Some Plugin Failures (Text to Speech/Google Translate) - FireDragon

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I find it weird that the google translate plugin and text to speech plugins work well on floorp but not on firedragon, is there a hack to make them work?

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Possibly related to the many security/privacy settings we have set.

I will redirect to the usual steps to follow to pinpoint with more accuracy where or when this happens: Troubleshooting - FireDragon browser 🔥🐉

Let me know what works with these plugins and what doesn’t.

I have a high confidence if you rename /usr/lib/firedragon/firedragon.cfg to anything else your plugins would work.

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Ok, will try and update you.

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How do you enable those plugins?

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When I download the plugins I also allow for private window.

  • Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader (disabled)
  • : That’s one the second plugin that has failed on firedragon for me. Note that it says disabled but I have allowed all permissions, everything.
  • : Google Translate also doesn’t work. I understand that its in beta, but it works flawlessy in floorp
  • Both this plugins crash on Firedragon

–Surprisingly, this are the only two not working for me at the moment. With free time , I will try what you recommended.

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Like this exact one?

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For google Translate, I just use the one that came with Firedragon. I didn’t download it from the store.

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And this is the error you get?

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Yes, It works on Floorp though.

Translate this section option…

On Floorp
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On Firedragon
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I thought would fix itself someday, but today I also noticed my text to speech not working.

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This is NOT Google translate.
It is a new Firefox feature.

For the error, it could be a bug (it’s a Beta), or some setting for privacy.

This feature can also be used off-line, if you download relevant language data.
Look for translation in FF Settings.

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Thanks for the explanation. Suprisingly it works on Floorp but not on Firedragon. My settings are mirrored i.e My Floorp and Firedragon settings are the same - unless there are some internal Firedragon and Floorp difference that I wouldn’t be able to know.

Since the translate tool is in beta, lets not stress about it, however I also noticed some plugins will just not work including :

and a few that I have forgotten since I wasn’t really paying attention

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That’s firedragon.cfg, in essence.
If you rename it and relaunch FD, the plugin will work. I just tested it.
From there you can follow the steps in my 1st post (the URL) to pinpoint which CATEGORY, then which SECTION and then which setting(s) affect this.

I know that sounds to be a long process, but thank god the ~800 lines are relatively well segregated into sections and subsections, it takes less time than we think, most of the time.

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Thanks, at a brief glance after the rename some plugins started working.

I’ll probably have to spare time to go through what is messing up. For now let me just sit with my settings. :sweat_smile:

Thanks.

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If you identify the settings causing those various plugins to not work, plz let us know, we will assess the possibility to permanently change those settings in firedragon.cfg, there’s always a balance to hit between security/privacy and usability, nothing says FD is at balance already. :smile:

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I’m assuming that one of the URLs we set to none is used to query the API from Mozilla servers. Now gotta find out which one it is.

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