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Adding a Google Translation Shortcut to Firefox  (View post)

Matt [PersonRank 0]

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
15 years ago11,153 views

The following bookmarklet works great.

If you select text and hit it, it goes to a google translate page with just that text. Otherwise it translates the entire page you are on.

javascript:var%20t=((window.getSelection&&window.getSelection())||(document.getSelection&&document.getSelection())||(document.selection%20&&document.selection.createRange&&document.selection.createRange().text));var%20e=(document.charset||document.characterSet);if(t!=''){location.href='http: //translate.google.com/translate_t?text='+t+'&hl=en&tbb=1&ie='+e;}else{location.href='http: //translate.google.com/translate?u='+escape(location.href)+'&hl=en&tbb=1&ie='+e;};

[added blank between "http:" and "//" in two locations to prevent forum autolinking... -Philipp]

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

This is... the "official" bookmarklet ;)
http://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en

Jonathan [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

This works just as well in Chrome, I'm pretty sure.

Splasho [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I love Ubiquity [ http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/], I just select text on a website hit control space and type "translate" or "translate to French". That displays the translation and if I press enter the text on the page is replaced by the translation, ready for printing etc.

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

"Official" bookmarklet have all the languages expect "AUTO"
I think its bad idea to keep those many bookmarklet to translate.

So I changed one lang pair AUTO|EN and it works for me for any language page...

Moody Loner [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

Splasho beat me to the punch, Ubiquity is the future of semantics on the web

你好 [PersonRank 1]

15 years ago #

喂,你好吗?
Hello,how are you?

great post! I love chinese!

你好 [PersonRank 1]

15 years ago #

Google and Kingsoft released a free translation software called “Google Kingsoft PowerWord", which is better can fetch the translation from the web automatically, is better for chinese user like me.

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