"An error occurred while loading the translation engine" with Firefox and Linux

[theyoungstone]

Describe the bug

When I want to translate with the extension, I have the error "Une erreur s'est produite lors du chargement du moteur de traduction" (An error occurred while loading the translation engine)

Firefox 114.0.1 (64 bits), Linux Ubuntu 23.04 up to date

To Reproduce

Install the extension and try to translate, a site or simply a character chain

Expected behavior

Translation

Screenshots

Additional context

No response

Firefox Browser version

114.0.1 (64 bits)

Processor information

AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor

OS version

Ubuntu 23.04 - Linux antec 6.2.0-20-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr 6 07:48:48 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

System type

64-bit

Firefox Translation Extension version

1.3.2buildid20230220.141944

Webpage on which issue was observed

All

Language of the webpage

English

Translating to (language)

French

Console logs from Web Developer Tools

Using fallback gemm implementation bergamot-translator-worker.js:2965:17
failed to asynchronously prepare wasm: CompileError: wasm validation error: at offset 32288: unrecognized opcode: fd c bergamot-translator-worker.js:526:11
Error loading wasm module. translationWorker.js:73:29
Aborted(CompileError: wasm validation error: at offset 32288: unrecognized opcode: fd c) bergamot-translator-worker.js:445:9
RuntimeError: Aborted(CompileError: wasm validation error: at offset 32288: unrecognized opcode: fd c). Build with -s ASSERTIONS=1 for more info. bergamot-translator-worker.js:449:14

[cadeyrn]

SSE 4.1 is a strict requirement for Firefox Translations. According to my short Google search your CPU is too old and does not support SSE 4.1. You can follow BZ-1811908 to see if/once the requirement will be changed for the native integration in Firefox.

[theyoungstone]

Thanks for the answer.