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Firefox has been my daily driver for a few years. I'll keep using it for that. It's fast, compatible, and reliable.

The new offline translations feature is also a great addition - it is not as good as Google Translate, but it is very good, and it is offline and completely local.

wait, firefox can translate without extensions?

It does require an extension, but that extension is written and maintained by Mozilla themselves.

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...)

You can use it on-line directly without the extension [1]

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/translate/

They've been developing a (first-party) extension that already supports about a dozen languages and does translations completely client-side: https://browser.mt/

I'm assuming it's gonna merge into Firefox once they're satisfied with it.

Also EU supported its early development, which I think is quite cool: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825303

Eh. Translations don't cover like any languages in Asia so it's not even been worth the bytes to download to me.

I've used "Firefox" since Phoenix 0.3. I've used uBlock Origin for a long time, it's awesome.

Firefox has reall gone down hill in the last few years, unfortunately Mozilla really doubled down on the woke agenda.

The enemies of free speech, the woke...

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