox that you dislike? I’ve been using (sparingly) Google Translate via Librewolf (a fork of Firefox) and I haven’t experienced no problems with it.
Or are you talking about the Google Translate mobile app? I wish there’s a good alternative to it too.
If there’s a way to get google translate (or deepL or something; I’m not picky) in firefox, I don’t know about it. There might be a plug-in or something, but Chrome has it out-of-the-box whereas firefox has no such option.
I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web and it’s good enough for me. I usually just disable all of it’s translate button except the right click menu ones since I tarely need it but it has options like autotranslating specific websites and more.
There is an alternate frontend to Google Translate though. It’s called Lingva Translate.
https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate
It has also got the voice over thingy.
For androids, Lingva has a FOSS app, called Lentil Translate (I believe it’s not official), which you can easily find on F-Droid. Personally, the translations in the app seem a bit slow and buggy to me, but it works like a charm in the browser.