971044 - (fx-translation) [meta] Add built-in web page translation

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Translations, enhancement)

Description

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

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

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Mass move of translation bugs to the new Translation component.

Comment 2

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

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?

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(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.

Comment 7

[David]

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?

Comment 8

[Sören Hentzschel]

any progress for this?

Yes. See bug 1710546 and https://github.com/mozilla-extensions/bergamot-browser-extension.

Comment 9

[David]

I hope this feature will come to stable channel soon

Comment 10

[Greg Tatum [:gregtatum] (REO Fx132)]

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__

Comment 11

[Will]

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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)

Comment 12

[Will]

About the question I asked 11 months ago ( comment #11 ) I forgot to include the reason I asked it: it could potentially reduce the amount of time translation takes, and might use less battery while doing so. Is there a bug open for considering/exploring this?

Comment 13

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

Seems worth filing a follow-up though I suspect that hardware is not particularly widely available.

Comment 14

[Will]

Ok I filed a separate issue for it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910251