HowToGeek: “Mozilla’s Firefox is one of the few non-Chromium browsers that exist these days, and it remains one of the most solid browser options out there. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not allowed to take a page or two from Chrome every so often. Now, it has just got a pretty useful Google feature that you might like. Firefox has just got Google Lens support on its latest Nightly build, marking the second time in recent memory it steals one of Chrome’s features. Now, when you right-click on an image, you’ll see an option to search that image using Google Lens. This allows you to search for what you see from that image. On your phone, you can point your camera at stuff to search 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 you see in images or in fragments of images, and even help with homework by solving math problems. Instead of just searching for the whole image, you can select a section of it—like a shirt someone’s wearing to search for that shirt online—or you can select text within an image. You can get information about landmarks, copy text from a document, or find similar items to a piece of clothing you like…”

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