Cunning Linguist - Translate locally

Name: Cunning Linguist - Translate locally
Author: Gerold Meisinger

By: Gerold Meisinger

Translate any website using a local Ollama LLM server

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Features & Capabilities

Translate any website locally by sending each (selected) text node of a website one-by-one to a local Ollama server to translate it with a large language model (LLM) artifical intelligence and replace it inline.

Requires a Ollama installation and a GPU with at least 8GB VRAM! Install Ollama server (MIT)! On the first start this will download a huge model file of about 5GB (see Meta's Llama3.1-8b-instruct-Q4_0 model). To translate just click the extension button "Cunning Linguist (fish icon)" to translate the whole website or the selected text. On the first usage this could take a few minutes for download, a few seconds to load the whole model from disk to RAM but the text should translate one by one in a second.

Required permissions:

127.0.0.1/localhost: send API requests to your local Ollama server. No data will be transferred outside of your computer!
activeTab: change text in tabs
storage: save settings

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Gerold Meisinger

Daily users:

3 -1

Version:

0.1 Last updated: 2024-09-02

Version code:

5801582

Creation date:

2024-09-01

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
storage
*://127.0.0.1/*
*://localhost/*

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

85.57KB

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-16

Compare stats and ranking:

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# 53,317 ▼ 6,312

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Developed by:

Gerold Meisinger

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fftranslator/

Website:

https://gitlab.com/gerold.meisinger/fftranslator

Is Cunning Linguist - Translate locally Safe?

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Cunning Linguist - Translate locally requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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