Closed Bug 971044 (fx-translation) Opened 11 years ago Closed 1 year ago

[meta] Add built-in web page translation

Categories

(Firefox :: Translations, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Translations
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: Felipe, Assigned: gregtatum)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: meta, parity-chrome, Whiteboard: [translation])

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The translation infobar should be an infobar with the following features:

- It displays the webpage's language in a language dropdown, pre-selected to the language detected
- Allows the user to correct this detection by choosing another language from the dropdown
- Has a Translate and Not Now buttons, and an Options menupopup button
- Doesn't go away when Translate is clicked. Instead, it switches to "Translating webpage" and triggers the translation service
- Displays success or error information on completion
Blocks: 971045
Blocks: 971048
Whiteboard: p=0
Blocks: 973287
Blocks: 973276
Depends on: 974538
Depends on: 976573
Depends on: 976574
Depends on: 976571
Depends on: 976751
Whiteboard: p=0 → [translation] p=0
Depends on: 979424
No longer blocks: 971045
Depends on: 971045
Depends on: 988478
Depends on: 988479
Depends on: 988480
Depends on: 988481
Depends on: 988482
No longer depends on: 988479
No longer depends on: 988478
No longer blocks: fxdesktopbacklog
Flags: firefox-backlog+
Flags: firefox-backlog+
Whiteboard: [translation] p=0 → [translation] [tracking]
Keywords: meta
Whiteboard: [translation] [tracking] → [translation]
Mass move of translation bugs to the new Translation component.
Component: General → Translation
Version: Trunk → unspecified
Depends on: 1009501
No longer blocks: 973287
Depends on: 973287
What is the current status of the Translation feature in Firefox? Is it going to be resumed, finalized and ship for general audience? If not, wouldn't be better to remove it?
(In reply to Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:MikkCZ] (use needinfo) from comment #2)
> What is the current status of the Translation feature in Firefox? Is it
> going to be resumed, finalized and ship for general audience?

Last time I heard about plans to do so was at the all hands in December 2016. Since that the focus has moved to performance for 57 so I think this is on hold, but I haven't heard of any decision to never ship the feature.
Depends on: 1605609
Summary: Implement translation infobar → [meta] Implement translation infobar
Type: defect → enhancement
Keywords: parity-chrome

Since the bot detects this issue is the same as this one (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1697495) and I am certain that this topic have been opened for 7 years and any progress for this?

I hope this feature will come to stable channel soon

Severity: normal → S3
Depends on: 1805476
Alias: fx-translation
Summary: [meta] Implement translation infobar → [meta] Implement translation popup
Depends on: 1805349
Depends on: 1755325
Depends on: 1805353
Depends on: 1810180
Depends on: 1811908
Depends on: 1813775
Depends on: 1813777
Depends on: 1813779
Depends on: 1813781
Depends on: 1813782
Depends on: 1813783
Depends on: 1813784
Depends on: 1813789
Depends on: 1813793
Depends on: 1813796
Depends on: 1813161
Depends on: 1813854
Depends on: 1814103
Depends on: 1814168
Depends on: 1814195
Depends on: 1814254
Depends on: 1814257
Depends on: 1814289
Depends on: 1814423
Depends on: 1815339
Depends on: 1815340
Depends on: 1815341
Depends on: 1815343
Depends on: 1815790
Depends on: 1815793
Depends on: 1816771
Depends on: 1817006
Depends on: 1817084
Depends on: 1818603
Depends on: 1819205
Depends on: 1819715
Depends on: 1820214
Depends on: 1820217
Depends on: 1820227
Depends on: 1820229
Depends on: 1820240
Depends on: 1820247
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Depends on: 1820252
Depends on: 1820254
Depends on: 1820255
Depends on: 1820259
Depends on: 1820260
Depends on: 1820261
Depends on: 1820618
Depends on: 1820625
Depends on: 1821038
Depends on: 1821046
Depends on: 1821488
Depends on: 1821768
Summary: [meta] Implement translation popup → [meta] Add built-in web page translation
Depends on: 1823702
Depends on: 1823925
Depends on: 1823964
Depends on: 1824838
Depends on: 1825349
Depends on: 1825801
Depends on: 1825849
Depends on: 1826222
Depends on: 1826437
Depends on: 1827265
Depends on: 1827520
Depends on: 1827521
Depends on: 1827724
Depends on: 1829416
Depends on: 1829418
Depends on: 1829678
Depends on: 1829687
Depends on: 1829691
Depends on: 1830176
Depends on: 1830381
Depends on: 1830425
Depends on: 1831153
Depends on: 1831341
Depends on: 1831768
Depends on: 1831963
Depends on: 1831964
Depends on: 1832099
Depends on: 1833904
Depends on: 1833906
Depends on: 1834014
Depends on: 1834092
Depends on: 1834175
Depends on: 1834384
Depends on: 1835502
Depends on: 1835571
Depends on: 1835642
Depends on: 1835652
Depends on: 1835653
Depends on: 1835693
Depends on: 1836381
Depends on: 1836404
Depends on: 1836436
Depends on: 1836974
Depends on: 1837078
Depends on: 1837421
Depends on: 1837424
Depends on: 1837535
Depends on: 1838463

This feature is now on in Nightly, and the old code is removed in Bug 1817084. I triaged the remaining bugs in the Firefox Translation component to be only the relevant ones for the new feature. This meta bug is no longer relevant, as all bugs in the component are about this feature.

Anyone who has this bookmarked can now follow: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Translation&bug_status=__open__

Assignee: nobody → gtatum
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 1 year ago
No longer depends on: 1713056, 1811908, 1813784, 1813789, 1813854, 1814168, 1814195, 1814254, 1814289, 1815339, 1815340, 1815341, 1815793, 1816771, 1817006, 1817084, 1819205, 1820214, 1820217, 1820240, 1820252, 1820261, 1820618, 1820625, 1821488, 1823964, 1825849, 1826222, 1827265, 1827724, 1829678, 1830381, 1831153, 1831341, 1831768, 1832099, 1833904, 1834092, 1834175, 1834384, 1835642, 1835693, 1836404, 1836974, 1837421, 1837424, 1837535, 1838463
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Depends on: 1841656
No longer depends on: 1841656
Attached image intel AI deck.png —

It's so great that Firefox's translate is done locally on-device, I was just curious if there are any plans for Firefox to do this processing on some of the new dedicated AI hardware Intel, AMD etc. have been talking about? Intel even showed this slide a few months ago where they also point out that dedicated AI hardware will allow improved privacy. Another slide that I can't find pointed out that another benefit of on-device AI is an internet connection is not required, which is another benefit for Firefox Translate (allow users to use it for anything, not just webpages!)

(I was told to ask in this bug if I wanted an answer, apologies if this wasn't the place)

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