# Text Link & Google Translate

> Non linked URL open with double click. and Google translate.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `text-link-google-translate`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** nepon
- **Category:** search-tools,appearance
- **Daily users:** 7,545
- **Weekly downloads:** 34
- **Rating:** 4.54 / 5 (24 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.5.3
- **Last updated:** 2020-12-10
- **First published:** 2017-09-16
- **Size:** 20 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/text-link-google-translate/)

## Description

The Text Link & Google Translate extension enhances your browsing experience by allowing you to open non-linked URLs simply by double-clicking them. No more copying and pasting! You can also open URLs from the context menu after selecting them. Additionally, the extension integrates Google Translate directly into your toolbar, enabling quick page translations. Special features include fixing the source language when translating certain sites like addons.mozilla.org, and translating selected text via the context menu, seamlessly replacing or appending translations in input fields. While some pages restrict script execution—limiting double-click functionality—this extension remains a powerful tool for efficient browsing and multilingual support.

## Rankings

- #905 — Overall
- #95 — Search Tools
- #140 — Appearance
- #23 — google
- #23 — google keep
- #24 — google docs

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `*://*.google.com/*`
- `https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?*`
- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `webNavigation`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users appreciate the add-on's user-friendly interface, stable performance, and efficient translation features including inline translation and link recognition in non-standard pages. It is valued for its simplicity, safety, and multi-language usability. However, some issues are commonly noted: loss of link functionality after translation, limited URL recognition especially with non-ASCII characters, combined functionality lacking modularity, and occasional translation performance delays on slower machines.

### Pros

- Very user-friendly and stable in operation.
- Convenient one-click option to translate entire web pages.
- Can translate selected text inline while preserving original text access via popup.
- Effectively recognizes text links even in non-standard web pages.
- Considered clean, safe, and lightweight without unnecessary scripts.

### Cons

- Translated text with links loses original link functionality.
- Only recognizes URLs starting with protocols like 'www', failing with URLs containing non-alphanumeric characters (e.g., Japanese URLs).
- Does not separate Text Link and Google Translate into different add-ons, limiting customization for users.
- Translation speed can be slow on low-performance computers, and cancelling mid-translation can cause input issues.

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