Reviews for Firefox Translations
Firefox Translations by Mozilla Firefox
Review by D. Girardi
Rated 4 out of 5
by D. Girardi, 8 months agoI've always been an avid user of the To Google Translate Add-on, but it always bothered me that, despite the Add-on not collecting data, Google does. When I heard about this website translation on-device, I was eager to try it out. Here, I will compare both extensions in terms of their translation accuracy, user interface, translation speed, memory usage, and common issues.
First things first, it is important to highlight that while To Google Translate uses mainly American grammar, Firefox Translations seems to use British grammar. Both extensions perform well when translating texts from German, Portuguese, and Spanish into English, but they both struggle to correctly translate gendered nouns from these languages into English (e.g., "Mitarbeiter*innen" (DE), "funcionários(as)" (PT), "empleados/as" (ES), "employees" (EN)). Both extensions frequently fail to translate between languages other than English. While To Google Translate also struggles with abbreviations and acronyms, Firefox Translations handles them without a problem. To Google Translate tends to provide more literal translations, while Firefox Translations sometimes translates word by word, which is not a smart approach for languages like the ones I tested.
Both extensions have very simple user interfaces that are easy to use, allowing you to select a preferred source language to always be translated. However, Firefox Translations offers a more intuitive and clear interface, while To Google Translate provides options (which must be selected) to translate only a snippet of the page or to show the original text when hovering.
Firefox Translations can translate an entire website with a single click, but I believe that the loading time depends on your device's memory and the size of the page. With 16 GB of RAM, it takes less than a second to load a page with 20 paragraphs of text and a few menus. On the other hand, To Google Translate works on the text visible on your screen, which loads almost instantaneously.
Speaking of memory usage, it's well-known that Chromium-based browsers can be memory-intensive. After opening my browser and loading my homepage in German, memory consumption stabilized around 740 MB. Activating To Google Translate increased memory consumption to 780 MB. Performing the same procedure with Firefox Translations raised memory consumption to 1030 MB, which is understandable since it runs locally.
Both extensions face a similar issue with text formatting, such as removing bullet points and adding spaces before commas. To Google Translate also frequently fails to capitalize letters. While browsing one of my work websites, Firefox Translations deleted a menu both from the interface and the developer tools. This issue occurred only at said website.
Overall, I'm still using To Google Translate until Firefox Translations improves its sentence comprehension and stops deleting menus from websites crucial to my workflow. However, I find the slight time delay when using Firefox Translation to be acceptable considering the significant privacy benefit. I have high hopes for this add-on as it continues its beta testing.
First things first, it is important to highlight that while To Google Translate uses mainly American grammar, Firefox Translations seems to use British grammar. Both extensions perform well when translating texts from German, Portuguese, and Spanish into English, but they both struggle to correctly translate gendered nouns from these languages into English (e.g., "Mitarbeiter*innen" (DE), "funcionários(as)" (PT), "empleados/as" (ES), "employees" (EN)). Both extensions frequently fail to translate between languages other than English. While To Google Translate also struggles with abbreviations and acronyms, Firefox Translations handles them without a problem. To Google Translate tends to provide more literal translations, while Firefox Translations sometimes translates word by word, which is not a smart approach for languages like the ones I tested.
Both extensions have very simple user interfaces that are easy to use, allowing you to select a preferred source language to always be translated. However, Firefox Translations offers a more intuitive and clear interface, while To Google Translate provides options (which must be selected) to translate only a snippet of the page or to show the original text when hovering.
Firefox Translations can translate an entire website with a single click, but I believe that the loading time depends on your device's memory and the size of the page. With 16 GB of RAM, it takes less than a second to load a page with 20 paragraphs of text and a few menus. On the other hand, To Google Translate works on the text visible on your screen, which loads almost instantaneously.
Speaking of memory usage, it's well-known that Chromium-based browsers can be memory-intensive. After opening my browser and loading my homepage in German, memory consumption stabilized around 740 MB. Activating To Google Translate increased memory consumption to 780 MB. Performing the same procedure with Firefox Translations raised memory consumption to 1030 MB, which is understandable since it runs locally.
Both extensions face a similar issue with text formatting, such as removing bullet points and adding spaces before commas. To Google Translate also frequently fails to capitalize letters. While browsing one of my work websites, Firefox Translations deleted a menu both from the interface and the developer tools. This issue occurred only at said website.
Overall, I'm still using To Google Translate until Firefox Translations improves its sentence comprehension and stops deleting menus from websites crucial to my workflow. However, I find the slight time delay when using Firefox Translation to be acceptable considering the significant privacy benefit. I have high hopes for this add-on as it continues its beta testing.
930 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18434344, 15 hours agoОтлично! Не возлагала больших надежд, но оказалось, крутая программа
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dom1n, 16 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by frankshrum, 18 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jozef Penjak, 2 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by p3whyte, 9 days agoSimple. Easy. It could look better. Maybe dark mode or some color customizing.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18427500, 10 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 11530954, 13 days agoNot so many languages supported. No autodetection.... needs more work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fab le savonnier, 15 days agoParfait pour moi, le fait de pouvoir ouvrir un calque de trad sans sortir de la page, en une sélection et un clic c'est le plus important et surtout pas besoin de Google.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14498337, 16 days agocannot translate asian languages
the purpose of it - Rated 1 out of 5by nanpuyue, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by _erison.anon, 19 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by slottwo, 22 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by dikunav, 22 days agoThere are no Russian for non beta-users, and a lot of other problems with low functional, but I will save as unpinned because of privacy
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18381496, a month agoHey, dude, do you forget to translate Chinese here?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16137529, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ed, a month agoLa extensión hace su cometido manteniendo la privacidad, lo cual está genial, aunque la mayor pega es que la experiencia de usuario es algo rudimentaria en comparativa a otras alternativas.
De todas maneras, a mí me sirve y quisiera resaltar que también funciona en Firefox para dispositivos Android. Nota: parece que tan sólo en la versión Nigthly. - Rated 3 out of 5by Freddy, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kilian1807, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17792532, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18385004, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Etude, a month agoCe n'est pas trop mal. Mais :
- l'interface n'est pas intuitif et ne permet pas un controle efficace
- Le Français est illisible car il n'a souvent aucun sens. - Rated 5 out of 5by Juan Bosco, a month ago