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The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet::Mozilla has announced the release of an update to its Firefox browser. In version number 118, users will find a significant innovation - a built-in translator

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While this is theoretically a neat feature, how can I stop it? I don't want it to offer translation of each and any English page into my native tongue. As most of the Internet is English, this thing pops up everywhere, and at least for English I don't need it. This is as annoying as Clippy was.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can disable it in the menu that opens when you click on the button at the right of the address bar

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be nice if that worked, but it doesn't. I found a "Settings" requester under Language -> Translations where it offers to disable translation for a list of languages, but I cannot add any.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the annoying popup, there is a cog wheel, clicking that will show a menu. That menu have a checked checkbox, Always offer to translate, uncheck that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, that did it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Each time it offers to translate a page, there's a "Never translate from [LANGUAGE]" button.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the internet is not in English lol. 45% of the web is in English.

But I share your sentiment.