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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Local translation of text comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yup, Firefox has it: https://browser.mt/ (it's now a native part of Firefox)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm maybe this is why Firefox is so damn slow on my raspberry pi

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hmm I don't think it's because of that feature, because it only runs when you explicitly ask it to translate a page for you. You should probably check your extensions, see if you have some redundant ones (a mistake people make is use multiple ad-blockers/anti-trackers, when just uBlock Origin + Firefox's defaults are usually good enough).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Firefox has that already (without using an LLM). But yeah, it's still another way this could be implemented or possibly improved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I was thinking more along the lines of communicating with a Klingon captain on a D7 Battlecruiser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Vivaldi has had local translation for about half a year now. No need for LLM for this feature.