Firefox Is Stealing Another Chrome Feature

Mozilla Firefox is one of the few non-chromium browsers that exist these days, and one of the strongest browser options remains. But that does not mean that it is not allowed to take a page or two of chrome from time to time. Now he has just received a good enough useful functionality that you might like.

Firefox has just obtained the Google Lens support during its last night construction, marking the second time in recent memory, it flies one of the chrome features. Now when you right -click an image, you will see an option to search for this image using Google Lens. This allows you to search for what you see about this image. On your phone, you can point your camera on things to search for it, but you can also search for images using your browser, which is sometimes just as useful. It can identify plants and animals, translate text in real time, find products that you see in images or in image fragments, and even help homework by solving mathematical problems. Instead of simply looking for the whole image, you can select a section – like a shirt that someone wears to search for this online shirt – or you can select text in an image. You can get information on landmarks, copy text from a document or find items similar to clothing you like.

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This feature has been integrated into Chrome for a while, and it is cool to see Firefox add it despite not having an obligation – it is not a browser based on chrome, so it does not need to do everything that Chrome does. As in the Chrome implementation, right -click on an image and click “Search for the image with Google Lens” will open a side panel with visual correspondence, related content and the possibility of extracting image text. Note, this will only work as long as you have defined Google as default search engine – the tray of any other search engine will deactivate this integration, which is good, because I do not think you want a Google feature to have pushed your throat if you actively avoid Google in the first place.

In the case of Chrome, it also allows you to activate it via the address bar or by right -clicking on the page and selecting “Search with Google Lens”. It is not clear if the functionality also works like this on Firefox, or if it only allows you to use it via an image. In both cases, you probably use it mainly for images. Although if it is a partial implementation, it is also extremely useful in cases like when a website does not let you copy text, so I would like this to work exactly the same way as it does on Chrome.

The functionality is now live from the last night update, and it will eventually land for stable users in the coming weeks or months.

Source: Firefox