Translator Add-on for Firefox

It was only a matter of time until someone implemented a translator add-on for Mozilla Firefox. The add-on currently supports the following languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Arabic. You may not translate between all languages though, for example you may only translate from Simplified Chinese to English but not to other languages.

The add-on is configured to use Google Translation as the default Translation service. You may change this behavior if you prefer Yahoo Babelfish, PROMPT, Altavista, FreeTranslation or IM Translator. The add-on places an icon in the status bar. Right-Clicking that icon opens a menu with all the available translation options and a link to the preferences.

The add-on can be configured to translate the website in the current tab, a new window, a new tab or the sidebar. You may also select to add a quick translation option when the icon in the status bar is left clicked. You have to select the languages for quick translation by yourself.

The translator add-on is an excellent time saver if you have been using translation services before. Sure, you do not necessarily need the add-on to translate the websites. You could also do it manually by visiting the translation service and pasting the url to translate into the form field.

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4 Responses to “Translator Add-on for Firefox”

1. Max says:

   December 26, 2006 at 4:21 pm

   gTranslate has been out since July ‘05

   https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/918/history/

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2. waldwicht says:

   December 26, 2006 at 9:16 pm

   gTranslate is very useful. Been using this addon nearly every day, to translate English/Spanish words (I’m German). I give this extension a try tomorrow.

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3. Gilad says:

   January 7, 2008 at 11:41 pm

   Another good add-on is the Quick Translation (qtl)

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4. Roman ShaRP says:

   February 4, 2008 at 12:00 pm

   Hello!
   How about testing “Quick TransLation” extension?

   https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/5641

   It works rather like vocabulary, but for me it is even better.

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