Translate Selected Text
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
Translate selected text with Google Translate
This extension allows you to translate the text selection using Google Translate whenever you want.
When the extension is installed select some text from a website, right click and select to which language you want to translate the selected text.
** FAQ: **
Q: Why choose this extension and not another one?
A: I designed this extension so that it didn't prompt the user for permissions. This way the final user knows that the extension doesn't have the permission to access the content of web pages and monitor the user activity on the Internet (other extensions of this type prompt for this permission). This extension has access only to the content of the selected text when the user clicks the extension context menu and it is used to create a Google Translate app with the text autocompleted.
You can configure from the options page which languages you want to show in the context menu.
** Open Source **
This extension is now open sourced! You can check out the source code, contribute, and fill in bugs in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext
** Bugs **
Please, report any bugs or feature suggestions here: https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext/issues
** Note **
Google Translate is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.
** Beta version**
As this extension has so many users I've decided to upload a Beta version of the extension to the Chrome Web Store so I can test it before uploading any update to the stable version! This way I can make sure the stable version of the extension is 100% bug-free.
If you want to test the bleeding edge of this extension before everybody else, join the Google Group and download the extension (there may be bugs, you've been warned):
* Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gtranslator-beta
* Translate Selected Text (Beta): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/translate-selected-text-b/pckjhlclhnnhdadoockkhgfkceeljnkg
** Changelog **
Changelog available in the following website: https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext/wiki/Changelog
** Credits **
https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext/wiki/Credits
Latest reviews
- Nhan Nguyen
- This extension is great for my daily working and surfing!
- Benjamin S
- Handy and helpful, thank you, would love to adjust the popup frame height and width as default setting
- Ella Sunny
- Not bad, But I using TinaMind instead, which is an AI-based translation extension and even more powerful
- Lecko Mio
- This is nice and at least for me the nearest solution I was looking for. I was actually looking for a translation extension that automatically translates a selected text and replace-in-place in text editors of web pages. This is not working with this plugin unfortunately and so far no one seems to produced something like this. It would help if this plugin could add a hotkey
- cristian alexandru provincialul
- exceptional!! :))
- Laptev walrus
- Please add hotkey functionality
- Ali Bakhtafarid
- Excellent!
- Ali Bakhtafarid
- Excellent!
- Günther Bosch
- Hi, Translate and Paste in one step would be great. Or at least Translate and Copy to Clipboard. Would make it easier to translate many text snippets when they are separated by images, table cells, ...
- Günther Bosch
- Hi, Translate and Paste in one step would be great. Or at least Translate and Copy to Clipboard. Would make it easier to translate many text snippets when they are separated by images, table cells, ...
- David N.
- Justo lo que buscaba, un traductor que no pida permiso para leer y modificar los datos de las páginas.
- M. A.A.
- Używam już od dłuższego czasu ,wg. mnie to najlepszy szybki tłumacz zaznaczonych tekstów . Jest szybki i lekki i działa też na stronach które normalnie są z działania takich tłumaczy wyłączone np. w tym sklepie.
- Jakob
- One has to wade through such garbage to occasionally chance upon something worth while, and this is the best application of its kind.
- Jakob
- One has to wade through such garbage to occasionally chance upon something worth while, and this is the best application of its kind.
- Dmitrij Nikonov
- спасибо
- Roger Campanera
- A customizable shortcut would make this extension complete.
- Степан Константинов
- Идеально выполняет свою работу. Разрабу спасибо!
- Checker Pig
- Noch nicht mal die Einstellungen funktionieren.
- Jose L. Castillo Olivera
- Solo es un acceso directo a Google Traductor, que mal! no trabajaron nada en esta extensión
- Gino Saurré T.
- La idea es buena, pero en la pestaña abierta con la traduccion, sale el lenguaje detectado (por ejemplo aleman) y la traducción es al mismo lenguale (ej. aleman) lo que hace que tengamos que hacer clic en el lenguaje objetivo (en mi caso español)... podría tener un lenguaje target por defecto (ej. el lenguaje de chrome por defecto)
- Fernando Quiñonez
- eselete
- Tj Gonz West
- Just need the translation on the page, no popup or tab. Its possible in Edge, Im sure it can be done!
- Tj Gonz West
- Just need the translation on the page, no popup or tab. Its possible in Edge, Im sure it can be done!
- Niraj Sanghvi
- Thank you for making this privacy-focused extension versus the other translate extensions that are available. It works great and I wish more of the negative reviewers here understood that compromises were made deliberately to achieve the goal of requiring the minimum amount of permissions, which I really appreciate!
- Niraj Sanghvi
- Thank you for making this privacy-focused extension versus the other translate extensions that are available. It works great and I wish more of the negative reviewers here understood that compromises were made deliberately to achieve the goal of requiring the minimum amount of permissions, which I really appreciate!
- Petter Nerman
- Desperately needs a "translate text" option to be used in conjunction with the extension shortcuts at chrome://extensions/shortcuts, because as it stands now, you're forced to right click and scroll down to the translate option via the pop-up menu every time you want to translate something which simply isn't practical at all. With the addition I am suggesting you'd be able to translate at the press of a button. Not sure why this hasn't been added as it's an obvious improvement.
- Petter Nerman
- Desperately needs a "translate text" option to be used in conjunction with the extension shortcuts at chrome://extensions/shortcuts, because as it stands now, you're forced to right click and scroll down to the translate option via the pop-up menu every time you want to translate something which simply isn't practical at all. With the addition I am suggesting you'd be able to translate at the press of a button. Not sure why this hasn't been added as it's an obvious improvement.
- Muhammad Taqawi
- Nice and simple extension
- Muhammad Taqawi
- Nice and simple extension
- Ajay Meena
- good yess
- Ajay Meena
- good yess
- Roman
- the best of translation. very convinient, when translation opens in new small window
- Roman
- the best of translation. very convinient, when translation opens in new small window
- Abed Asadi
- Very good this program
- Abed Asadi
- Very good this program
- Vedran Icanovic
- Way to go if you want to bypass Google and third parties to spy on everything you visit on Web.
- Vedran Icanovic
- Way to go if you want to bypass Google and third parties to spy on everything you visit on Web.
- Tony Nguyen
- It works great! Thanks. It'd be great if it could preserve newlines. I copy text with newlines and they are removed in the Google Translate window. Also, despite the option, it always opens in a new tab. What's the difference between this extension and Translate Selected 2, which has the same icon as well. Thanks.
- Tony Nguyen
- It works great! Thanks. It'd be great if it could preserve newlines. I copy text with newlines and they are removed in the Google Translate window. Also, despite the option, it always opens in a new tab. What's the difference between this extension and Translate Selected 2, which has the same icon as well. Thanks.
- Adrian Victor
- AWENSOME!!!!!!!!!!!
- Adrian Victor
- AWENSOME!!!!!!!!!!!
- qwe qwe
- love
- qwe qwe
- love
- Felice
- Does exactly what I want. Copies the text and opens a google auto-translate tab with it. Some people want it to happen on the page itself, but that requires letting an extension read and modify any page you read, which is a scary thing to ask me for. Great compromise.
- Felice
- Does exactly what I want. Copies the text and opens a google auto-translate tab with it. Some people want it to happen on the page itself, but that requires letting an extension read and modify any page you read, which is a scary thing to ask me for. Great compromise.
- Alex Nits
- Ok! 5+! :)
- Alex Nits
- Ok! 5+! :)
- Dali Dali
- I mean maan I don't need to translate a lot of text. Usually just 1-4 words.
- Dali Dali
- I mean maan I don't need to translate a lot of text. Usually just 1-4 words.
- JP W
- Redirecting you to Google Translate is just pure lazy. I'll find a better extension that actually shows you the translation as a modal/the actual content overwritten. Disappointed.