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    The translation feature is based on the Bergamot project to provide users with a privacy-aware translation engine where the translation is done locally using machine learning, it’s never sent to a third party, and it’s optimized for consumer hardware.

    Neat!

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      Yeah, wow, this is really great if it’s accurate enough.

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      I just showed someone last week how to use the Google translate site for this purpose, and noted how it’s not really private.

      Going to forward this to them

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    Definitely a feature I’ve missed from chrome, going to enjoy not having to rely on janky extensions

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    They have a Firefox translations extension which is pretty good and entirely client side. Unfortunately it didn’t support many languages and didn’t support Chinese or Japanese so it was a deal breaker for me.

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    This is cool, but beyond anything I wish the linux version of firefox used my default filepicker. It keeps choosing to use the gtk file picker instead of thunar or whatever else I choose.

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      It can already do that as long as your desktop environment uses portals. You just need to set the appropriate about:config flag or envvar.

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      I don’t think that’s possible. You can switch between gtk and kde file pickers though.

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    Nice. That is definitely a feature that Firefox currently lacks compared to Chromium (I don’t use actual Chrome much).