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firefox-translations

Firefox Translations is a webextension that enables client side translations for web browsers.

14Distinct people
22Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
567GitHub stars
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What to know before exploring

What it is

Firefox Translations is a webextension that enables client side translations for web browsers.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month22 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-06-02 18:02:54 UTC to 2024-04-14 01:22:49 UTC.

0369122022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 0 submissions, 12 commentsJun 20222022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 20222022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC12012
Jul 20222022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC606
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20242024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> Are there any plans for Mozilla to host this data? (Well, Amazon I guess to match addons.mozilla.org) I'll bring this internally for discussion. > I noticed the web page has Polish but not the extension. Is it not considered sufficiently high quality yet? (Looks like that might be the case from a quick test.) The Polish model finished training after we had the extension reviewed and signed for distribution, so that's why we could already integrate it in the website, which is controlled just by my team, and not in the extension yet, but we'll ship it in the next version which might come next week. This feature you requested is something that I consider interesting and important, would you mind filing an issue in the repo so we could track it [1]? We did not find any large quality issues after quantizing the models. In regards to the neo
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logism in Spanish, that is yes a condition that the consortium is aware and working to remediate it. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/issues
In Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
Yes, the extension is being developed here [1] and the engine[2]/wasm[3] wrapper here. The models and training pipeline are in the urls your posted and the evaluation of those models are hosted here [4] [1] https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations [2] https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator [3] https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator/tree/main/w... [4] https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/tree/...
In Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
A fork of marian-dev[1] is the underlying machine-translation engine: - https://github.com/browsermt/marian-dev Development of higher-level code wrapping around marian-dev make suitable for the browser-extension happens at: - https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator Some of the WebAssembly optimizations are available in bergamot-translator/marian-dev. Rest are in Firefox source-code. A start point could be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1720747. Extension code is open-source, and linked already in other comments: - https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations [1] https://github.com/marian-nmt/marian-dev
In Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

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