Former Google Dictionary and Google Translate
NOTICE: Version 5.11 and previous version stop working as the results from Wiktionary have been formatted differently. Please upgrade to the latest version.
>>> If you dislike the default setting that shows the popup when you select or double-click a word, you can try the "hover to translate" option that only shows the popup when you move the mouse over the word with a Ctrl(+Shift/Alt) key pressed. You only need to uncheck the "Enable select-to-translate" option and the "Enable double-click-to-translate" option, and check the "Enable Ctrl-hover-to-translate" option (see the Options section below). I would recommend the Ctrl+Shift+hover-to-translate combination with the "Aggressive mode" enabled. With these options, you can either hover the word (even in a button or a link) then press Ctrl+Shift to see the definition of the word, or select/highlight a phrase then press Ctrl+Shift to see the definition of the selected words/phrase.
The extension brings two functionalities to your Firefox browser:
- in-line translation/dictionary look-up of words;
- translation of the whole page.
In-line Dictionary
Double-click or highlight a word, and a little pop-up will show the definition of it in your language.
Alternatively, you can move your mouse over the word that you want to translate while pressing down the Ctrl key.
Near the bottom of the little pop-up, there is a "more" link which will lead you to the full definition at Wiktionary web site.
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To close the little pop-up, just click on any blank place on the browser, or press the Esc button. The little pop-up must be closed before you can activate another in-line translation. After version 2.2, you have the option to close the pop-up by moving the mouse, but you need to enable it first (see the Options section below).
Two other ways of in-line dictionary lookup is added in version 2.1.
In version 2.1, a Dictionary button (see the left side) is added into the toolbar palette. You can drag it into your toolbar. To use it, select/highlight the word, phrase or sentence you want to look up and click on the Dictionary button. See this and this posts for how to add a button from the palette into your toolbar.In version 2.1, you can select/highlight the word, phrase or sentence you want to look up and right click on it to see a new item Wiktionary in the context menu. Click on it to look up what you select/highlight.
In version 5.8, three icons are added in the definition popup. They bring some new features to you:
Select or highlight some text on the popup, and click this icon to copy it into the clipboard.
Select or highlight a word on the popup, and click this icon to get it translated.
Go to the online help (this page).
Page Translation
In version 1.7, a Google Translate button is added into the toolbar palette. You can drag it into your toolbar to enable 1-click whole page translation into your own language. See this and this posts for how to add a button from the palette into your toolbar.
Alternatively, you can click on the Tools menu from the menu bar, and select Translate Page.
Options
Open the Options dialog to setup the extension.
- Select your language
If your language is not in the list, read the section "Why isn't my language on the list".
- Enable select-to-translate
If it is checked, you can double-click any word or highlight a phrase to see the in-line translation.
- Enable double-click-to-translate (since version 1.5)
If it is checked, you can double-click any word to see the in-line translation. With this new option, you can uncheck the above Enable select-to-translate option which may cause inconvenience when you want to copy & paste some text from the web page.
- Enable Ctrl-hover-to-translate
If it is checked, you can press down the Ctrl key and move your mouse over the word to view the in-line translation of it.
Since version 2.3, you can choose to use Ctrl+Shift or Ctrl+Alt with hover-over to popup the in-line dictionary.
Since version 2.3, you can choose to use Ctrl+Shift or Ctrl+Alt with hover-over to popup the in-line dictionary.
- Aggressive mode
If it is not checked, you must press down the Ctrl key first and keep it down when you move the mouse to translate a word. If you want to know the technical detail, read the section "What is aggressive mode".
- Disable language auto-detection. I only look up words in ... (since version 1.6) (removed in version 5.x)
This option is for the inline dictionary. If it is checked, the language auto-detection function is disabled. Therefore, you need to choose which language the original words that you look up are in. Google's language auto-detection is convenient, but not perfect. Many complaints have been received saying that the languages were wrongly detected. Even Google is sometimes not so confident about its language detection result. So this option is added to give a better experience to those who only read articles in one specific language.
- Move mouse away to close the popup (since version 2.2)
This option is for the inline
dictionary. If it is checked, you can close the popup by moving the
mouse away so that you do not need to click somewhere like before. This
option is disable by default so the existing users do not get surprised
after the upgrade.
- Always use secure Wiktionary (since version 5.10)
This option is for the inline
dictionary. If it is checked, it always use the secure link to the
Wiktionary. This option helps to avoid the intervention from another
extension HTTP Everywhere (see the Q&A section for details).
- Translate page in a new tab (since version 5.10)
This option is for the whole page translation function. If it is checked, a new tab is opened for translating the page. The page's link is sent to translate.google.com instead of using the Google Translate Element. This option helps to limit the intervention from another extension NoScript.
In version 2.0, a new tab Style is added to the Options dialog. The user can apply his/her own style to the Google Dictionary pop-up.
- Enable my style
If it is checked, the CSS code in the following input box will be applied to the extension to let user override the default style. There are some samples of the CSS code can be found here. They can be simply copied and pasted into the input box.
Download
Download the extension from the official Mozilla Add-ons web site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/239624/
Q&A
It doesn't work. Why?
Wiktionary and Google Translate extension can be intervened by other extensions. Those extensions either block the requests being sent out or alter the requests. So far, users have discover that Flashblock, NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere can break Wiktionary and Google Translate.
To make Wiktionary and Google Translate works with Flashblock, please read this post.
For NoScript which blocks the page translation function, there is no simple solution yet. Google Translate needs to run JavaScript on the page you want to translate to translate it. So you have to temporary enable scripts on the page you want to translate before you run the Translate Page function. Another solution is added in version 5.10 -- in the Options dialog, you can check the option *Translate page in a new tab (only for unsecured URI)* to get the page translated on Google Translate web site. Therefore you only need to add translate.google.com to NoScript's white list.
HTTPS Everywhere alerts your request to Wiktionary. The rule in concern is named Wikipedia in its default ruleset. To use our extension, you will need to disable the rule named Wikipedia. If you do not want to disable that rule, you can use a workaround we added in version 5.10 -- in the Options dialog, check the option *Always use secure Wiktionary*. That will always send queries to Wiktionary via HTTPS protocol so HTTPS Everywhere will not try to alter your requests. But since all the sound files are transferred by HTTP protocol only, they will still be broken by HTTPS Everywhere. Therefore, you will not see voice pronunciation icons if HTTPS Everywhere is enabled for Wikipedia.
Another reason that Translate Page function does not work is that Google Translate does not support the language you are using. You can temporary switch your language to a popular one, such as English or French, to see whether it is because of the language.
There may be more extensions that break our extension. To find out, you can disable the extensions you have installed one by one. The most suspicious ones are those that block or alter things.
What is aggressive mode?
In aggressive mode, the extension keeps on capturing the words your mouse hovering over at any time. The words are captured but they are not sent out to Google until you press the Ctrl key. Whenever you press the Ctrl key, the word under the mouse will get translated. It adds some overhead but usually does not matter because your browser is idle while you are reading the page.
However, if you do not like the idea of keeping the browser active, you can uncheck it. Then the mouse only captures words when you are pressing down the Ctrl key.
Why isn't my language on the list?
A language must be supported by Google Translate in order to be added to our list.
We haven't tested our extension with all the languages yet. If your language is supported by Google Translate, it will be added soon.
Why does the "more" link take me to Google Dictionary sometimes but Google Translate at other times?
lookup from language XX to your language, the "more" link will take you to Google Translate.
Why is the "more" link disabled sometimes?
As answered in the previous question, the "more" link could sometimes take you to Google Translate. The problem is that the URL translate.google.com does not supported encryption (https). If you are visiting an encrypted web page, we do not want to send anything on your encrypted page to a plain/unencrypted URL. Therefore, we disable the link to Google Translate web site.
Why does the inline popup show only "??" ?
It means Google Translate has problems when doing the translation. The most possible reason is that Google Translate does not support a translation from language XX to your language. The other common reason is that sometimes Google Translate responds too slowly and our request gets timeout.
Why doesn't the inline popup show the meaning of the word, but only repeat the original word?
The inline popup shows whatever Google Translate and Google Dictionary return. The most common reason is that Google Translate does not find the meaning of that word in their database, so it returns the original word as the result. I also found that sometime Google Translate wrongly detect the language of that word, so it cannot translate it.
Whole page translation is blocked by Flashblock extension.
That is because Flashblock extension blocks some Google online services. You need to add google.com or the regional Google URL to the white list of Flashblock. There is nothing our extension can do because it is outside of its scope. See the reason and detail in this post.
Why isn't Firefox 3.5 supported?
In some versions of Firefoxsurport Firefox 3.5 soon, I do not plan to add extra fix for it.
When realizing the above requirement, you can make a little change yourself to get it installed. Just change the value of "em:minVersion" from 3.6 to 3.5 in the file install.rdf.
New features.
Any suggestions and requests are welcome. If the feature you request does not show up in the new release, please be patient. I will add new features according to their priorities. In the meantime, bug-fixes are my number one priority.
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148 comments:
I want this tool have the function: when I move the mouse out, tooltip auto close.
I miss understood this plugin and thought that its like google dictionary in the google chrome.
If it is so then its not showing the meaning.
Anyway you can help us by giving the functionality of google dicitonary.
Yes, it is like google dictionary in the google chrome, with more features (hover over to translate, detail meaning on google.com/dictionary, etc.).
If you have problems using it, I can help if you can tell what language you are using, and which word on which URL you are selecting to translate.
Hi Zen
Thanks for your reply. I have posted my previous comment. My problem in using this is here -> http://stock1.pho.to/data2/f/5/3/f5364764-1f72-8194-4998-9816a11ab11b.jpg . I dont see the meaning. I see only the word. I have selected option as English and my firefox is 3.6.12. Can i know why is not showing. I wanted to use it like Google dictionary. Using Windows XP 32 bit in Dell laptop.
You were expecting an English-English dictionary, which was not supported by the earlier versions of this extension. Please try the new version 1.3. It added this feature.
Please add Arabic language support.
Moin moin,
is there a way to configure the font color. I think it's some FF default color what's used, but they looks ugly on my system. Something like #CCCCCC at the time ;( (on a yellow background!)
If only the font size could be bigger. But thanks for the useful extension anyway.
Arabic and many other languages are added in version 1.4.
Other requested features (moving the mouse to close inline popup, font color, font size, etc.) are very good suggestions, but not first priority in the current stage. Please wait.
Now i am satisfied with Firefox, i have moved from firefox to chrome only because of this Google dictionary extension.
Thank you for the same.
Well in chrome there is another one http://max99x.com/chrome-extensions/dictionary-lookup which i found has options.
Anyway thanks a lot.
Some problem i am finding while using the Google dictionary part http://www.codecoax.com/grerc/ enter the passage number 65, try to get the meaning of "social". While using this i dont see the meaning, if i click on more it goes to google translate not dictionary. Specifically on this i have seen the problem. I dont want to use translate at all for English.
Thank you very much
About the translation of word "social":
As you can see, Google Translate detect this word as Portuguese. And the best it can do is translating it into English "social". :)
The accuracy of Google's language detection is out of our control. But we would find a way to workaround it in the future version.
Could you add the Polish language please?
That works quite long time with the Google Translator.
Cheers...
I can't read the tooltip because it has white text. I couldn't find a way to define the colors.
where is hindi ??
i want to translate from english to hindi !! how can i do this ?
Sorry that I have updated the images of the description too early. But Hindi was added with many other languages in version 1.4.
Version 1.4 is waiting for review so you do not see it on the detail description page. If you click on "View all versions" at the bottom, you can see the "Not Reviewed" version 1.4 -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/239624/versions/
Great extension. Google dictionary lookup in Chrome was one of the reason why I kept on using Chrome. Would it be possible to disable lookup on select and only keep ctrl-hover behavior? Or better still, ctrl-select would be awesome. Thanks again.
Min, you can disable lookup on select by going to the extension's options and unchecking "Enable select-to-translate".
1: feature request: When I disable select-to-translate, could I please then have an option on the pop-up menu instead? Sorry, that's not very clear :-) What I want to do is: select some text, then right-click on it, and choose “translate” on the popup menu. That would make this even more useful.
2: here's a suggestion about how to fix the incorrect language detection: call the translate API first to detect the language for the whole page. You probably want to store that in a variable, of course, so you don't do it all the time (just once per page). Then when you're translating something, try to detect the language for the word or selection; if the language detected is different from the page language, then translate and display both. Alternatively (or in addition to that), you may want to use HTML "lang" attributes in surrounding elements.
Polish and many other languages are added in version 1.4.1. The issue of white color text should have been fixed in this version too.
Hi It's a amazing extensions
Thank u very much.
and I have a problem.
how can I set up the font it displayed in the pop-up windows?
thank u very much.
Lalo, thanks for the support and the suggestion.
Sofring, there is no way to change the font currently. I have plans to add features related to the style, but they may come several releases later.
Hello Zen
The tool is quite good when used as a translation.
The dictionary part it works very infrequently as it detects as a different language and then try to translate in English.
Why don't you keep an option[in preference] so that your software works as only dictionary or only translate or both[by default]. Well then it would help a lot of people to use it like a Google chrome dictionary.
Any way quite a good idea and tool.
Hello Zen
I am sorry for my previous comment, in your latest version i found the solution :)
Congrats and keep doing things differently :).
Hello
Still in your new version you used the word "googling"!!!.
There is no such word in any dictionary. Please put searching translating etc or any other..
Hi Zen
Highly impressive the version 1.5 :).
Does solve almost all the problems.
Keep your work ....
Translate page option doesn't work if Flashblock addon is installed and enabled. Not sure witch extension's fault this is...
Hi,I'm very appreciated that, you guys fix the bug which I left in the comments several lines before this.
now It can display the color of fonts right.
but i have another problem :(,when I use it to translate English to Chinese(s) I always have this:
Word:?? more
www.toptip.ca
the translated words became "??", but before the extension updated, it goes well.
Thank U veeeeery much!
Hi, Sofring, one of the reason may be that sometimes the Google Translate URL is too slow. The request gets timeout. Try it some other time and if you still have the same problem, tell me the URL and the word you were looking up.
@Zen:You are right!.the translate_url had timeout.I use the foxyproxy to get over the GFW and everything's ok.May I ask which urls are reached when I double click a word and the popup-window showing the answer?I think may be the urls are blocked by the GFW if you know what it is :). and I can define a url_pattern of foxyproxy and let the extension go well. THANK YOU!
Sofring, the extension uses Google API at ajax.googleapis.com. Good luck.
thanks for this tool.
Now one needs to go to tools menu to trasnlate the whole page. How about some shortcut for it? New button, or menu under right click of the mouse?
Zen:
Here is a feature request. Can you find some to hide the toolbar on page translations. I go to great lengths to preserve screen real estate for dynamic information. Having it shrink to a tab on the left side should do the trick.
Here's another thing I've noticed. This is a great tool for Twitter, almost made for it. It's the easiest way to view tweets in many languages on the same page. It reaks down language barriers without even having to click.
In New Twitter, the translation bar covers Twitters control/search bar. In both Twitters when you click 'More' the extended page below is not longer translated. Can you have the extension detect the 'More' button in Original Twitter and the automatic 'More' in New Twitter to cleanly translate the following pages?
Fix those things, even if it requires special treatment, and you will be viewed as a god. Do you realize how many people use Twitter? Fame and (maybe...) fortune aside, a tool like this blows borders, languages and cultural differences down like a main battle tank. Except for the problems with Twitter, (which is where this extension really rocks) I just spent an amazing hour traveling the world.
Can you make the page translation bar follow links. Great for reading newspapers in another language. It also doesn't appear to work on more than one tab at once.
Have I given you enough work here? You're really on to something . Run with it.
tinker
it would be very helpful if options are added to adjust the font size and background colors. it's very important for us disabled people. for example, white text on black work best to increase visibility. otherwise, a wonderful add-on, very handy... i just hope these much needed features are implemented soon.
How about a feature to let me get a definition of a word in a definition. e.g. I look up "handmaiden" and the definition uses the word "subservient" and now I want to know the definition for that word. Well, currently, the easiest way to do it is probably to click your "more" link (which is great) and then double-click the word "subservient" to get the tool-tip. Well, it would be really handy to be able to double-click a word in the tool-tip and have another tool-tip pop-up over the previous one or something.
It should be helpful if there is a bit of an extension that the user can choose between his native language.
Say I'm a Belgian speaking a couple of languages.
At one time I want the page translated to English, another time to Dutch. Dutch is my native language, but not seldom is that translation worse than a translation to English.
I speak English rather fluently, but my partner doesn't, and so on.
So it should be nice if the user somehow can set a couple of "to" languages where he can chose from, without being forced to use the workaround via the add-on itself.
please support adjustment options font properties.
DQ, in the next release 2.0, you can set the font size. Please read this post. Version 2.0 is already submitted to addons.mozilla.org. It is waiting for the review to be made public.
Thanks for fantastic extension. Pure simple and not annoying. I'm just curious if there is any possibility to extend the way how to activate the extension.
The only way that is working for me is "ctrl hover to translate" - the others are annoying in my style of work. But I use ctrl + tap on touchpad to open link in new tab.
The problem is that on touchpad my tap is usually handled like hover and I get new tab and translated word. I guess that "ctrl+shift+hover" would work for me, but that could different among the others.
BigCharlie, you can try Ctrl+hover with non-aggressive mode (uncheck Aggressive mode option) in the current version. That means you have to press down Ctrl key first and move the mouse over the word you are interested in. It is less convenient, but less annoying.
Thats exactly the way I use it. The problem is when I want to open new link in a new tab. I hold CTRL and click on the link (on touchpad). Usually (not always, let's say about 70%) link is opened in a new tab and at the same time link is translated, because my click on touchpad is recognized as movement.
I need some help. I installed the extension and added the icon to the toolbar. I go to a page (example: http://fylkesarkiv.no/) and click on the icon and nothing gets translated. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
I think you should add new option: hide translation popup on mouse move. At this moment user should click somewhere at the page to hide popup, this is annoying when translating a lot of words.
Thanks for addon, it's great!
Hi Zen
i'm on FF 3.6.13. your extension is conflicting with "FlashBlock 1.5.1.4.2"
Translation for a word or a sentence is ok but when try to translate a web (click on button) its not translating the web page.
Plz Help
BigCharlie, in the new version, you can highlight the word(s) and right click to look them up via the context menu. I am also thinking about your suggestion of "ctrl-shift-hover".
I am working on the requested feature of "hide translation popup on mouse move". It is a tricky one. I may add it as optional.
"ctrl-shift-hover" option would be great. About the context menu - not bad, bud too many clicks to get the results for me :-)
Anyway I've to say that this addon is making me addicted. So simple - so powerful. Great job.
Translation for webpage is still not working in new update .. Dictionary is working fine ..
when I disable "Flashblock 1.5.14" add-one, Translation start working.. kindly address this issue as soon as possible ..
Regards
Ch, you need to add google.com to the white list of the Flashblock extension. See the reason and detail in this post.
hi zen
is there any way to hide "Google Dictionary" text in right click context menu ?
i.e
/* Google Dictionary */
#context-google-dictionary {
display: none !important;
}
Bell, not in the current version yet. We could add it in a future release.
BigCharlie, Ctrl-Shift-hover option is added in version 2.3. Please give it a try.
Hi,
any advice how I can uninstall or deactivate this yellow "In-line Dictionary" box? I know how to make it disappear, but it is getting on my nerves.
Thanks a lot!
works great, thanks
Conny, you can follow this link to uninstall or disable an extension:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Uninstalling%20add-ons
It is perfect if in-line translation can also show the Web definitions from wikipedia(and a link to that wikipedia page), which show in the bottom of Google dictionary page.
Hi! Thanks for this tool.
I've tried to use -moz-border-radius in custom styles. But box become too ugly because of shadows of outer box.
Is exist some way to change outer box?
Please make it possible to translate words in at least tow languages in the same time.
thanks
Shahin
Can you add an option to change the icons to a light color because they are almost invisible on custom themes with a dark background on toolbar, thank you for a very nice add on...it's great.
Serg, in the new version 2.5, you can customize the border with round corners. The shadow is added by the OS(Windows). You can remove it by configuring the Windows Appearance. See the details in the style templates post.
Hello, I tried:
1)move mouse away:
I started at the text of the first comment on the left side:
For the word 'I' I get the translation 'in' which is in some languages correct, but not here.
a) I would appreciate, if there would be an option to have two buttons in the pop-up, one button for a drop down menu for the language to translate from and one button for a drop down menu for the language to translate to.
Next I move the mouse to word 'tool' and nothing happens, the pop up does not disappear and the new translation for 'tool' does not apear. If I have the pop up for 'tool' then I can move the mouse to the words 'mouse', 'out', 'tooltip','auto','close','have', 'the' 'function','said' and 'Anonymous' and nothing happens.
b) I would appreciate, if there would be an option to have a translation already by just hovering the mouse over the word only without any key usuage and while the mouse is hovering the next word the content of the pop up changes to the next translation.
c) I would appreciate, if there would be an option to have a translation already by just highlighting a part of any text or word only without any click and getting the translation of what is highlifgted.
If I click, the context menu covers the tranlation.
d)I would appreciate, if there would be an option to have another toolbar button to enable and disable the above function discribed in b) and c).
e)I would appreciate, if there would be an option to have the buttons on the status bar instead of having them on the tool bar, because there is more space on the status bar in my case.
Maybe the button is not necessary, but some people might like it.
and i would like the possibility to use this addon WITHOUT allowing javascript on the particular site.
Hey Zen,
I've got a suggestion for the Google Dictionary extension:
I disable the extension when I visit certain sites. How about allowing us to "blacklist" sites that we don't want the extension to be used on.
It would save me disabling the extension everytime I read these sites.
Thanks for hearing me!
Adapt this add-on to multilingual webpage browsing. As a bilingual in English and French, I encounter the problem that I double-click on a french word to get its definition, and the dictionary returns the English definition of the word, as it detects it as an English word. The problem lies in the automatic detection. In my example, the English dictionary has priory over the French one when the word exists in both dictionaries. Could a button be added in the definition box allowing the user to manually override the language detected?
Hi. I want to port this extension for Instantbird (www.instantbird.com). Where can i find source code for this extension?
Stephane, with the latest version, you can disable the auto-detection in the Options dialogue. See the "Options" section of this online help.
Zen, i tried to port addon to Instantbird (added App ID etc) but it doesn't work. And i don't know XUL(and my JS knowledge is too small) to fix it. Could you port it? I don't think it will need much work...
Here is link to Instantbird port howto with app ID https://wiki.instantbird.org/Instantbird:Porting_Firefox_Extensions
Could you please add an option to display the meanings in 2 languages? it would be highly useful for those who's English is not their first language. That way we can read the meaning in English and in our own language, both showing in the popup under each other.
Or at least make a key to press t show the other selected language. Please?
My wishlist :D
Major:
1.Automatic translation of page,so they don't have to click the "Gtranlate" icon every time.
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Minor:
2.More than 1 definition.
3.Pronunciation for words
If you add these features in the near future,I'll be very grateful as my parents will finally be able to surf the English inter-webs.
Thx, man, this addon, it is very cool!
Great Addon my only pet peeve about it is for the Google dictionary listing in the context menu that cases the menu to increase it's size causing me to open a new window instead of a new tab. I wish that it was just greyed out when it does not apply and normal when it does apply instead of appearing after it can be used, which is usually just as I am clicking on the open tab in the context menu due to the lag. This happens when right-clicking either on whitespace or a word/link. I am assuming that maybe there was a bug that caused an error if a user clicked on whitespace and chose the dictionary. maybe not but if u do change it that may be an area to test after the code is written.
Hey, can you add an option to save all the words that I looked up? That would be very useful for learning vocables!
Bye, Pluck
Hello. I really like this add-on for Fire Fox. I have one suggestion though. You have a Translate Page option in the integrated pop-up menu but no Translate Selection option. The problem with the "Enable select-to-translate" in the options dialog is that sometimes I want to copy/paste and the translate dialog pops up. I also double click words/sentences/paragraphs to copy/past and the dialog would show up. I would like to see Translate Selection in the right-click interactive menu. Thanks for the good work on this.
Bret
This is the best translate extention I ever use!
Thanks you!
hi Zen, the google dictionary is no longer available. now everytime i try to look up a word it doens't give the definition but instead repeats the word
No longer available :O
That's not good.
I'm dead without this extension. :(
No longer available :O
That's not good, no.
I'm seriously dead without this extension. :(
After the discontinuity of dictionary.google.com, inline translation is no longer working. Could you release a fix please? Thanks.
Google dictionary is no longer available on http://dictionary.google.com
Google Dictionary is gone. Can you integrate other dictionary service to this extension? It's a good extension. Hope you can fix the issue as soon as possible.
This addon stopped working when google dictionary went away. The addon needs to be updated to use the "Define " syntax that google supports.
This tool needs to be updated since Google has abandoned Google Dictionary.
this very useful extension no longer shows definitions! Google Dictionary has been relocated to Google's search results, so the extension needs to be pointed to the new syntax. please do this soon!
************** NOTE *************
Since Google shut down the Google Dictionary service, part of the function of this extension has stopped working. We will look for and test other alternatives. Please be patient. In the meantime, you can still use the translation feature of the extension.
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this is not working with any sites other than facebook and mozilla addon sites. the behaviour is same like the old google dictionary addon. not working even thru the context menu wikitionary. on clicking the more option it goes to the site and works. i mean its not working thru the inline popup option except for those site i mentioned above.
Hello,
and thanks for useful addon (at least for me :). I've got a question, though.
When I invoke Google translation bar, I can't select another language on it. Drop down menu contains always only one language (for me it's Czech).
Sometimes, machine tranlation is incomprehensible and I'd like to choose English as a target language "on the spot". Is it possible with current version?
hi
the link "more" should lead to translate.google.com instead is taking me to
http://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki
?!?!?!?!
i do not want to go there, much rather to google translator!!!
thx for amazing adds-on (as long as it works :) )
Firefox 7, Ubuntu Linux 10.4, add-on updated.
Even though I have (and have had always) the option not to use auto detect and only look up words in Spanish this does not work. Many words exist in different languages with different meanings, I only read Spanish articles. As it is the add-on is completely useless to me because most of the words I click register and Esperanto or Romanian or Catalan etc. etc. and when I check in a dictionary like Spanishdict.com afterwards I find the Spanish word is completely different.
It also keeps looking up words in English, and that's not ticked either.
Thanks for this add on, I loved it, it helped me learn so so so much Spanish, even though it hasn't worked at all recently.
Strange. I can still access Google Dictionary from Chrome. It uses URL like this:
http://www.google.com/search?source=dict-chrome-ex&defl=en&hl=en&q=features&tbo=1&tbs=dfn:1
Unfortunately I'm having the following problem:
Returns only ?? when I set the language to Finnish (Yes, Finnish is supported by google). Works normally when set English to English.
Cheers
it doesn't show the chinese translation in chinese words. it shows "??" symbols. :(
Notice
Google Translate API has been officially deprecated (https://code.google.com/apis/errors/).
As a result, you will see "??" if you are not using English dictionary. We are looking for a solution. If you have any suggestions, don't hesitate to let us know.
The English dictionary works as before, as it uses Wiktionary.
In the new version, both Traditional and Simplified Chinese lookup goes to the same page:
http://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/word
Traditional Chinese should be:
http://zh.wiktionary.org/zh-hant/word
And Simplified:
http://zh.wiktionary.org/zh-hans/word
Any news on the ??? problem? It's a shame google did whatever it did that broke this add-on, it was very very good.
Any new on the ??? problem? It's a shame to see such a great add-on broken by something google did, it was really good when it worked.
Hello!
Your Addon has a problem with translations from "Any Language" -> German
Seems that a lot of words didn't show up or don't translate. Is it permanent error? May be connection "lag" with google dictionary? I am talking about Rus->Eng translation.
P.s. I like this useful plugin! Thank you!
The "??" problem has been fixed in the latest 4.1 version. You can download it from the "versions" link in the very beginning of this post. If you prefer to wait for the review of the Mozilla team, please be patient. I have no control of that.
yeap, there are no "??" any more. but it is still NOT Transaltion. I need english to chinese.but it shows always in english...:(
Hi manni. Have you selected your language in the Options dialog?
3x zen, i got it. :)
awesome bro, the wikipedia dictionary is good.
//here i think the link for the new google dictionary.
[code]example search for 'american'
https://www.google.com/search?source=dict-chrome-ex&defl=en&hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=dfn:1&q=AMERICAN[/code]
it is appreciated if u help to put into the extension. i would love the google dics option if possible
thanks :)
I'm trying to translate this korean page http://cafe.daum.net/pot-tool using the menu Tools>Translate page, with no success. My language is Portuguese, it is the language selected in the Firefox Extension Options.
- Windows XP Home Edition, 2002 Version, Service Pack 3
- Firefox 9.0.1
- Wiktionary and Google Translate 4.3
I filed this bug for Venkman before installing the translator, and now the same thing is happening to the Wiktionary button on a separate profile.
Ubuntu 11.10 with Xubuntu session (xubuntu-desktop 2.138.1)
Firefox 9.0.1
Wiktionary and Google Translate 4.3
Steps to Reproduce: Install, and place the button on the toolbar.
Doesn't look up definition when HTTPS-Everywhere extension is enabled; it redirects to wikipedia HTTPS connection. When i disable wikipedia redirection, then your extension works.
Hi,
When using this addon, I'm having a problem which I can not understand. If I lookup the word "language" in Wiktionary on the page https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-dictionary-and-google-t/, it works, but if I lookup the same word on the page http://www.ampl.com/, I do not get any definition and the spinner does not stop. Any idea why that might happen?
Hi H. Turgut Uyar, I tried your web site and it worked. Maybe it was your network connection problem.
The hover-to-translate should translate selected phrases as well without having to turn on annoying select-to-translate function
eXtreme, that is a very good suggestion. Remind me if you don't see it in the next two releases.
I know this tool is helpful in many issues, but sometimes it really annoys me specially when I wanna copy or paste some content.
Can you please inform me, how I can uninstall this from my firefox. I don't find it on the list of extensions.
Hasmat, sorry to know that it is not helpful to you. Have you tried to deselect the select-to-translate and double-click-to-translate options? That would prevent the popup when you copy&paste words from the page. If you still want to uninstall it, you can find it in the Extensions list with the name of Wiktionary and Google Translate or Google Dictionary and Google Translate (depending on which version you are using). Its icon is a big blue G.
Wiktionary is AMAZING!!!
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for your work!!
Thanks a lot for a great Addon...
Please add indic Languages like Gujarati and Urdu.
Thses both languages are supported by Google translator
Pleaseeeee Add Urdu and Gujarati plzz
Thanks
Great extension.
Just to say thanks - one of few add-ons without which I cant use Internet, read or write online. Thanks for excellent work !
For some reasons, translation by button and right click doesn't work anymore. I don't have any other add ons installed besides this one.
Can you give details? Does the popup show up? Do you see the spinner? What platform/version/language are you using? etc.
feature suggestion:
Add an option to existing select-to-translate: only translate when a key, for example CTRL, is hold.
I know the "Wiktionary" toolbar icon is easy enough to use, but adding another option doesn't hurt.
BTW, you can make the Wiktionary icon appear on the Navigation Bar by default so that more users will realize its existence.
The idea is close to what eXtreme suggested except that he/she was asking for hover-to-translate option. With the latest version, by disabling select-to-translate and enabling hover-to-translate, you can select a word/phrase/text, and press the Ctrl to get it translate.
I'm the anon above.
Thank you Zen. need to use hover-to-translate with aggressive mode for it to work. Can you make it work without hovering over the text? i mean selecting the phrase while holding ctrl, or selecting then press ctrl to translate, without hovering over.
Hello Great Developer,
---OS type and version: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.
---The version of the browser: Firefox 14.0.1.
---The version of the extension: Wiktionary and Google Translate 5.10.
---The steps to reproduce the bug: see my explanation.
My apologies for reposting but I completely forgot to select first the Firefox add-ons, then the Wiktionary and Google Translate add-on!
Here is an issue that seems to have appeared only recently. As, if I remember well, at a previous version of this add-on, it used to translate the particular web page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ perfectly fine using the Google button.
At this page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ (in Hebrew), I can try to press the Google button to translate it and it simply does not translate it into English!!
Same problem if I do Tools, Translate.
Same problem if I take a link from this web page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ and try to see if the Google Translate button would work fine through a link from this particular page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ . It does not!
On the other hand, if I go to Google translate at http://translate.google.com/ and put the web page address http://www.haaretz.co.il/ in the field for that, it does translate the page just fine!!
Very weird!!
More, if I try to use the Google Translate button with another page in Hebrew, for instance at http://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-8,00.html . Then pressing the Google Translate button works perfectly fine!!
If you do not mind, thanks to figure out why your add-on Google Translate button does not work on this particular web page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/
So many thanks for your add-on. It is amazing.
Hello Great Developer,
---OS type and version: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.
---The version of the browser: Firefox 14.0.1.
---The version of the extension: Wiktionary and Google Translate 5.10.
---The steps to reproduce the bug: see my explanation.
My apologies for reposting but I completely forgot to select first the Firefox add-ons, then the Wiktionary and Google Translate add-on!
A important improvement. Thanks. Rated 5 out of 5 stars
by MichaelIsGreat on July 14, 2012 • permalink
To the developer Zen:
1) First improvement to add.
When I press the Google button that I placed at the top right of my Firefox browser window (using Customize), when I translate a page in a foreign language, it shows:
Google Translate Translated to: English Show original Options
Could you change this statement to the following one:
Google Translate Translated to: English Into: (the foreign language should be stated here) Show original Options
As you can see, I have just added: "Into: (the foreign language should be stated here)".
Many times, I have no clues whatsoever which language it is translated from and that bothers me a lot, as I speak several languages and at least I want to educate myself further at recognizing foreign languages that I do not know.
2) Sometimes, there is just a few sentences in a foreign language in a page that is mainly in English. I select the sentences, move the mouse cursor over them, and click Ctrl+Alt but it does not give me the translation for these few sentences in a foreign language.
Thanks a lot to consider adding this important detail 1) at the next update.
For 2), thanks to have a look at it.
So many thanks for your add-on. It is amazing.
many thanks from Iran ,guys.
MichaelIsGreat,
Thanks for your support and suggestions. 1) This extension is an interface that relays the service of Wiktionary and Google Translate. The Google Translate bar is built by Google Translate so the extension has no control of how it is like. 2) To let Page Translation work on more pages, you can enable the *Translate page in a new tab* option. 3) If some sentences are not translated, that may be because neither Wiktionary nor Google Translate can translate them.
Hello Zen,
---OS type and version: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.
---The version of the browser: Firefox 14.0.1.
---The version of the extension: Wiktionary and Google Translate 5.10.
---The steps to reproduce the bug: see my explanation.
You seem to have completely forgotten to answer to my first posting that I reproduce again for you below.
In particular, why the Google Translate button does NOT work on this particular web page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ . Despite the fact that when I go to Google translate at http://translate.google.com/ and put the web page address http://www.haaretz.co.il/ in the field for that, it does translate the page just fine!! Completely illogical!!!
Thanks to answer this particular point.
Again, thanks for your great add-on.
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Hello Great Developer,
---OS type and version: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.
---The version of the browser: Firefox 14.0.1.
---The version of the extension: Wiktionary and Google Translate 5.10.
---The steps to reproduce the bug: see my explanation.
My apologies for reposting but I completely forgot to select first the Firefox add-ons, then the Wiktionary and Google Translate add-on!
Here is an issue that seems to have appeared only recently. As, if I remember well, at a previous version of this add-on, it used to translate the particular web page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ perfectly fine using the Google button.
At this page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ (in Hebrew), I can try to press the Google button to translate it and it simply does not translate it into English!!
Same problem if I do Tools, Translate.
Same problem if I take a link from this web page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ and try to see if the Google Translate button would work fine through a link from this particular page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ . It does not!
On the other hand, if I go to Google translate at http://translate.google.com/ and put the web page address http://www.haaretz.co.il/ in the field for that, it does translate the page just fine!!
Very weird!!
More, if I try to use the Google Translate button with another page in Hebrew, for instance at http://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-8,00.html . Then pressing the Google Translate button works perfectly fine!!
If you do not mind, thanks to figure out why your add-on Google Translate button does not work on this particular web page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/
So many thanks for your add-on. It is amazing.
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MichaelIsGreat, in short, the solution to your question is: you can enable the *Translate page in a new tab* option (Open the Options dialog and you can see this new option). If you are interested in the detail/reason, read on -- by default, our extension use the Google Translate Element for translating the whole page. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on all pages, especially those with frames. It is possible that it ever worked on a web site before but stopped working on it after the web site got updated using frames. It is not the upgrade of our extension breaking it. It is the web site's updates that breaks it. Google Translate Element is a Google's product so we cannot provide fixes to that. However, we have a workaround which I mentioned in the beginning of this answer. It uses Google Translate web site for the page translation instead. Although it does not look as pretty, it should work for you.
Hello Zen,
Thanks for the extra explanations.
You are right, I tried your idea of using "enable the *Translate page in a new tab* option" and it is now able to translate perfectly fine the particular web page at http://www.haaretz.co.il/ for which I had problems. That should be sufficient for me.
Thanks for your great add-on. I love using it.
Wow this addon is great.
A small issue I've encountered:
I'm using the tooltip to translate words from English to Hebrew, which works great, mainly as a learning tool.
I also using Google translate service to translate full pages in German to English, as German is translated to English better than to Hebrew (surely with technical text).
The issue is that when setting your addon to translate to Hebrew (with English as secondary) and translating full page it translated to Hebrew and I can't switch the language on the Google translate Gui (Hebrew is the only one on the list).
I'm guessing you can't change the way Google translate works, but you can add an option for using different languages in tooltip mode and full page mode.
Thanks for the addon, please keep it alive, it's great and much better than using than heavy and slow Babylon.
Keep up the great work, success.
saudações made in Brazil.
Hello,
first thanks a lot for your unvaluable tool.
Just a little bug in the translations in French language: all the "'" appear like "'". (But not on the Google Translation page when clicking on the translation in your pop-up.)
Thanks.
Philippe
Stopped working for no apparent reason ! Today I can't see any input in popup window ?! The popup doesnt show anything anymore, other than the word(s) you selected - selection of the word brings popup but without input from Wiktionary or Google dictionary !!!
Some other user also left same complaint on extension page at the Mozila Add-on website.
Any suggestions ?
Santa, please update to the latest version 5.12 which has fixed the recent issue.
This is a great plugin! I just have one minor comment. The mouseover for 'deliberated' tells me that it's the past form of the verb 'deliberate', but then only the adjective meanings of 'deliberate' are listed.
deliberated
• (past of: deliberate)
▾▾▾ deliberate ▾▾▾
• Done on purpose; intentional.
• Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining.
• Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.
• Not hasty or sudden; slow.
The adds-on seems not funciton well.
Translation exceeds the whole webpage margin and only small part of whole translation can be availble if taskbar is placed on right side of screen. what we hope for is the same as feature as the following picture shows.
http://bbs.kafan.cn/thread-1277542-1-1.html
I suggest to add an additional option to make the full pop-up box displayed above the selected/double-clicked word (now the only choice is beneath the word). That is what Google Dictionary (by Google) in Google Chrome does by default (though it doesn't give another option)! In fact, if users have another pop-up extension like Diigo, which also has a pop-up triggered by double-click, more than one pop-up items will overlap at the same time. Hope you can provide this option, and hope it will not be hard to implement. Big thanks!
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Is there a workaround / explanation available why translation doesn't work when editing files located in Google Drive?
Example: I am having some document saved in Google Drive. When clicking them, Firefox is started and will allow to view an edit the file. However the translation does not come up, no matter what options I select for the add on.
Besides that, great and lovely tool.
Regards, Andreas
This won't translate phrases anymore. It can translate one word if you double click it. However if you select the whole sentence it shows loading but no result. I've tried this with a few sites and it does the same thing. I click on the magnify glass icon and it takes me to wiktionary which is why i think it won't work. It should be requesting translation from google translate.
1. Select-to-translate makes copying text impossible. I may close the translation popup but it pops up again if I right-click to copy text, disabling "copy" in the context menu. Not sure why it disables text copying.
2. Translating whole page is locked to the main language selected in options. There is a dropdown menu to select a language, but it has only one language. I usually need translate to English with whole pages because Google doesn't translate longer phrases well to my native language. It would be nice to have a REAL language dropdown menu there.
Also, the full-page translation button should indicate which plugin does the translation. Since it fails on many occasions I use other Google Translate plugins and it took time figuring out why there's a limited-function Google translate button in my toolbar and why it is locked to one language/which addon it belongs to. I thought it had something to do with my Google site settings and spent ages hunting it down.
3. Often fails to get a translation even though Google has it and other addons CAN translate the section. Particularly happens if I choose non-English (Estonian here) as main language and check the "search English too" checkbox. The popup just stays empty.
4. Breaks on some longer passages and translates only the beginning. First sentence usually, it seems.
Thanks for this great extension indeed.
But I've some little strange issue with it, here's it's description :
First off my settings are :
Select your language : Arabic-العربية
(If your language is not English) Look up in English too.(Checked)
So when I use it to translate a word i.e. in the Italian language, it used to give me the matches in both English and Arabic 'At any website' the problem here is it does not work the same way on both Twitter and Facebook, when I try to translate some Italian word it just gives me it's English match :(
And I want it to give the Arabic word match too like it does in the other website pages.
So plz help me with this little problem asap.
If there's something tricky should be done with the settings PLZ tell me asap & Here's my mail address
Maarvinoo@Gmail.com
Thanks for your awesome work.
Where is the story of the search words?
Wonderful addon!
After I read what aggressive mode is, my question is, Can't it really translate the word under the cursor when you hold it on this word, without having to click any hot key, like say adding the option "none" among the suggested hot keys in "enable hover-to-translate with key"?
Hi Nilionova, You must use one of the hot-keys combinations to use the hover-to-translate feature.
Hello the developer of Wiktionary and Google Translate,
1) Could you allow the user to select a few words or a sentence or even a paragraph and using Ctrl+Alt (the option I use to start Google Translate), I would then be able to have the full translation displayed in a yellow small window, without having to open a new tab to see the translation of this longer sentence or paragraph.
So far, I can only managed to translate a single word at a time using Ctrl+Alt to trigger Google Translate and that is not enough at all.
2) Google Translate (using the button) does not translate the comments that appear on a page.
Check with this Norwegian page for instance at http://www.vg.no/sport/artikkel.php?artid=10116148
3) Because Google Translate has been abandoned by Google, you might want to give a choice to the user of this add-on to use a different Translate tool. Maybe a similar tool than Google Translate is also usable with Bing Translate or Babylon Translate?
Thanks to consider these suggestions.
Many thanks to the developer of Wiktionary and Google Translate.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I assume you are using the latest version 6.3? Are you not translating from/to English?
It is a surprise to know that Google Translation is abandoned. We will consider your suggestion of alternatives.
This tool is useful.
There is a problem in traditional Chinese version. Some Chinese is in simplified Chinese but not traditional Chinese.
Can you fix it?
That is because the result returned from wiktionary has the simplified and tranditional Chinese characters mixed. The current version of our extension does not detect them. In a future release, we may consider adding the detection.
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