Translate Selected Text

Translate Selected Text

Translate selected text with Google Translate

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What is Translate Selected Text?
"Translate Selected Text" is a Chrome extension offering a seamless translation experience. It enables users to quickly translate any selected text on web pages using Google Translate. User-friendly, the extension requires no permissions for installation, so you, as the user, can retain full control of your personal data. The language options are customizable. Moreover, it is open source, allowing for contributions from community, and uses a separate beta version to test stability before updates.
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Stats
Users: 100,000+
Rating: 3.82 (765)
Version: 2.0.1-stable (Last updated: 2022-11-21)
Creation date: 2016-06-26
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • notifications
Size: 1.22M
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Translate Selected Text (v2.0.1-stable)
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Summary
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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

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Pros
  • Fast and lightweight
  • Works on pages where other translators don't
  • Privacy-focused extension
Cons
  • Lacks customizable shortcut options
  • No 'translate and paste' or 'translate and copy to clipboard' feature
  • Some users experience issues with settings
Most mentioned
  • Needs customizable shortcut options
  • Desire for 'translate and paste' or 'translate and copy to clipboard' feature
  • Works on pages where other translators don't
  • Privacy-focused extension
Recent reviews
我用TinaMind了
by Terry Ira Terry Ira, 2024-05-13

It's okay. I using TinaMind now. It's based on GPT-4 translation extension and it's free
by Edwin Long Edwin Long, 2024-05-11

One has to wade through such garbage to occasionally chance upon something worth while, and this is the best application of its kind.
by Jakob Jakob, 2023-07-05
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Safety
Risk impact

Translate Selected Text is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Translate Selected Text has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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