One of the new features of Google Chrome 5 is a Google Translate bar that pops up automatically if a website uses a different language from the user’s system language. Not all Chrome uses like the new feature in the latest development releases of the web browser which becomes apparent if you read the comments in our review of the feature (read Google Translate integrated in Google Chrome 5)
Most commenters find it annoying as it will automatically pop up with no option to make it a manual process which many would prefer. Other Chrome users prefer more configuration options that would allow them to disable the translation for some languages and enable it to translate automatically for others.
The Firefox add-on gTranslator is basically a port of the Google Chrome 5 feature with the difference that the translation has to be initiated manually by the user.
The Firefox add-on places an icon in the status bar of the Internet browser after installation. Clicking that status bar icon will display the Google Translate Bar that resembles the bar found in Google Chrome 5.
The user can select the language that the website should get translated to in the bar before clicking on the Translate link to translate it without reload. This has to be done for every page the user visits on that website. The Google Chrome translate bar contains an option to always translate that language when it is encountered which can be helpful for users who have to visit foreign language websites regularly.
Configuration options to automatically translate languages are not offered by gTranslator yet. The add-on has been added recently to the Firefox add-on repository and it might be that the developer is already at work to add the feature to the add-on.
GTranslator can be downloaded from the official Mozilla Firefox website.
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Why is the main Ghacks.net page not updating? Its seems the RSS Feed is 4 days ahead of the last article showing on the frontpage!
It is up to date for me. Have you tried clearing the cache?
I am using Firefox 3.5.7 and yes my cache was cleared! I just checked in Opera 10.50 Beta and everything was fine, checked with QTWeb 3.3 & Firefox 3.6 and the same as Firefox 3.5.7.
Options?
No explanations on Mozilla addons page.
No options in the addon.
No right click options appear when selecting page.
No special to be found in “customize” section of browser.
How does it work?
You click on the icon if you want a page translated. That opens the translation bar which can then be used to translate the page.
What icon?
Searched high and low… ahhhhh! it’s there!
Just in the lower right hand corner!
You have to know!
If you’re a webmaster and would prefer your web page not be translated by google translate, just insert the following tag into your page:
meta name=google value=notranslate
Yo man! Google translatttor is the shiiz
I laave trslating with gooogle
sory for english bad?
I live ugana