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How do you disable the feature entirely? I got a popup today for this today in Firefox, and I don't want any popups.

Its pretty self explanatory. You can select like "never translate language X again" and you do that for the languages you do not want to translated. That cant be that many.

I do not think you are browsing like 10 languages that you do not want translated so you do not need any "disable completely" option. But I guess there is, maybe in about:config if not in the settings.

At least in my FF, the "never translate x language" doesn't seem to work. I needed to tinker with the browser configuration to remove the popup.

I do not think you are browsing like 10 languages that you do not want translated so you do not need any "disable completely" option.

Ten probably not, but with 4 it's already annoying… Also the translation is bad enough that you may want to disable it entirely to use other services instead (at least that was my experience so far)

I want zero popups from my web browser. One was already one too many. The total number of languages is irrelevant.

Two months later: "oh wow, I can't believe they didn't tell me about (next implemented feature you may care about)"

They have a lot of different users with varying skill levels. One time popups demonstrating new features is a net win for them.

I guess you could build a toggle for "disable tutorials" for the 2% that need it.

One time popups demonstrating new features is a net win for them.

It's not just a one time popup though.

It's a "net win" for whatever manager and/or engineer is trying to get an internal promotion by externally promote their new feature. Every company seems to want to add popups everywhere in order to promote their new features.

(The worst is GitHub, who are constantly promoting new features that I don't care about.)

about:config then search translat (missing e on purpose. They have "translate" and "translation" options)

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