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I stand corrected on this point, the language packs now auto-download. It's still a niche feature only partially built by a Horizon project (it was almost enti
by closewith 2y ago
I stand corrected on this point, the language packs now auto-download.
It's still a niche feature only partially built by a Horizon project (it was almost entirely built by commercial entities - MS and Mozilla) in a niche browser.
It's an indictment of the Horizon programme that this is considered the pre-eminent success story.
- VagabundoP 2y agoIts actually helped me a twice the last two weeks and I would browse mostly English language sites and I imagine it would be great if English wasn't your first language. I didn't even know it was a new Firefox feature but I thought it was cool. Well done EU.
- lxgr 2y agoYou really can't win with some people. If the EU invests into research and development of a feature that a US tech company already offers (as a proprietary, closed-source service), it's needless duplication and a futile effort in catching up. Yet if it doesn't, that's admitting defeat in the face of competitors and the wrong move as well.
- closewith 2y ago> If the EU invests into research and development of a feature that a US tech company already offers (as a proprietary, closed-source service), it's needless duplication and a futile effort in catching up. The example we're talking about is powered by a Marian, developed and open-sourced by a US multinational, Microsoft. The Horizon project was to use that to create a Firefox plugin, which they did. Another US multinational, Mozilla, later integrated into Firefox. Firefox has 4.55% market share in Europe. > Yet if it doesn't, that's admitting defeat in the face of competitors and the wrong move as well. You are presenting a false and frankly bad faith dichotomy.