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dotancohen • last Tuesday at 5:44 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

  > Translation?
Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in my PDF viewer and Office viewer as well.

  > Image search?
Sounds like a web site, not a browser feature.

  > Live captions?
Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in VLC as well.

  > Dubbing?
Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in VLC as well.

  > Summary?
Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in my PDF viewer and Office viewer as well.

  > Rewrite text better?
Sounds like a great OS feature. I might want to use this in my PDF viewer and Office viewer as well.

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esafak • last Tuesday at 5:46 PM

So you're not going to get it until your OS decides to, and if its implementation is poor you're SOL?

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inopinatus • last Tuesday at 10:00 PM

The mindset of every browser vendor is that they are the OS now, and all that kernel and userland guff merely supporting infrastructure.

marcosdumay • last Tuesday at 6:13 PM

> Sounds like a great OS feature.

Cool, and some DEs make it possible to start implementing this for most applications today. But Mozilla is not KDE or Gnome, so the most they can do is to make this on their software, and make it easy to copy for the entire system.

> Sounds like a web site, not a browser feature.

Sounds like a bit of lack of imagination on your part. Do you think the same for text search?

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