Sync Update for Week 39, 2023

unclemez

EbonJaeger
I love the way you organized the thing this week.
Much more explicit with a good taste of honesty here by giving credit to him/her who deserve it

EbonJaeger

unclemez @ReillyBrogan did the changelog part. He definitely did a great job!

johano

The summarized changelog has been useful. Perhaps not essential for seasoned users of Solus, but it seems a very welcoming face to Solus for newcomers. It fits in well with the ethos of Solus as a good fit for home computing, making the significance of changes made by updates accessible to all.

Great work, and appreciated!

davidjharder

Steph Would you mind posting your firefox localization settings to this thread https://discuss.getsol.us/d/9689-firefox-dont-keep-language-setting-after-update/5

Steph

davidjharder
I posted here, because it was the first time, for the previous updates, it remained with the recorded language

Solarmass

this summarized changelog is 🔥
I read it all!

brent

Solarmass I read it all!

as do I🙂

penny-farthing

I installed 100 updates (1.16 GiB) yesterday.
Note that Firefox, since this version 118.0.1, has implement an integrated translator, which seems to me a good initiative.
As for the weekly update report (which was a recurring request from @WetGeek , if I remember correctly), it seems to me to be a great initiative, because it may us to better understand the hard work of the team of Solus developers to make Solus evolve for the well-being of its users, and to be among the really interesting Linux distributions.

brent

penny-farthing , has implement an integrated translator, which seems to me a good initiative.

unless it routes thru google then what's the point . but thanks for bringing this to my (our) attention. I have a sperate app for translations but would be nice to have on the spot in browser, will check it out.

MikeK61

I noticed after the update that my computer consumes 5 Watts more than before.
So i checked CPU-X and the cores are running at 3600MHZ before they were running at 2200MHZ idle.
A little weiired.

CPU Ryzen 1800X
Mobo Crosshair VI Hero.

Staudey

brent unless it routes thru google then what's the point

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/

Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Many thanks to the various partners of the EU R&D Bergamot project.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/

brent

Staudey so that the text being translated does not leave your machine

nice 🙀

WetGeek

Staudey Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users!

In the interest of full disclosure, one might point out that Vivaldi has also had this functionality (for a long time). Google is banned from my computers, so if the foreign text is being sent anywhere (which I doubt), it's not going to Google.

penny-farthing

WetGeek

Does Vivaldi also allow translation of an entire web page ?

Staudey

WetGeek In the interest of full disclosure, one might point out that Vivaldi has also had this functionality (for a long time). Google is banned from my computers, so if the foreign text is being sent anywhere (which I doubt), it's not going to Google.

Seems like it's not quite the same as Firefox' new implementation as the data still gets send to Vivaldi's servers, but they at least claim it's encrypted and not readable to them.

https://vivaldi.com/features/translate/

olivir

penny-farthing Yes it can with the specific icon in the adress bar.

WetGeek

Good question. I don't think I've ever tried that. I don't very often view a web page that's not already in English.

I do know that the text areas can be streched much larger. Translations aren't limited to what will fit into that original small box. And I'm sure that scroll bars can come into effect at some point.

WetGeek

WetGeek I don't very often view a web page that's not already in English.

The most I usually translate is someone's question in the forum. Vivaldi is great for that.

I tried to add the above sentence to my original message, but of course, I wasn't allowed to. 😑

brent

@WetGeek @penny-farthing

WG indeed google has no part of vivaldi's translator. it's an libre engine called Lingavex. I could not link Lingavex to google.

penny: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/panels/translate-panel/
it's appears to translate block of text. which is all I would hope firefox would do. a whole page is interesting though. have not tried this in FF yet

penny-farthing

brent

The result in pictures:

Translate from English to French:

Return to the original language of the web page:

And there it is.

brent

penny-farthing

how do I get the translate icon shoehorned into my address bar like yours is? I am extraordinarily lazy and tired tonight.

penny-farthing

brent

I noticed one thing in relation to this Firefox novelty.
If the displayed web page is in the same language as that of installing your Firefox, the icon
located on the right in the address bar does not appear; if this web page is in a different language, this icon appears and offers you to translate its content into your language, which seems rather logical.
For instance, if you have installed Firefox in the English language, the icon will not appear for all the web pages in this language, but only in a different language and will therefore offer you the translation.

In the dialog box for this function, you can find a number of parameter settings:

Likewise, in the Firefox settings:

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