Mozilla Working On Google Translate Integration In Firefox (ghacks.net)

Back in 2014, Mozilla partnered with Bing to translate webpages via Firefox in a similar fashion to Chrome's implementation of Google Translate. The company also added support for Yandex Translate in Firefox 41 in mid-2015, but it went all dark soon after and very few updates were issued. Now, Mozilla is finally starting to add support for Google Translate to the translation engine built into Firefox. gHacks reports: While the feature is not fully functional yet, it is an indicator that Mozilla has not forgotten the translate feature completely. Users who enable the translate functionality in Firefox on about:config will notice that Google is the selected translation engine. Google Translate cannot be used currently in Firefox; the browser throws an error message when you hit the translate button in the UI. Bing and Yandex don't seem to work either at this point in time even though Firefox seems to try and translate the page. The "there has been an error translating this page" error is thrown eventually as well. Google Translate requires API access keys and that is usually only available if companies or users pay for the key. It is unclear if Mozilla plans to make a deal with Google or if users will be required to use their own API keys for the functionality. The latter would surely be very limiting.

Comments

Re:Firefox is a dead horse. Stop kicking it.

[Stormwatch]

I still cling to Firefox rather than deal with the shit interface of Chrome.

If I wanted to be spied on by Google...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd just use fucking Chrome.

Re:Yet another integrated thing to turn off

[jma05]

Yeah seriously. They have turned off features that were useful saying that an addon would address those better, and yet have added features that clearly belong in addons. Pocket was much better as an addon. I used to use it a lot, but stopped after it became a core feature. Browsers should not add third-party online services into their core functionality.

That said, I still stick with Firefox. Their general policy and values, however chaotic, inconsistent and confusing, are more aligned with open software than the rest.

Addon

[markdavis]

Mozilla: If it is of any significant size, make it an Addon, not "Integrated." Include the Addon if you want, but please remember the original mission of Firefox- small, fast, secure (at least, that is how I remember it).

Re:Addon

[drinkypoo]

but please remember the original mission of Firefox- small, fast, secure (at least, that is how I remember it).

That was the original mission, but now it's money, money, money.