# Adaptive Translation

> Translate selected text, full pages, captions, images, and PDFs inline with your chosen provider.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/adaptive-translation](https://chrome-stats.com/d/adaptive-translation)

## Overview

- **ID:** `adaptive-translation`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** LOVAHE
- **Category:** language-support
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 3.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-02
- **First published:** 2026-04-29
- **Size:** 3.60 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/adaptive-translation/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/LOVAHE/Immersive-Translation](https://github.com/LOVAHE/Immersive-Translation)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/adaptive-translation/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/adaptive-translation/privacy/)

## Description

Adaptive Translation adds inline translation tools to Firefox.

It can translate selected text, translate full pages paragraph by paragraph, show dictionary bubbles for single words, translate YouTube captions, and translate image or PDF content with OCR or vision-capable providers.

Users can choose their own translation provider, including OpenAI, Gemini, Google Translate, Azure Translator, and DeepL. API keys and preferences are configured in the options page.

Key features:
- Inline page translation below original text
- Selection translation and dictionary mode
- Custom translation bubble styles
- YouTube bilingual caption overlay
- Image and PDF OCR translation
- Prompt editor for LLM translation and dictionary prompts
- Interface localization for English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Spanish

## Rankings

- #54,523 — Overall
- #116 — ocr
- #147 — translations

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `scripting`
- `activeTab`
- `tabs`

### Host permissions

- `https://translation.googleapis.com/*`
- `https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com/*`
- `https://api.deepl.com/*`
- `https://api-free.deepl.com/*`
- `https://api.openai.com/*`
- `https://*/v1/*`
- `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/adaptive-translation)