gecko-dev VS firefox-translations

Compare gecko-dev vs firefox-translations and see what are their differences.

gecko-dev

Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html (by mozilla)

firefox-translations

Firefox Translations is a webextension that enables client side translations for web browsers. (by mozilla)
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gecko-dev

Posts with mentions or reviews of gecko-dev. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.

firefox-translations

Posts with mentions or reviews of firefox-translations. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-13.
  • Fast and secure translation on your local machine with a GUI
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2024
    Interestingly, I think this is actually related to the offline translation features built into Firefox. Both are products of "Project Bergamot", but the Mozilla-maintained version was later merged into the Firefox application:

    https://browser.mt/

    https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on...

    https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/training-efficient-neural-...

    https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations

    https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...

    Extra webpage with screenshot and links, impossible to search for normally:

    https://translatelocally.com/downloads/

    Does one thing and does it well.

    Oh— For downloading models, it's much easier to pipe/`xargs` `translateLocally --available-models` into `translateLocally -d` than go through the GUI.

    ---

    Other self-hostable translation tools:

    https://www.apertium.org/index.eng.html

    - Traditional rule-based translation. Seems to work pretty well, but no good desktop frontend.

    https://www.argosopentech.com/

    - Works, but crashy desktop app.

    https://libretranslate.com/

    - API wrapping Argos Translate.

    https://lingva.thedaviddelta.com/

    - Google Translate scraper/privacy frontend.

    https://euroglot.com/

    - Proprietary, subscription trialware.

  • Firefox Translations is now enabled by default in Nightly.
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 30 May 2023
  • Are there plans for Firefox Translations to get updates for Japanese and Korean in the future?
    1 project | /r/firefox | 29 Apr 2023
    You can submit feature requests to this Github repository: Add Japanese Translation.
  • Firefox told me about the Translations addon, so I thought I'd test it out... I suspect it may need some work.
    1 project | /r/firefox | 15 Mar 2023
    I reported this to https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/issues/688
  • Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2023
    Mozilla did release DeepSpeech[0] and Firefox Translation[1] (the latter of which they included in Firefox, to offer client-side webpage translations.)

    They definitely have fewer resources than OpenAI, and they do not produce SOTA research (their publications have plummeted to 1/year anyway[2]). So the only way for them to make progress is to seek government grants or make challenges like these.

    This challenge is unlikely to be profitable for the winning team: the expected value of winnings are likely around $1K when taking into account the probability that another team gets a better rank, but ML research projects are often more expensive (recently, Alpaca spent upwards of $600 on computation alone; and of course pretraining large models is much more expensive). So the main gain will be publicity.

    [0]: https://github.com/mozilla/deepspeech

    [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/

    [2]: https://research.mozilla.org/

  • Do you know libraries which can translate simple texts offline in Java?
    4 projects | /r/java | 14 Feb 2023
    Firefox has an offline translation extension: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations
  • Firefox Translations is awesome 😍
    1 project | /r/firefox | 26 Jan 2023
    That will be released in the next version: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/commit/af29a6ca83c4e98566d510c0f150667a43e506d2
  • Firefox Translations doesn't use the cloud
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2022
    https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/issues/374

    Maybe it will get implemented

  • How can I didable firefox translations?
    1 project | /r/firefox | 10 Nov 2022
    Did you install Firefox Translations? If so, the feature to turn off translation bar will come very soon in the next version according to this bug.
  • Firefox 106 released
    3 projects | /r/linux | 18 Oct 2022
    See https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations for in development languages.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gecko-dev and firefox-translations you can also consider the following projects:

chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

LibreTranslate - Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup.

WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.

lingva-translate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate

Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.

translateLocally - Fast and secure translation on your local machine, powered by marian and Bergamot.

brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues

marian-dev - Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++ - development repository

nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.

bergamot-translator - Cross platform C++ library focusing on optimized machine translation on the consumer-grade device.

datastation - App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.

firefox-translations-training - Training pipelines for Firefox Translations neural machine translation models