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CPU-optimized Neural Machine Translation models for Firefox Translations

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2022-06-02 · latest 2026-01-16

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  1. The local translation in Firefox is an NMT model, not an LLM: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models?tab=r... It's much more efficient on system resources than the larger LLMs downloaded by browsers for other tasks.
    comment by corbindavenport · 2026-01-16 · in Just the Browser
  2. It is AI-based, you can check the source code: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models
    comment by cyberax · 2025-11-23 · in The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy
  3. …that I ended up making an Android app[1] just to have them available also outside of Firefox. [0]: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/ [1]: https://github.com/davidventura/firefox-translator
    comment by deivid · 2025-09-02 · in What's New with Firefox 142
  4. You can use bergamot ( https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator ) with Mozilla's models ( https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models ). Not the easiest, but easy enough (requires building). I used these two projects to…
    comment by deivid · 2025-06-25 · in Web Translator API
  5. …either of them without evidence given how unexpected both of them would be from my perspective. [0] https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/tree/...
    comment by fc417fc802 · 2025-06-04 · in AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder
  6. …a standalone binary instead of a WebExtension. - https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations - https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models - https://github.com/mozilla/bergamot-translator Note that most of the heavy NLP code…
    comment by cyber_kinetist · 2022-08-08 · in Official Firefox add-on bringing offline translation support to Firefox
  7. Looks like a french model was added 17 days ago https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/tree/...
    comment by EastSmith · 2022-07-10 · in On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations
  8. …[3] https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator/tree/main/w... [4] https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/tree/...
    comment by andrenatal1 · 2022-06-03 · in Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
  9. …a github link anywhere, and I'm not sure if the models are freely usable. EDIT: maybe this is it: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models also some info here: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-training
    comment by coder543 · 2022-06-02 · in Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot