Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Adding a Google Translation Shortcut to Firefox

If you often translate bits and pieces using Google Translator, here’s one way to quickly access it:

• go to http://translate.google.com/translate_t#auto|en| and bookmark the page in Firefox
• open the bookmark settings by right-clicking the bookmark and picking Properties
• in the keyword field, enter the word translate
• in the location field, append %s to the URL
• hit the Save Changes button.

Now if you find a bit you want to translate, you can copy it, then type translate followed by a blank into the address bar, paste the text, and hit return. The text “translate” is your custom keyword as you provided it, and the “%s” tells Firefox that you want to pass a parameter which will be appended to the URL.

There are surely many other ways to access translation tools in the browser – what is your preferred approach?

[Hat tip to Bret Taylor!]

Adding a Google Translati ... by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (8)

>> More posts

Advertisement