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 "Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine."

I got to see the early demos of this and it is jaws-on-the-floor bonkers wizard magic. Entirely local - and good - translation with no cloud service and like 6MB of storage per language.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/ 
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The translation module is the labour of a number of European universities in partnership with the Mozilla foundation and the funding for it came from the EU.

You can read about it here: https://browser.mt/

It's a real shame this information didn't make it to the release notes.