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The plugin based beta had Russian as a translation source language. I wonder why did they remove it in the final release.

I hope it wasn't political. It was really handy the few times I needed it.

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The extension isn't described as a beta. Some of the languages within it are noted as beta: Catalan, Persian, Icelandic, Dutch, Norwegian Nyorsk, Russian, and Ukranian. So like Dutch I expect more of them to become built-in to FF in the future.

I'm still on FF117 - can you not continue to use the extension in 118 to keep Russian?

To me, the extension says that full-page translations are now available only by the built-in version. (And this on FF117!)

> Release notes for 1.3.4buildid20230720.091143

> Changed

> - In-page functionality of the addon is replaced by the built-in Firefox integration. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...

I see the same release note but that version is still offering me full-page translations in FF 117.0.1 (Linux Mint's build, unsure if that could affect things).

I doubt it's political, Czech was included in the extension but is not available now that it's integrated into the browser. I guess more languages will come later.

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