If you select the 'Translate current page' menu, you can translate the entire web page. Clicking on the translation button and you will get a drop down menu, In order to use the translation feature in Slimjet, you need first add the 'Translate' button onto the navigation toolbar by customizing the toolbar. What's more, you can translate only a selected word or piece of text in the current web page between two specified languages. In comparison, Slimjet lets you translate any page between any two languages. It basically only lets you translate a full page from a foreign language into your current UI language. However, it's limited and not really flexible. And since it uses Google Translate's API, the same privacy policies apply to the add-on's usage.There is already translation feature available in the Chrome browser. The add-on is quite good, except for the annoying error message. This seems to work better, at least for me.ĭownload Simple Translate for Chrome and Firefox. I disabled the translation button, and the 'translate in text field' options, and set the waiting time to 1000 (milliseconds).

That means, if you quickly select text multiple times, a number of queries are sent to the API, which blocks the query sender (your IP address) from using the service for a short while. The developer mentions that this behavior is by design. This page in particular sheds more light on it.Īpparently, Simple Translate sends a request to the Google Translator API whenever text is selected, to auto-detect the language of the selected text. The GitHub issues page for the extension reveals that this is a very old issue, dating back to 2018. You can still use Google Translate normally during the 'waiting time'. So, I decided to simply wait it out, and it worked. I tried this, but the error seems to recur, it mostly happened after I used it to translate a few phrases. To fix this, the extension recommends you to increase the 'waiting time to translate' from the add-on's options. If you use it t translate too many phrases quickly, Simple Translate throws up an error message that says 'Error: Service usage limit reached. You can customize the add-on's behaviorÂ and itsÂ interface (font,Â display position, height, width of the pop-up, etc).

The add-on's settings has a blacklist option 'URL list to disable translation', use it to enter the addresses of the web pages that you don't want to be translated. You can toggle the button at the top to disable translation on the current website. If the selected text is already in your primary language, the addon will translate it to your second language. Setting your second target language in the Simple Translate options page can be useful.

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