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Any way to enable on-device translations on Android? (lemmy.blackeco.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Hello all,

As you may be aware, Firefox introduced on-device translations on the desktop a few months ago and according to this knowledge base page it has been available since version 126, but unfortunately only on some unnamed devices.

Do you know of any way (i.e. preferences in about:config) to forcefully enable the feature?

Thanks in advance

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[–] Quintus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm uninformed on this matter but it's on "Studies" for me.

Aren't "Studies" just a fancy term for "limited rollout"? So I assume Mozilla controls them. Therefore I don't think it's a value in about:config. I might be wrong though.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I'm afraid you're right. So no dice then :/

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

browser.translations.enable to true.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's already at true and Firefox does not suggest translations

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you on a foreign page? Don't think it shows if you're on a page your phone recognises as native.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep, I went to the Italian edition of Motorsport.com with my phone set to French.

Edit: tried El País as well

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you using Nightly? If not, can you test with Nightly?

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It shows on Nightly, but I feel it will quickly become cumbersome to open links in Nightly just for translations.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 year ago

Switch to Nightly. Hear me out. Nightly is a much cooler browser and you get to try things out, occasionally they mess things up, but it's actually really stable and it has the feature you're looking for.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'm using Beta