The Mozilla Firefox 118 web browser is now available for download ahead of its official release on September 26th, when it will be rolling out to various of the supported platforms.
I consider Firefox 118 a major release because it finally brings the built-in translation feature for websites. Previously planned for Firefox 117, the new translation feature will let you automatically translate websites from one of the supported languages to another.
The translation feature can be accessed from a new “Translate page” menu entry in the application menu (the hamburger menu on the far right side of the window). When clicked, a pop-up dialog will open in place to let you choose the languages you want to translate from and to.
It took Firefox this long to get a feature that Chrome had for years…
Wow the FOSS community is way behind the curve.
I literally think the only reason Firefox remains relevant is for those who don’t want Big Brother watching their every move.
This is very different. Chrome sends all of your text to Google