[BUG] AI settings unavailability adversely affects all translation function across all sites. #256
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Releasespage.What web browser(s) are you using with Phoenix?
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ubuntu 24.04
What version of Firefox/Gecko and Phoenix are you using?
FF 149.0.2
Phoenix 2026.03.31.1
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Please explain the issue you are experiencing.
The AI section in settings is absent. As translations are now controlled by AI settings, and now translations do not function, I would like to be able to access AI settings.
Please provide detailed steps to reproduce the issue.
Translation function is unavailable at all times, for any website. I need translations to be available. I need AI settings to be available in order to access translation function, and whatever related settings to be undone such that language translations function properly.
[BUG] PLEASE REPLACE THIS TEXT WITH A SUMMARY OF YOUR ISSUE...to [BUG] AI settings unavailability adversely affects all translation function across all sites.@GW72 Hey, thanks for the report. We definitely support Translations, and in fact, we go out of our way to explicitly enable it with the new AI pref (
browser.ai.control.translations). Translations should work regardless of whether the AI setting panel is enabled, but you can re-enable it if desired by settingbrowser.ai.control.translationstotrue- though that shouldn't make a difference.If possible, can you please try setting
javascript.options.main_process_disable_jittofalse, and restarting the browser? Apparently, according to #254, that pref can cause issues with Translations - though I haven't been able to replicate them in testing. If that pref does it fix for you, please LMK, because I'll probably disable it by default if it does.Sorry to hear you're still having trouble with Translations after all this time... I guess it just hates you personally for some reason :P.
@celenity thanks for the solution, which was to set to
falsethe configjavascript.options.main_process_disable_jit. I can add that for the same version ofphoenixonwindows 11 25H2, translations continued to work as normal without interventions on FF 149. Other than this curse of translation roulette on ubuntu,phoenixworks flawlessly and I am grateful for all your efforts.Checking with
grokit seems thisconfigset tofalsedoes (at least currently with FF 149) not seem to impart any huge extra security risk or concerns at least until the next iteration of something likeCVE-2019-11707 + IPC logic bugcomes around. Perhaps it would be more appropriate for inclusion in theextended hardeningoption?@GW72 Thank you for confirming!
There actually is an upstream bug about this, but, until it's fixed - yes, I agree this is the best course of action. Will be done for next release, thanks again for your time and support! :)