Firefox Translations in Thunderbird

[nose_gnome]

It would be great if #Thunderbird added support for the Firefox Translations add-on

The add-on could allow you to translate received emails you're viewing via a click of a button, or even translate an email you're writing into another language before sending.

[Jon]

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[okay_okay]

+1 please

[MattAuSupport]

You might want to look at these addons for Thunderbird, which do translations in Thunderbird 102.

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/web_translate/?src=search

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/deepl-selected-text/?src=search

[tdulcet]

I just filed a bug to request this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1823007

[nose_gnome]

Thank you @tdulcet I'll keep an eye on that bugzilla request

[jevangelho]

Thank you for an excellent suggestion! This is something the Thunderbird team would love to see implemented. As you may know, there was some initial work done on an extension, but Firefox Translations is moving in-tree soon.

To quote Mozilla's Greg Tatum:

"We're currently working on documentation. We're also integrating the popup logic for web page translations in browser/components/translations, but that's currently a WIP. In the next few months it should be mature enough to consider for Thunderbird."

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[Jz80]

Offline translations are very important.

[lidialab]

+1 great idea

[Jon]

Hey all,

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Please keep the conversation going and stay tuned for updates 😀

[jmaris]

This is one of my key asks! I work for a public administration which works in 24 languages, and regularly recieve emails in each of those languages. I can't translate them through online translation tools due to privacy and security concerns. Having Firefox Translate in Thunderbird would be a massive improvement for me 🙂

[FANTASIA]

Thunderbird Inbuilt Translator

Why Can't Thunderbird Develop Inbuilt Translator. For e.g if We received the mail in Any Language it can be translate to our Known Language. Like if we received the mail in German or French, it will automatically Convert it to Known Language like English or Russian or others & Vise versa.

[Jon]

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[Jon]

Similar idea here: Firefox Translations in Thunderbird 

@FANTASIA If this aligns with what you're looking for, we can merge the threads together to keep the conversation focused in one place. 

Thanks so much!

[AshenPaladin]

Thunderbird could perhaps adopt and include Firefox Translations as a means of achieving this

[majesticmini471]

As long as you can convert to default (previous) language displayed, the option to translate any UTF-16/ASCI is very good.