Firefox 117 Release Adds Automated Translation Feature Support
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Firefox 117 release brings along necessary improvements and a new
feature support for the upcoming upgrade.
Firefox is a browser loved by many, hated by few. But, as **an open-source alternative to Chromium-based browsers** such as Chrome and Opera, it constantly evolves to add new features to its arsenal.
And this time around, with the **Firefox 117** release, we have an interesting addition that was in the making for quite some time now.
**Suggested Read** 📖
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Allow me to take you through that, and more in this article. Let's begin.
## 🆕 Firefox 117: What's New?
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Like most Firefox releases, this too has a lot to offer. Some notable highlights include:
* **New privacy-focused native translation feature** ( _a work in progress_ )
* **Expansion of the credit card autofill feature to more locales.**
* **YouTube video lists now scroll correctly with a screen reader.**
While the feature set sounds good, let us focus on the translation feature.
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As shown in the demo above, Firefox now features an in-built translation tool.
Its main selling point is that **all language translations happen locally** , without your data being sent to any server for processing.
This kind of functionality already existed in Firefox thanks to an add-on called '[Firefox Translations][3]'.
But, [back then][4], integrating this directly into Firefox was discarded owing to its third-party dependencies after Mozilla's internal security review of the engine codebase.
Luckily, now we have proper native functionality. **But, there's a catch.**
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Thanks to [Ghack][5], I found that **the translation feature was disabled by default on Firefox 117. They plan to gradually roll it out to users, and by default on its next version update**.
So, to test it out, I had to manually enable it by going into ' **about:config** ', then enabling the 'b **rowser.translations.enable** ' flag among advanced preferences.
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### 🛠️ Other Changes and Improvements
Other than that, here are a few other changes that are worth noting:
* Various security updates.
* macOS users can now control the tabability of controls and links.
* Web compatibility inspection has been enhanced for their new CSS compatibility tooltip. (useful for web developers)
* A new preference to allow for the disabling of the context menu that appears when pressing shift+right-click.
You can go through the [release notes][7] to dive deeper into this release.
## 📥 Get Mozilla Firefox 117
You can grab the latest release of Firefox from its [FTP portal][8]. It should be available on the [official website][9] shortly, if it is not yet available.
[Mozilla Firefox 117][9]
**For existing installations:** You can update it by searching for ' **Update** ', in the settings menu, and clicking on ' **Check for Updates** '.
_💬 What do you think about the new automated translation feature support with Firefox 117? Share your thoughts in the comments down below._
