1878075 - Hidden text is being translated blocking translating an overlay modal

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Translations, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Attachment: screenshot.png

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/fr/expositions_virtuelles/bijoux-de-scene-de-la-comedie-francaise
2. Use the "Translate this page" button in the address bar to translate from French to English.
3. See that the "VIGIPIRATE" modal message overlay is not translated.
4. Click the modal message's "X Fermer" button to close the modal.
5. See that the rest of the page content is translated.

Expected result

All content on the page should be translated, including the "VIGIPIRATE" modal message.

Actual result

The "VIGIPIRATE" modal message is not translated, but the rest of page content is translated. See the attached screenshot showing the untranslated "VIGIPIRATE" modal message, even though the "Translate this page" button in the address bar shows that Firefox thinks it has translated the page to English.

I'm using Firefox 124 Nightly on Windows 11.

Comment 1

[Greg Tatum [:gregtatum]]

The page is translating, but it's not prioritizing the correct things to translate, so it takes a long time to finish. What's worse, is that we are translating non-visible items on the page. For instance:

This includes invisible content:

document.body.textContent.length
107,682

And this only includes visible content:

document.body.innerText.length
23,445

There is a lot of hidden content that is never shown to the user. We should take into account element visibility, but it may just be fixed with Bug 1820252. Let's keep this one open in case it's not. It's also a good test case for Bug 1820252.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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:gregtatum, could you have a look please?

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