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Firefox's translation by default does pop up to interrupt and ask if you want to translate a page that it's detected is in another language. We're just more use
by roywiggins 9mo ago
Firefox's translation by default does pop up to interrupt and ask if you want to translate a page that it's detected is in another language. We're just more used to that and it's a more reliable signal that you probably want to run a tool than most.
It's still relatively new in FF and I don't think I've seen anyone complaining about it annoying them with popups, even though it absolutely does throw up an interrupting overlay, especially on mobile.
- fc417fc802 9mo agoYou can disable the popup but still invoke the tool manually from the main menu. I reaffirm my previously expressed dissatisfaction with modern software "features" and add that there are plenty of defaults in Firefox that I personally dislike. That includes anything that pops up unsolicited without good reason.
- roywiggins 9mo agoFrom a UI perspective, auto tab groups are just an extra button as far as I can tell, so it's not clear why it's getting the axe from this site, just from a pure "this is annoying" point of view. The flow is 1) you drag a tab over another tab and it suggests a name for the tab group and 2) you click on a tab group and another button offers to suggest more of your tabs you can add to the group. That's less intrusive than Firefox Translations are by default.
- downsplat 9mo agoI definitely complain about this one. I can read a few languages, and rarely if ever browse a page in a language I don't understand, so popups with "do you want to translate this" are unwelcome here. It doesn't help that in the first iterations Firefox didn't offer a quick way to turn the whole thing off.