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Comment by devit

19 days ago

Huh? Most Firefox users presumably use it, and anyway it's obviously essential and extremely useful functionality.

And the really important languages for EU/US audiences are, in order, English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Italian, which is, guess what, 7 languages...

> Huh? Most Firefox users presumably use it, and anyway it's obviously essential and extremely useful functionality.

~~Only Firefox users who explicitly enable offline translation per langauge in Settings use this feature~~, which will be a tiny minority of users in a browser with a tiny (~2.5%) market share.

I'm wrong, the language packs now auto-download.

> And the really important languages for EU/US audiences are, in order, English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Italian, which is, guess what, 7 languages...

Well, those weren't the seven languages supported by the Bergamot project when it ended. Only two of your seven were supported: Bulgarian, Czech, English, Estonian, French, Polish, and Spanish.