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The state of translation extensions in Firefox is catastrophic. The useful ones got deleted from the store. As far as I can tell the only reason was to flex som

The state of translation extensions in Firefox is catastrophic. The useful ones got deleted from the store. As far as I can tell the only reason was to flex some policy choices by the extension store(?) team. So you pretty much have to have Chromium as a backup if you ever need to research non-Anglo content. I can see people moving to Chromium because of this and other similar problems with extensions being broken (like the tridactyl thing).

bovine3dom 6y ago
You can use userscripts (e.g. with Violentmonkey [1]) for Google Translate, e.g. [2]. Since you mentioned Tridactyl you might be interested to know that I wrote my own command to inject Google Translate on demand [3]. The extensions you mentioned were removed because they execute remote code. Mozilla are trying to tighten these restrictions [4]. I think Chrome is moving in a similar direction. I don't think that will affect the user script work-around as they execute in the page context, but I could be wrong. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/violentmonkey/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/violentmonkey... [2]: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9285-translate-google-tooltip https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9285-translate-google-tool... [3]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/c776f722944714eef77a8dc3dd82d0e813befdab/.tridactylrc#L140 https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/c776f722944714ee... [4]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/12/12/test-the-new-csp-for-content-scripts/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/12/12/test-the-new-csp-...
- cmeacham98 6y ago
  I've never heard of violentmonkey, how does it compare to grease/tampermonkey?
  - bovine3dom 6y ago
    Violentmonkey is very actively developed [1]. Greasemonkey isn't [2]. Tampermonkey is closed source so I view it with some suspicion. Otherwise they're all pretty much the same, as far as I know (I don't use them extensively). [1]: https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey/graphs/contributors https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey/graphs/contri... [2]: https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/graphs/contributors https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/graphs/contribu...

bovine3dom 6y ago

You can use userscripts (e.g. with Violentmonkey [1]) for Google Translate, e.g. [2]. Since you mentioned Tridactyl you might be interested to know that I wrote my own command to inject Google Translate on demand [3]. The extensions you mentioned were removed because they execute remote code. Mozilla are trying to tighten these restrictions [4]. I think Chrome is moving in a similar direction. I don't think that will affect the user script work-around as they execute in the page context, but I could be wrong. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/violentmonkey/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/violentmonkey... [2]: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9285-translate-google-tooltip https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9285-translate-google-tool... [3]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/c776f722944714eef77a8dc3dd82d0e813befdab/.tridactylrc#L140 https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/c776f722944714ee... [4]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/12/12/test-the-new-csp-for-content-scripts/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/12/12/test-the-new-csp-...

cmeacham98 6y ago
I've never heard of violentmonkey, how does it compare to grease/tampermonkey?
- bovine3dom 6y ago
  Violentmonkey is very actively developed [1]. Greasemonkey isn't [2]. Tampermonkey is closed source so I view it with some suspicion. Otherwise they're all pretty much the same, as far as I know (I don't use them extensively). [1]: https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey/graphs/contributors https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey/graphs/contri... [2]: https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/graphs/contributors https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/graphs/contribu...