Firefox Translate add-on for offline translation released by Mozilla

The Firefox Translate add-on has been released by Mozilla. The new tool, developed under The Bergamot Project, aims to provide an alternative that runs directly on users’ machines for web page translation while, at the same time, protecting their privacy. The add-on will translate text in any language using the user’s computer resources and the data will not be sent to the cloud for processing. It is currently available for translation in eight languages, and work is in progress for a further four.

As announced by Mozilla, there’s a Firefox Translate add-on available for download Firefox Nightly, Beta and in . Feather firefox general release. The tool provides automatic translation of web content served locally on the client-side. it was advanced With The Bergamot Project Consortium, coordinated by the University of Edinburgh with partners from Charles University in Prague, the University of Sheffield, the University of Tartu and Mozilla.

Mozilla says Firefox Translate has added two novel features. The first is the translation of forms, and “the second feature is the quality assessment of translations where low-confidence translations should be automatically highlighted on the page to inform the user of potential errors,” according to blog post By mozilla,

Translation is available for languages ​​including English, Spanish, Estonian, German, Czech, Bulgarian, Norwegian Bokml, Portuguese and Italian. Languages ​​including Russian, Farsi (Persian), Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk are being worked on.

Meanwhile, its biggest competitor is Google Translate. now offer Translation support for a total of 133 languages ​​used worldwide. During the main event of Google I/O, the company announced That Google Translate added support for 24 new languages ​​supported by machine learning.