• JasSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    Sadly Firefox on iPhone doesn’t translate [human languages]. I don’t want to use Chrome on iPhone and Firefox on PC because synchronising bookmarks and history is too important to give up.

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        Blame Apple for that bullshit.

        This one isn’t on Apple. There’s nothing stopping Firefox from having translate on iPhone. It’s on Chrome and Edge.

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            1 year ago

            It’s available as an add-on for Firefox on PC. Language translation is built into the application for Chrome and Edge on iPhone.

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              Yes, that’s what I’m trying to say. The browsers have different methods for providing same functionality. But due to restrictions on one platform, Firefox can’t provide the functionality that the users want.

              Also no-addons policy means no adblock either. Which is quite an L.

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                But due to restrictions on one platform, Firefox can’t provide the functionality that the users want.

                With all due respect, I don’t think you understand. There is no restriction on language translation on iPhone. Firefox merely doesn’t support built-in language translation. It might have been easier for them if Apple permitted add-ons on iPhone, but it definitely does not prevent language translation. Chrome and Edge have built language translation into their apps for iPhone to facilitate this. Firefox could do the same, but have chosen not to.

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                  Firefox doesn’t do that because modularity has been their thing for a long time while Google and MS would prefer if you’d start using their browsers as they are.

                  Apple’s restrictions aren’t targeted towards Firefox but inadvertently do exactly that.

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                    1 year ago

                    Yes, Firefox has chosen not to support language translation on iPhones, which is why I don’t use it.

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      I don’t own an iPhone, but this seems like a totally fair criticism and I don’t see any replies refuting it, so what’s with all the downvotes? I swear to god this place is ridiculous sometimes, these people won’t be happy until you jump through every hoop imaginable to use the Lemmy approved software. Only positive feedback allowed!

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        because this is inherently Apple’s fault and not Mozilla’s.

        Apple’s the one forcing every browser on iOS to be a reskinned version of Safari. And it’s perfectly understandable that Mozilla doesn’t want to waste time and resources developing features for a Firefox-branded Safari when they could be working on their own browser.

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          What’s your point? The dude gave a perfectly valid reason to not using Firefox, regardless of who’s fault it is.

          But also, how on earth would building a functional browser for a phone that owns 55% of the US market share be a waste of time and resources?

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            it’s a perfectly valid reason for not using Firefox, my point is that they’re on the wrong platform. It’s the user’s own fault, because they chose a closed platform like iOS. Developing free software for iOS is a waste of time, since everything is under Apple’s tyrannical rule and they get to decide which web engine you use, they can disallow extensions and make it very hard (and against their ToS) to sideload apps.

            I don’t like Mozilla at all, and that’s why I use Firefox derivatives and not Firefox itself, but I’m glad they don’t waste time developing for a re-skinned Safari. Those resources are best used in their own web engine.

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              these people won’t be happy until you jump through every hoop imaginable to use the Lemmy approved software

              and hardware apparently lol