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Comment by jamesholden | Hacker News Reader

Mock me, or teach me.. but.. I use it still because it's very easy, quick, and good.. to use the translate page functionality.

Yes, I am also aware that Firefox has some technology (in the works?) that will do offline translation even. Cool.. except I still have yet to find a good, easy, fast, accurate translation feature for Firefox. There are some extensions, but none are as good.

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The Mozilla translation extension works fine for me when I've used it. It may even be enabled by default now.

Firefox has translation built in now (Menu -> Translate Page), but it's really not up to the same standard as Chrome.

- It's slow.

- Automatic language detection rarely works.

- It only supports a few languages.

- For many sites it breaks the page.

I assume Chrome just hooks into Google Translate. Firefox translation works locally apparently. Hopefully the can improve it.

Translation is the only reason I still break out Chrome now and then.

Firefox finally sort of has it, but it's not that good. Often it won't believe you that the page is in another language, so you can't translate at all, even by trying to force it. The translations can be weird and miss parts of the page.

I'm sure it'll get better, though, and once it does, I can delete Chrome entirely.

Convenience - that’s how they get you to give up stuff.

Same. The built in translation feature is super valuable once you move country.

Offline translation has landed for a while now. It's built in now.

It has about 10 non-beta languages, and even amongst beta and non, the language is not available. Unfortunately. I would use it if it were. Thank you for taking the time to reply though.

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