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by lxgr 879 days ago
The same is true for translations in most browsers, right? At least I'm not aware of any browser that does it client-side/offline.

Edit: I stand corrected, Firefox does it offline! Thank you, Firefox team, this is awesome and I'll likely be using it more often now :)

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Firefox does local LLM based translation. I kicked that project off in 2022 and it shipped last year.
Thank you, I find it really useful
> Unlike other browsers that rely on cloud services, Firefox keeps your data safe on your device. There's no privacy risk of sending text to third parties for analysis because translation happens on your device, not externally.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

Oh, cool! I somehow misremembered that very announcement as being cloud-based (but using an open model).
Firefox does it offline