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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by literallycancer on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:28AM (#23446891)
The state of translation extensions in Firefox is catastrophic. The useful ones got deleted from the store. As far as I can tell the only reason was to flex some policy choices by the extension store(?) team.

So you pretty much have to have Chromium as a backup if you ever need to research non-Anglo content.

I can see people moving to Chromium because of this and other similar problems with extensions being broken (like the tridactyl thing).

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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by bovine3dom on Sunday June 07, 2020 @09:37AM (#23447233)
You can use userscripts (e.g. with Violentmonkey [1]) for Google Translate, e.g. [2].

Since you mentioned Tridactyl you might be interested to know that I wrote my own command to inject Google Translate on demand [3].

The extensions you mentioned were removed because they execute remote code. Mozilla are trying to tighten these restrictions [4]. I think Chrome is moving in a similar direction. I don't think that will affect the user script work-around as they execute in the page context, but I could be wrong.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/violentmonkey...

[2]: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9285-translate-google-tool...

[3]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/c776f722944714ee...

[4]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/12/12/test-the-new-csp-...

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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by cmeacham98 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:54AM (#23447771)
I've never heard of violentmonkey, how does it compare to grease/tampermonkey?
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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by bovine3dom on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:30AM (#23448066)
Violentmonkey is very actively developed [1]. Greasemonkey isn't [2]. Tampermonkey is closed source so I view it with some suspicion. Otherwise they're all pretty much the same, as far as I know (I don't use them extensively).

[1]: https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey/graphs/contri...

[2]: https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/graphs/contribu...

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