Firedragon's "Translate this page" won't let me disable it & why the hell Cloudflare hates it?

[johnnyciocca]

I reinstalled Garuda to try out Mocha, and decided to give FireDragon a chance this time. But two issues are bothering me the most:

Why the hell can’t I check “Never translate from Portuguese” in this annoying popup? Even if I click “Manage languages”, there’s just no way to configure this. Or even just completely disable it.

And it still shows up even if I configure Portuguese as my main language all over it:

and… oh, nice, this setting didn’t survive a FireDragon restart:

I added pt-br in this, but now when I went to check and take the screenshot, it’s not there anymore =D

And the second part… and this one even hits Garuda’s SearX a lot of times each day, is Cloudflare’s challenges. “Oh it’s just a checkbox” it’s still a checkbox too many so many times during the day - and while I occasionally could stumble upon it in the past with Garuda Dragonized & Vivaldi, it’s really on a level that it’s bothering me way too much with Mocha & FireDragon.

Ideas on what I can do to solve these two?

– edit 1

this is so messed up that SearX thinks I speak Japanese for some reason? O.o

– edit 2

OH YEAH, the third thing: how NOTHING about online calls, like Google Meet or Discord, works. Nothing.

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[SGS]

@johnnyciocca

Mocha

Mokka

and

• ONE issue per topic.

3rd

• After rebooting, post the FULL output of garuda-inxi in the body of the post (not linked externally, or collapsed with the “hide details” feature)

[johnnyciocca]

yeah ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sorry for forgetting about the inxi. It was on my clipboard

but in the end, it is ONE issue: FireDragon =p

[johnnyciocca]

@SGS

ONE issue per topic.

I’m not getting past this one, right? *sigh*

ok, should I edit this one to only one and open new topics for the rest, or just ask that this one gets locked up and open everything anew?

[dr460nf1r3]

@johnnyciocca

Garuda’s SearX a lot of times each day, is Cloudflare’s challenges. “Oh it’s just a checkbox”

Sadly this one is a compromise between failing searches due to ratelimited search engine requests because of crawlers and convenience. I have not found a better way yet.

@johnnyciocca

OH YEAH, the third thing: how NOTHING about online calls, like Google Meet or Discord, works. Nothing.

Are we having any striking reports in the browser console?

I would like to ask you to test these issues on the beta version of firedragon. Besides being recent Firefox base the underlying Floorp also underwent major changes.

[elite]

@johnnyciocca

OH YEAH, the third thing: how NOTHING about online calls, like Google Meet or Discord, works. Nothing.

change the privacy settings and enable web rtc

[johnnyciocca]

@elite

change the privacy settings and enable web rtc

weirdly enough, what solved the problem was enabling the autoplay of audio and video for them O.o

– edit

and now that I went to a page that I want it to translate(1), it won’t pop up that stupidly annoying pop up!!! why? o.o

but then I open Google Translate and Firedragon wants to translate it for me. FROM MY OWN LANGUAGE.

But it won’t popup asking to translate a goddamn website written in Japanese!

Browser language is set to Portuguese (BR), and still it keeps asking to translate stuff from that to English.

I’m done with this colonialist browser =p

oh yeah, before that. I just remembered that the Language settings for “choose your preferred language for browsing” (or whatever it is in English, right below the arrow in the screenshot above) DOESN’T SAVE.

I put Português(br) in first…

Click Ok. Close the browser, open it back and… it’s gone

[TNE]

@dr460nf1r3

I have not found a better way yet.

We could let the fire dragon UA bypass it!

[johnnyciocca]

@dr460nf1r3

Sadly this one is a compromise between failing searches due to ratelimited search engine requests because of crawlers and convenience.

after a few more days using it, I can confirm that this isn’t strict to SearX… Cloudflare seems to dislike Firedragon. When I used other Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi or Edge, I’d rarely see a challenge from it… but on Firedragon, I think every single website that uses it will challenge me when I first try to access it that day.

[BoxFoxCode]

The Firefox “Translate this page…” feature has a quirk in that “Always offer” does not care what your language is set to in the browser, but what it thinks your locale is or something.
For example, if I change my language from English to German, it will continue to not offer the pop-up (if “Always offer” is true) on English pages and will still pop-up on German pages.

The additional options of “Always translate this language” and “Never translate this language” are based on the language set in the browser. They’re disabled for whatever language is set and available for all others. So only when whatever it sees as your locale matches what language is set in browser does the UI match how it would seem it should function.

Considering that SearX is starting in Japanese, first guess is that it is functioning as if your locale is Japanese. Is there any reasoning the locale might be being registered differently? (Potentially it could only be effecting ESR.)

[johnnyciocca]

@BoxFoxCode

They’re disabled for whatever language is set and available for all others.

so that’s the problem I’m seeing in FireDragon - they are ALWAYS disabled, no matter for what language the website is and no matter what language I’ve set in the FireDragon settings… =(

[BoxFoxCode]

There are “about:config” variables for it as comma separated language tags if you are curious if it’s completely broken or not if you want to set them manually.
“browser.translations.alwaysTranslateLanguages”
“browser.translations.neverTranslateLanguages”

However, there’s another that doesn’t have much mention and maybe is related to the offering to translate and the translate section in settings. (“browser.translation.neverForLanguages”)
Although the “…prompt to translate…” in settings, but not ESR, is the same setting as “Always offer…” in the pop-up’s gear menu. (“browser.translations.automaticallyPopup”)

If it’s broken in a manner that it believes everything is the set language and the wrong locale, it probably won’t respect those settings in line with that.

The feature in it’s entirety, same as “Enable fullpage translations” that’s not in ESR settings and thus not in Firedragon/Floorp 11 setting, is: “browser.translations.enable”
Similarly you could set that to false to see if you can even disable the feature completely as it should.

Not in the settings at all are for the panel button and the context menu option for selections:
“browser.translations.panelShown”
“browser.translations.select.enable”

Floorp 12 on 140 replacing Floorp 11 on 128ESR will likely come before someone who could would figure this out. I’d guess knowing if the problem is in “beta” or Firefox 128ESR would be useful to such a person or for narrowing possibilities.

For other consideration, “intl.locale.requested” is used for that browser language setting. It should be empty be default and change to the language tag for the language you set or a comma separated list for alternatives. I bring that up since you said that the language preference doesn’t stay; however, additionally I notice that despite the displayed options and supposedly being set to English, the text displayed is still in Portuguese. If it was actually set to English, the settings menu would be in English too. So something more is very wrong.

And “javascript.use_us_english_locale” is likely set to true as a privacy spoof feature. That’s for sites that use the default javascript to ask for what language to display. If it chooses or checks otherwise, then that doesn’t matter.

[johnnyciocca]

awesome! at least this one didn’t reset over a browser restart!

along with setting the browser.translations.neverTranslateLanguages option to en,pt were also kept… and adding them thru the about:config interface made them show up in the translation configurations area.

Unlike this one which reset yet again >.>

it’s like FireDragon just won’t save this setting anywhere, so every time I restart the browser I need to config it all over again… or at least I used to, but those two options you gave me, @BoxFoxCode, resolved that! Thanks!

[dr460nf1r3]

@TNE

We could let the fire dragon UA bypass it!

Nice idea, but this one isn’t even used iirc. It breaks websites

@johnnyciocca

Unlike this one which reset yet again >.>

You can try setting it via the overrides file described in the docs.

Great work @BoxFoxCode !

[johnnyciocca]

@dr460nf1r3

You can try setting it via the overrides file described in the docs.

I just learned about the overrides file from this other thread I was looking into, because I’m trying to play a game and it won’t let me, complaining that WebGL2 is missing…

I’ll look into it some more, because it seems adding the overrides file to the profile directory and adding defaultPref("webgl.disabled", false); in it wasn’t enough to play the game =(

– edit

I obviously must have done something wrong… the file is there

but on about:config…