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I generally truly love using @firefox This new feature of intrusively suggesting to translate shit is beyond me though. Just shove off with that crap and ask me to opt IN (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 years ago by martijndevrieze@mastodon.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I generally truly love using @firefox This new feature of intrusively suggesting to translate shit is beyond me though. Just shove off with that crap and ask me to opt IN rather than make me search how to opt out.
That popup is intrusive and I hate firefox for it.

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[–] mnmalst@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 years ago

go to about:config

search for browser.translations

You can either disable it completely or just disable the popup.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

this is such a minor thing to complain about

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The popup itself offers the option to

never suggest translating language

Doesn't it?

[–] martijndevrieze@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@miss_brainfart it seems to only do that for that site

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Or for that language.

[–] PlasticFrog@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you can disable it in add-ons.

[–] martijndevrieze@mastodon.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@PlasticFrog in about: config
Thing is, I disabled it, received an update and it was enabled again.

[–] PlasticFrog@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then disable it again, perhaps restart, restart in safe mode. Can’t you remove it altogether? Like with other add-ons? And in about:config?

[–] martijndevrieze@mastodon.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@PlasticFrog it's not an add on, it's a new feature. Let's see if this time it remains disabled ;)

[–] PlasticFrog@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh apologies, but you can in general set some hard changes in the about:config section of firefox.

But hope it’s sorted for you now. :-)

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which feature?

[–] martijndevrieze@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago

@OsrsNeedsF2P
When you hit a page that's not in your ff language a popup from the browser appears suggesting to translate. Cool feature, but the popup doesn't allow me to just disable it be default