Firefox 128 Arrives with Built-In Language Translation Capabilities

Mozilla shipped Firefox 128 today for Windows, Mac, and Linux, adding language translation capabilities and other new features. Firefox 128 is also the next ESR (extended support release) for the browser.

“Firefox can now translate selections of text and hyperlinked text to other languages from the context menu,” the Firefox 128 release notes explain. “Firefox 128 is the next ESR so, going forward, no enterprise changes will be backported to Firefox 115 ESR,” the Firefox for Enterprise 128 release notes add. Note that Firefox 128 ESR is optional for now: Firefox 115 ESR will get two more releases before it goes out of support and users are automatically upgraded to 128 ESR.

Other new features in Firefox 128 include recent searches and trending searches in the Address bar drop-down (US and Canada only), a simpler and clearer new “Clear browsing data and cookies” interface, support for protected content like Netflix in Private Browsing mode, support for the experimental Privacy Preserving Attribution API (an alternative to user tracking for ad attribution), improved audio quality with microphone capture on macOS, and support for the Saraiki (skr) language.

You can download Firefox from the Mozilla website.