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I am using an online site to view PDFs of books. One that I am looking at is written in Japanese. But the writing is in some cases hand written on the pages, and not recognized as text by the browser. Yes, I am aware that I can take a screenshot, or maybe even a few pages worth of pdfs and then use google translate, I haven't figured out how many pdfs make a file "too big" yet, and I will eventually go this route if I get invested enough. But isn't there a way to have the browser simply recognized the text written in the pdf image as japanese, and translate it as I view it? Or, failing that, I've heard about a magic window you can move around kinda like a zoom lense that translates all language of one sort into a language of your choosing as you move the window over that part of the page.... but after looking around a bit, I'm having trouble figuring that out. Does anyone know how to do that at least? Or I'm open to any helpful suggestions that might be useful in the scenario I described here. I can't be the only one interested in texts written in other languages. I mean, what about the manga community? That's exactly where this would be relevant. Personally I am probably the biggest manga reader I know, but my interest in this case stems from wanting to read the text in origami diagrams. I'm leaving this because my kitten is being a pain in the ass and swatting my hands whenever i try to type and I'm already bordering on TMI so what say you Firefox forum people? end transmission.

I love Firefox it's my favorite browser that I've used of all the mainline ones I've tried. But I would love to know if there's anything I could do to improve my browsing experience on both iOS and my android. They feel a bit slow while on pc it's quick

I'm not sure if this is a right place to ask, but since calendars are on Thunderbird page I guess it is. I downloaded a calendar from https://www.thunderbird.net/uk/calendar/holidays/ for Ukraine (direct link -- https://www.thunderbird.net/media/caldata/autogen/UkraineHolidays.ics) and it doesn't contain any holiday. I did that from my Nextcloud server and directly from browser -- both times result is the same.

Every time I manually update firefox, it reinstalls the automatic update malware "Mozilla Maintenance Service". I can't stop this malware from being installed with my browser every time I update Firefox. I call it malware because its not wanted, and it behaves like malware by secretly downloading content without my consent and then shutting down my browser when it finishes by blocking access to all new tabs.

I've tried adding policies to stop auto updates, but Mozilla Maintenance Service ignores all policies. I'm going to see if I can contact AVG and explain to them that Mozilla Maintenance Service is malware and see if I can get it classified as such to see if that'll finally get through to someone because I'm sick of this crap constantly being installed and forcing things on me whenever they want and not when I want.

Now after this update, every google search forces open my location service trying to force me to give location rights. This update is even more malware than all the other updates before hand. Firefox is getting extremely dangerous.

Fixing recent UI mistakes

It started with that new button on the menu bar to the left of the arrows which IMO was just clutter. I don't even remember what it was supposed to do but at least it was easy to remove.

The next UI mistake IMO was adding the new "Profiles" menu as a main menu entry instead of as a submenu under "Files" or "Tools". This new entry renders dead last after the older menu bar is already onscreen (why?). Many times I am clicking "Tools" or "Help" only to have those pushed left just as clicked. Maybe I am too quick with the mouse, but this feels like a prank not a feature. I saw no way to move "Profiles" to a submenu so I had to disable the feature in about:config.

Now there is a new menu option "Help->Share Firefox" placed as the last submenu entry where "About Firefox" has always been, so out of habit I am hitting "Share" when I really want "About". Again this feels like a prank. Wouldn't "Share" make more sense under "Tools"?

These bad UI decisions could be alleviated with a way to edit the menu organization. Is this feature available? Maybe as a theme?

My iPad, my thankfully, my iPhone, which is a 14 Pro Max with iOS 26 and ever since I got it things haven’t worked correctly. Something always goes wrong. My iPad is an iPad Air. That will be two years old this Christmas for some reason there are no passwords in my iPad at all and then I realized yesterday there’s no bookmarks either trying to add them and my phone will crash when you open the Passwords and I have to power off the phone and reset the phone 2-4 times a day same thing with the iPad when things are getting worse as far as not responding to things I clear my history. I delete all my data and the same thing I have to go to general and shut down my iPad for a little while and then reboot it up is the only way to clear things to op around and jump around. A google bot tried to help me wanted me to skip the password. You’re locked out now and there was a code we could use instead take a picture of the code and he’s making me do it with my iPad and then I see it. It’s supposed to be a computer which I don’t have. I am stuck with just a iPad and an iPhone and I went to Reddit and people have ideas and he’s got me with everything off except the top two blue set open and I know that that’s not right I never had just those two before.

When I transfer messages from an on-line email account to a local folder, they do not display in the local folder. Activity manager states the messages have been transferred.

Well, you know, for translation between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese, it's quite simple, people just need to replace one word's (if it has) simplified form to traditional form (or vice versa) without changing the word itself.

(Even if you want more changes, there are indeed some flavor difference about using which words to describe one thing. For example, 硬件/硬體，it means hardware, but 體's simplified form is 体，so there's a little difference on the selection of words. But at its maximum, it's still in order and in low amount.)

However the translation provided by Firefox processes this like it's a total of 2 different languages and it results in a totally different output. Moreover, the output losts almost all original logics (not literally “all” but a 25~50% can already ruin any translation), which means it's unreadable, it's not translation in any degree but a nonsense writing.

So, are you using a low quality machinery translation and by the logic SCh-En-TCh?

I don't know if "Accounts" is the right category, but none of the other categories seem right either...

I try to submit ideas or comment on other ideas, but my ideas and comments never get reviewed. It's been three years and all of my ideas are still awaiting approval. How many years does it usually take for them to review your ideas? I see other people whose ideas were definitely reviewed and approved much faster, as some of them are commenting on recent updates that are less than 3 years old. The top idea right now was very clearly posted within the last week or so because it addresses the new Nova update that just wet out a couple days ago,

How do I get my Ideas to be reviewed? Three years seems like a really long time to expect people to wait. The program has been updated so many times within the last three years... I wated my ideas to be considered within the time-frame when they were relevant. Obviously.