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The one feature I wish any other browser would do as well as Chrome is on-the-fly translation. I think Microsoft Edge does this using Bing Translate but I guess as none of the other browser makers have a translation service they can use they instead rely on a wonky extension that uses Google Translate which isn't anywhere near as smooth as the built-in translate in Chrome (naturally).

If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them as it is the only thing keeping me on Chrome these days.

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I imagine that google can do on-the-fly translation because they can eat the cost of the servers running the translation. Best I've seen for firefox uses deepl, which I've heard (on HN) is better than google translate.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/to-deepl/

https://Deepl.com/translator is really good IME. It provides more fluid translations and some better, more precise use of terms for me when translating technical documents (mechanical engineering) from French/German.

Because Brave is chromium-based I believe you can actually use that exact feature in Brave if you install the Google Translate extension.

Not my experience a few weeks ago when I last tried. It prompts you to install a Google Translate extension that basically just sends the URL to Google's web translate service rather than translate 'in place' like Chrome does.

Google charges (quite a bit) for the translation service. Unfortunately, at this time Brave is only able to offer the Google Translate extension (which we agree isn't as nice).

I think Apple added translation to their latest Safari too. They recently introduced their own translation app.

This would be extremely cool - and we (at Brave) did put in work to get a solution working (huge kudos to Jocelyn Liu who did the work). Repo up at https://github.com/brave/go-translate

However, the problem comes to licensing costs :( Setting aside the privacy implications of sending content on a site (since you opt-in), the content needs to be fed to a service. Microsoft and Google charge a per-transaction fee on each of these service calls and it can end up being quite expensive

This is the only reason I have chrome installed alongside my default Firefox

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