Request for a translate page add-on
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Request for a translate page add-on
I understand this has already been suggested but it has been kind of thrown under the rug. If anyone could work on a translate page add-on that would be much appreciated.
Last edited by Moonchild on 2021-07-15, 20:41, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: ...Because the original topic title was just terrible.
Reason: ...Because the original topic title was just terrible.
Re: I understand this has already been suggested
Translation extensions are inevitably going to be service extensions. Unless you also provide the service, this usually means making use of an API you don't own or operate (and often aren't licensed to use on an unknown number of client machines). So it's not so much "thrown under the rug" as it is simply neither feasible nor legal to do in most cases.
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Re: I understand this has already been suggested
One has to be really committed to provide and deal with all the hangups of service extensions. We are still trying to get people to fork otherwise working extensions and having a hell of a time with that. Hell we are having a hard time getting people to fork EXISTING PALE MOON EXTENSIONS that have been abandoned or otherwise abused.
There is even a subset of users who for some reason don't know forks exists and some of those who didn't even know we HAD an Add-ons Site.
Also see: http://developer.palemoon.org/docs/phoenix-extensions/
There is even a subset of users who for some reason don't know forks exists and some of those who didn't even know we HAD an Add-ons Site.
Also see: http://developer.palemoon.org/docs/phoenix-extensions/
Re: I understand this has already been suggested
These are the ones for whom PM is nothing more than a placeholder to run old FF extensions that they've ported over with their old profile from back in the day when PM-FF profile switching was possible, and who have probably complained the loudest.New Tobin Paradigm wrote: ↑2021-06-01, 03:55There is even a subset of users who for some reason don't know forks exists and some of those who didn't even know we HAD an Add-ons Site.
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Re: I understand this has already been suggested
The extension GeoFlag by RealityRipple is a port of Flagfox for Pale Moon.
https://realityripple.com/Software/Mozilla-Extensions/GeoFlag/
Right-clicking the flag icon opens a menu containing "Automatic translation to your language" - well, it forwards the current url to Google Translate, i.e. no translation of local pages or ones behind paywalls, but this usually is great enough. Remember to click "translate..." at the Google Translate page, otherwise it does not start translating.
https://realityripple.com/Software/Mozilla-Extensions/GeoFlag/
Right-clicking the flag icon opens a menu containing "Automatic translation to your language" - well, it forwards the current url to Google Translate, i.e. no translation of local pages or ones behind paywalls, but this usually is great enough. Remember to click "translate..." at the Google Translate page, otherwise it does not start translating.
Re: I understand this has already been suggested
There is a source-open translator that one could host for oneself: Libre Translate. Its quality is below DeepL’s, which I use myself, but if somebody would like to create a translating extension without licencing concerns, I believe this might somehow enable him.
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Re: I understand this has already been suggested
As long as they are willing to run their own API service on a server, of course... So they won't just be making and extension they would also be maintaining the back-end service for it.TheRealMaestro wrote: ↑2021-07-14, 17:08if somebody would like to create a translating extension without licencing concerns, I believe this might somehow enable him.
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Re: I understand this has already been suggested
In addition to above, google translate bookmarklet may do the trick.
Re: Request for a translate page add-on
You could do it indirectly by first installing Greasemonkey / Guerilla Scripting then look here, there seems to be Google and deepl, perhaps try some other search terms too:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=translation
I did use a translation add on a few years ago for Firefox that worked but then stopped as somehow it had used up the creators translation word limit when more people started using it, I think that's the kind of problem there might be.
Yandex translate is pretty useful too, I think it's an especially good option when dealing with Russian, it ought to be.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=translation
I did use a translation add on a few years ago for Firefox that worked but then stopped as somehow it had used up the creators translation word limit when more people started using it, I think that's the kind of problem there might be.
Yandex translate is pretty useful too, I think it's an especially good option when dealing with Russian, it ought to be.
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been...
Re: Request for a translate page add-on
I'm using caa:addon/s3google-translator . It can translate a phrase on a page (select - pop-up with translate, read aloud, copy) and has a pencil-like icon for translating a page.
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Re: Request for a translate page add-on
Both an extension that is violating author's rights and doesn't even work in current Pale Moon because it's a legacy Firefox add-on. Why do you even bring it up?
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Re: Request for a translate page add-on
It's Classic Add-ons Archive, so I assume that it's OK.
I'm using v5.35 in PM 29.2.1 and it's working with no warnings; I've not modified it at all.
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Re: Request for a translate page add-on
Here: https://realityripple.com/Software/Mozilla-Extensions/BabbleOn/
30 very short lines of code. Detect if a document has <html lang="">, compare to navigator.languages, redirect to Google Translated version if it doesn't match.
No blacklist, no language selection, no configuration of any sort.
30 very short lines of code. Detect if a document has <html lang="">, compare to navigator.languages, redirect to Google Translated version if it doesn't match.
No blacklist, no language selection, no configuration of any sort.