Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by phatfish on Saturday December 02, 2023 @08:37AM (#38498531)

The Mozilla translation extension works fine for me when I've used it. It may even be enabled by default now.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by fy20 on Saturday December 02, 2023 @08:46AM (#38498581)

Firefox has translation built in now (Menu -> Translate Page), but it's really not up to the same standard as Chrome.

- It's slow.

- Automatic language detection rarely works.

- It only supports a few languages.

- For many sites it breaks the page.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by phatfish on Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:18AM (#38498751)

I assume Chrome just hooks into Google Translate. Firefox translation works locally apparently. Hopefully the can improve it.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by nerdbert on Saturday December 02, 2023 @01:48PM (#38500891)

Translation is the only reason I still break out Chrome now and then.

Firefox finally sort of has it, but it's not that good. Often it won't believe you that the page is in another language, so you can't translate at all, even by trying to force it. The translations can be weird and miss parts of the page.

I'm sure it'll get better, though, and once it does, I can delete Chrome entirely.

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