# Simple Google Translate

> A very simple add-on that opens the English Google Translate for the current page

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/simple-google-translate](https://chrome-stats.com/d/simple-google-translate)

## Overview

- **ID:** `simple-google-translate`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gorjan Jovanovski
- **Category:** language-support,other
- **Daily users:** 556
- **Weekly downloads:** 5
- **Rating:** 3.32 / 5 (22 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-11-19
- **Size:** 27 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/simple-google-translate/)

## Description

Simple Google Translate is a minimalist Chrome extension designed to streamline your web translation experience. With a single click, it opens the English version of Google Translate for the current webpage, allowing you to quickly and effortlessly translate content without any complicated setups. Ideal for users who want a fast and simple tool to understand foreign language pages directly within their browser, this add-on enhances browsing efficiency by integrating the trusted Google Translate service seamlessly. No extra steps or configurations needed—just straightforward, instant translation to English.

## Rankings

- #4,679 — Overall
- #197 — Language Support
- #16 — google translate
- #33 — simple
- #63 — translate
- #123 — google

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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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## Review summary

Simple Google Translate is praised for its effective and user-friendly page translation, significantly saving users time. It translates entire websites smoothly, including sub-pages, after the homepage is translated. However, users desire a feature to translate selected text directly, dislike the new tab opening for translations, and want more options to select target languages freely.

### Pros

- Effectively translates web pages, fulfilling its primary purpose.
- User-friendly and extremely useful for those needing translations.
- Once the homepage is translated, sub-pages also get translated seamlessly.
- Saves users significant time when browsing foreign language sites.

### Cons

- Lack of option to automatically translate with selected text; no text translation feature.
- Opens translated pages in a new tab, which some users find inconvenient.
- Limited support for choosing target languages; users want more language selection options.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/simple-google-translate)