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[–] 62 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I change from Chrome to Firefox recently on all devices and it was a pretty easy transition.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Doing same thing right now... only two things I will miss are chromecast and page translation.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Good news about page translation, Firefox is adding it, and it's all done locally too, no phoning home to their or somebody else's translation servers.

    I wonder if there's an extension for Chromecast support? Might be worth looking into

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Good news about page translation, Firefox is adding it, and it's all done locally too, no phoning home to their or somebody else's translation servers.

    Till then there is this open source extension which provides the same functionality including local offline translation

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sadly, no, there is no chromecast extension (which I am aware of).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Actually there is one, but it's not very good if I'm being honest ( but workable).

    I'm kind of surprised that no open source project of renown has ever decided to implement that on Firefox well.

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    Just search for it from within Firefox, from the mods tab. That's how I found it the first time.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    For translation you can use this. Since you can use Google translation service as the backend(?), it works as good as Google translate atleast in my experience

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    only two things I will miss are chromecast and page translation.

    You can use your phone to start the chromecasting, and translate.google.com lets you also put in a weblink to translate a whole page at once.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    The only issue is I have to keep a chromium browser because there are a few sites that Firefox has issues with. But the vast majority work fine.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Can you not use those sites? The reason they don't work is because there userbase uses chrome.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Unfortunately I'm not in the business of working for them. They are mostly govt sites in my country and we simply have to work with them sometimes. Their web devs are underpaid general workers who know a bit of Joomla but added this and that shit to the point that it works only on Chrome.

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