Today was the first time I’ve used the page translation feature in Firefox and I was impressed (German version below, and English version below that).
You can see the translation isn’t brilliant and in fact, some of the translated words looked like they were made up.
But it’s worth noting that the language model responsible for translation is running in the browser, which means your browsing isn’t being sent to a server somewhere, making your activity private by default. Running the model locally means that it has to be very small and lightweight, which also means that it’s not as good some a translator running on a server.
When your translations are processed locally, no data from your chosen device leaves your device or relies on cloud services for translation. This means that Mozilla doesn’t know what web page you translate, and makes our translation feature stand out in comparison to other translation tools.
Firefox translation
I wouldn’t use this for translations that needed to be good (for that I’d use a Google Translate addon instead), but for simple browsing activities it works really well.
Find out how to use the Firefox page translation feature here.