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firefox translation doesn't appear on many pages (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I find Firefox Translator doesn't pick up a lot of pages. The location bar button doesn't appear.

It works if I access via the hamburger menu. It is very slow to have to go via the menu for each individual page. I find no shortcut key or anything.

Sometimes this will correctly guess the original language but often not. It is saying pages are English even when they have little to no english, even using different alphabets.

Is there something the website admins can do to tell firefox what language it is? Encoding? Meta tag?

Can I force the location-bar translate button to persist on all pages regardless of what language it thinks the page is in? Then I could save going through the menu.

Here is an example: https://cn.chinadaily.com.cn/

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[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i thought Firefox translator didn't have and East/Southeast Asian languages besides Vietnamese (because of Roman characters) so far

[–] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No Chinese works as well as any other language for the actual translation. Here is the example link:

I have found the same issue for various European languages. It's just today I was trying to read some Chinese stuff so that's the example I picked.

I can't manage to find a list of currently supported languages from Mozilla though certainly there must be one. It seems like some Asian languages were added to the non-mainline releases earlier this year. I am using Developer on linux and it has way more languages than the original 10 or so Translations rolled out with. I also see Japanese, Greek, Arabic, Korean and a few Cyrillics in there using non-latin alphabets. So they seem to have overcome whatever the barrier was. :)

I don't know why Mozilla is shy of promoting this feature; it's so killer.