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# Firefox 117 Release Adds Automated Translation Feature Support
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-117-release/
- Published: 2023-08-30T03:27:19.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-30T03:27:19.000Z
- Description: Firefox 117 release brings along necessary improvements and a new feature support for the upcoming upgrade.
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: Application Releases, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

Firefox is a browser loved by many, hated by few. But, as **an open-source alternative to Chromium-based browsers** such as Chrome and Opera, it constantly evolves to add new features to its arsenal.

And this time around, with the **Firefox 117** release, we have an interesting addition that was in the making for quite some time now.

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Allow me to take you through that, and more in this article. Let's begin.

## 🆕 Firefox 117: What's New?

![a screenshot of mozilla firefox 117 about page](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/08/Mozilla_Firefox_Translate_1.png)

Like most Firefox releases, this too has a lot to offer. Some notable highlights include:

- **New privacy-focused native translation feature** (*a work in progress*)
- **Expansion of the credit card autofill feature to more locales.**
- **YouTube video lists now scroll correctly with a screen reader.**

While the feature set sounds good, let us focus on the translation feature.

### Privacy-Focused Translations

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As shown in the demo above, Firefox now features an in-built translation tool. 

Its main selling point is that **all language translations happen locally**, without your data being sent to any server for processing.

This kind of functionality already existed in Firefox thanks to an add-on called '[Firefox Translations](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/?ref=itsfoss.com)'.

But, [back then](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/neural-machine-translation-engine-for-firefox-translations-add-on/?ref=itsfoss.com), integrating this directly into Firefox was discarded owing to its third-party dependencies after Mozilla's internal security review of the engine codebase.

Luckily, now we have proper native functionality. **But, there's a catch.**

🚧

Thanks to [Ghack](https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/29/firefox-117-native-language-translations-last-firefox-102-update-and-security-fixes/?ref=itsfoss.com), I found that **the translation feature was disabled by default on Firefox 117\. They plan to gradually roll it out to users, and by default on its next version update**.

So, to test it out, I had to manually enable it by going into '**about:config**', then enabling the 'b**rowser.translations.enable**' flag among advanced preferences.

![a screenshot of mozilla firefox 117 advanced preferences](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/08/Mozilla_Firefox_Translate_3.png)

### 🛠️ Other Changes and Improvements

Other than that, here are a few other changes that are worth noting:

- Various security updates.
- macOS users can now control the tabability of controls and links.
- Web compatibility inspection has been enhanced for their new CSS compatibility tooltip. (useful for web developers)
- A new preference to allow for the disabling of the context menu that appears when pressing shift+right-click.

You can go through the [release notes](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/117.0/releasenotes/?ref=itsfoss.com) to dive deeper into this release.

## 📥 Get Mozilla Firefox 117

You can grab the latest release of Firefox from its [FTP portal](https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/117.0/?ref=itsfoss.com). It should be available on the [official website](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/download/thanks/?ref=itsfoss.com) shortly, if it is not yet available.

[Mozilla Firefox 117](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/download/thanks/?ref=itsfoss.com)

**For existing installations:** You can update it by searching for '**Update**', in the settings menu, and clicking on '**Check for Updates**'.

*💬 What do you think about the new automated translation feature support with Firefox 117? Share your thoughts in the comments down below.*