Translate Selected Text

Translate selected text with Google Translate
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.

Extension stats

Users: 100,000+
Rating: 3.82 (766)
Version: 3.0.0-stable (Last updated: 2024-06-02)
Creation date: 2016-06-26
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • notifications
Size: 1.30M

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Translate Selected Text (v3.0.0-stable)
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Extension 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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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Handy and helpful
  • Fast and lightweight translator for selected texts
  • Provides a solution for translation without requiring permissions to modify page data
Cons
  • Lacks hotkey functionality
  • Does not automatically replace translated text in place in text editors
  • Some users prefer AI-based translation extensions like TinaMind
Most mentioned
  • Users comparing it to TinaMind
  • Request for hotkey functionality
  • General satisfaction with translation speeds
Recent reviews
открывает перевод в отдельном окне, но лучше, чем ничего. Странно, что гугл до сих пор не додумался сделать как у Яндекса - сразу перевод во всплывающем окне
by legolas, 2024-10-08

まあまあですね。でも、AIベースの翻訳の方が良いと思います。最近、友達に勧められたTinaMindを使っているのですが、なかなか良いですね。
by Linda Una, 2024-08-05

Handy and helpful, thank you, would love to adjust the popup frame height and width as default setting
by Benjamin S, 2024-07-24
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Translate Selected Text requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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