firefox-translations/CHANGELOG.md

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Firefox Translations Changelog

Firefox Translations is a webextension developed by Mozilla that enables client side in-page translation for Firefox.

You can send suggestions or report issues to the team via any of the channels below:

You can also rate and leave us a comment on Mozilla Addons.

[v1.2.0] - 2022-11-08

Added

  • Popup page that allows the user to freely input text to be translated
  • Option to translate to a target language different than the browser's default
  • Option to return page to original state
  • The language pair currently in use is now being displayed in the translation bar
  • Introduces option to prevent the translation bar from being displayed

Changed

  • Fixed user interface and localization issues.
  • The display of the changelog now happens upon the user's choice on about:addons and in the options button.
  • Renewal of telemetry metrics
  • Normalization of language codes across the extension

[v1.1.4] - 2022-07-28

Added

  • Full Dutch support

Changed

  • Fixed caching of assets across updates that was breaking updates.
  • Fixed changelog issues
  • Remove obsolete key (applications) from manifest
  • Fixed issues where editable elements were being translated and breaking sites like Twitter

[1.1.3] - 2022-07-14

Added

  • Ukrainian models
  • French models
  • Polish models
  • English to Dutch model
  • Changelog (this page!)

Changed

  • Improved language detection that now takes into account the language set in the page's markup
  • UI is now responsive which fix issues that was extrapolating and cutting the window and breaking Firefox controls.
  • "Translation Preferences" in the options button now redirects to the Firefox Translations panel in about:preferences
  • Fixed the stopgap solution of translating in permanent private browsing mode
  • New high resolution icon
  • "Never translate this site" in the options button is now a checkbox
  • PageAction icon is now white
  • Restrict minimum version to what's compatible with the wasm engine
  • Fixes crypto UUID issues preventing telemetry from being submitted on Fx earlier than 93
  • Makes translation bar compatible with Fx versions earlier than 95
  • Improved in-page translation
  • Issues when translation of forms is incompatible with the page are fixed
  • Properly display errors when the tab contains incompatible documents
  • Translation bar is now displayed when the tab is dragged or moved between windows
  • Minor user interface improvements

Removed

  • Survey button.
  • Wormhole artifacts

[1.1.2] - 2022-05-20

Added

  • Support for private browsing mode
  • Public release on Mozilla Addons

Changed

  • Improved in-page translations
  • Improved language detection

[1.1.1] - 2022-05-06

Added

  • Telemetry
  • Bulgarian models
  • Icelandic models
  • Norwegian Bokmål models
  • Norwegian Nynorsk
  • Persian models
  • Localization of user interface
  • Intrinsics for native matmul acceleration in Nightly
  • Error highlighting
  • PageAction to trigger the translation bar
  • Survey button
  • Support for non x86 architecture
  • Auto-translate as browse
  • Error reporting using Sentry

Changed

  • Improved language detection
  • Improved translation of forms
  • Improved in-page translations
  • Improved error handling
  • Fixes and improvements on user interface
  • Improved translation worker
  • Improved translation engine
  • Improved Portuguese models
  • Improved Italian models
  • Improved translation of frames
  • Ship translation engine instead of download it

Removed

  • Translation cache

[0.5.0] - 2022-01-15

Added

  • Release of the first developer version.
  • Translation of forms
  • In-Page translations
  • Dynamic download of models and engine
  • Translation pivoting
  • New User Interface
  • Refactoring of the legacy version
  • Stats mode
  • Incorporation
  • Italian models
  • Portuguese models
  • English models
  • Russian models
  • Czech models
  • German models
  • Spanish models
  • Estonian models