Ya just having the button always visible would make me 90% satisfied. Its just trying to make things “smart” but not being able to plan for all contingencies which makes it annoying. Would be better to have the option to hide it sometimes like how the Downloads toolbar icon can be either way.

I found an add-on a while ago that put a permenent button, but only for certain languages which the add-on also supported. It had some weird behavior but surely improvement. Its on a different computer I don’t have access to right now to tell you which one. It was from a related/forked project to the Translations.

That’s weird… I wonder what’s getting in the way.

No Chinese works as well as any other language for the actual translation. Here is the example link:

I have found the same issue for various European languages. It’s just today I was trying to read some Chinese stuff so that’s the example I picked.

I can’t manage to find a list of currently supported languages from Mozilla though certainly there must be one. It seems like some Asian languages were added to the non-mainline releases earlier this year. I am using Developer on linux and it has way more languages than the original 10 or so Translations rolled out with. I also see Japanese, Greek, Arabic, Korean and a few Cyrillics in there using non-latin alphabets. So they seem to have overcome whatever the barrier was. :)

I don’t know why Mozilla is shy of promoting this feature; it’s so killer.

someone else can probably give a more comprehensive/correct answer but here is how I understand it. i believe chromium is open source and chrome is mostly chromium but also some proprietary (and therefor unknown) bits are included. whereas firefox is entirely open source, meaning you could compile it yourself and still end up with the same package.

Not only were the programmers women, but so were the computers.

I think i read that it uses an old version of electron or something? Do i recall correctly?

Union organizing and intersectionality can only improve things.

lots! I love add ons. I have dozens of them installed but I disable whatever I’m not currently using. I usually have about 5-10 active at a time. I go for the simple, single use ones ala “unix philosophy” when able because I feel they don’t eat up resources and present less security risk.

They’re so convenient for random little tasks. Like a while ago I had to use this webpage that made you check boxes individually for every single item… like >60 check boxes. I have an addon that lets you bulk select and check boxes. Very rarely needed but great to have.

And I have certain groups of add ons that I use for specific tasks. When I am conducting research I have an addon for zotero, to avoid pay walls, the way back machine, singlefile and other record-keeping tools. Bulk file downloaders; which you need several of because they don’t all work for every situation. Also more advanced history and bookmark interfaces. Don’t need them most of the time.

Firefox is so great about allowing add-ons, it turns it into a powerful tool for all kinds of niche use-cases. I wish it would have a more sophisticated way to manage them. However also I am aware that I’m an unusual user so

I did that a while ago but I never remember to use it :(

i know but you have to do it every time.

was it a qoo wop song?

why was Google able to find the answer to questions exactly like this 6+ years ago?

curious if there is any way to know for sure if this is the case? is there documentation of vague google searches over time to track their results? sort of seems like a “don’t know what you got til it’s gone” sort of thing for the average user. but maybe there is some academic work or industry publications to this effect?

We do have a good 10-20 years of every news story intro containing a line like “a google search for ‘spatula’ returns 2.5million results”. remember when journalists and other writers thought that just putting a single search term into a search engine was the way to conduct online research?

otherwise it is really just your recollection how it felt then vs now. i can’t comment on @merc@sh.itjust.works’s programing skills but the point about changing expectations is a good one. not to mention that the amount of available data has exploded.