In the nightly builds of Firefox, on which Firefox 120 will be based, the list of language models in the built-in machine translation system, enabled by default since Firefox 118, has been expanded. In addition to the initially available models for English, Bulgarian, Danish, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Italian, and Portuguese, models for Russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Catalan, Norwegian, Persian, Czech, and Hungarian have been offered for testing.
No information has been provided regarding the time frame for integrating additional languages into the stable branch (models may be delivered separately from the releases once a sufficient level of readiness is reached). The built-in translation system in Firefox, which translates on the user's local system without relying on external cloud services, is based on the open-source Bergamot engine. This engine serves as a wrapper over the Marian machine translation framework, utilizing recurrent neural networks (RNN) and transformer-based language models.
Among the changes in the nightly builds, a new button for quickly clearing the private browsing session can be noted, pressing which will close all windows and tabs in private browsing mode and delete the associated cookies, history, and data. Additionally, the browser provides the ability to search across all open tabs using the prefix "%" in the address bar, regardless of the active container.
Source: opennet.ru
