I am on Firefox. Highlight the text you wish to translate and then right click and from the menu select "Translate the selection to..."

March 05, 2026 - 19:12 UTC

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In DuckDuckGo, I am getting a panel with an AI translation - hopeless ;-)
But, yes, the method you refer is usable.
But (second but ;-) ) a button would be lovely :-)

TC!
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it uses your phones local AI engine (not the GPT-kind) to translate posts, which doesn't exist inside browsers.
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The gap between on-device AI and what browsers can actually access is weirdly underexplored. Phones have genuinely capable local models now but there's no clean API for web apps to tap into them. What would your ideal bridge between the two look like?
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It actually does. Firefox implements this and has for years and it's hardware accelerated just like on phones.

It started as an extension in 2022, then was upstreamed in 2024 and started shipping to mobile firefox last year.

And of course android + iOS have their own native TL stuff now too.
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That somehow disappeared for me recently. Is that using AI? because I disabled that.
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Yep. Disabling AI in Firefox disables the translation tool.
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I'll stick with my FF addon, I highlight the text and the translation pops up in a box. I just wish bluesky would make it auto-translate for us. Why do they shit on computer users? Do they want to push us out? I mean I'm not married to this platform and if they just want to shit on me, I'm out.
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both iOS and Android let applications translate privately using the AI models on the device. desktop browsers do not let applications like bluesky do this. this isn't bluesky restricting anything, they're just making use of the features each platform allows for.
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Because it costs to do it inline. And there's no ad income and no subscription fees so ...
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Auto translate would be a nice shortcut for us European, with our 24 official languages and not counting the rest.
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