Localize Mozilla. If you want to make Firefox available in your language, join a global community of localizers from all over the world, track progress of various Mozilla localization projects, and more, Pontoon is there for you. By default, FoxLingo will enable you to translate pages to English, French, Spanish and Latin American Spanish, and the display flags will be the U.S., French and Spanish flags instead of the U.K., Canadian and Mexican flags.
How to install Google or Bing Translate to your browser?
ICANN Language Services does not endorse and cannot provide support for any of the automatic translation tools available on the internet. Nevertheless, we realize there are regions and languages which ICANN does not currently support for translation, thus we deemed appropriate to facilitate the attached instructions hoping this will help ICANN’s outreach efforts outside ICANN’s set of languages (United Nations + Portuguese) enabling access for the community. Translation results from these tools are of an unknown quality and users of these tools assume all liability associated with their use.
Firefox Translate In English
ICANN Language Services provides full support in English, Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish; partial translations and interpretation in Portuguese and translation support of select materials for regions where we have a hub and/or engagement offices.
Chrome
If you use Chrome, adding Google Translate extension can be done with the following instructions.
NOTE: You may need to upgrade your Chrome Browser to the latest version for these installation instructions.
By default, Firefox does not come with translation features. However, you can easily add such a feature by installing an add-on of your choice.
1. Open your browser, then go to “Settings” via the drop-down main menu in the upper right-hand corner of your browser.
To translate a page in Firefox to a different language, youll need to download a third-party extension first. Once installed, simply highlight the text you want to translate and right-click to pull up a menu with two options: 1) Takes to you translate.google.com with your selected text automatically entered into the translation field; or 2) Listen to audio pronunciation of the phrase (powered by Google Text-to-Speech), which is helpful if you’re trying to learn a new language.
2. Once the “Settings” tab loads, click on “Extensions” on the left-hand side of the page.
3. After that page loads, navigate to the bottom of the page and click on “Get more extensions.”
4. The Chrome Store will load in a separate tab. Go to the search bar at the top-left corner and type in “Google translate” and press ENTER/RETURN.
5. The search results will show Google Translate at the top of the search results under “Extensions” list.
6. Click on the blue button that says ADD TO CHROME. You must confirm if you want to install it, and then it will be added instantly to your browser.
7. You can confirm Google Translate was added successfully by checking Extensions in the Chrome More Tools menu.
A) Open Extensions menu, in Chrome More Tools menu
B) This will show all installed Chrome Extensions. You should see that Google Translate has been Enabled.
C) Later, if you wish to turn off Google Translate, you can uncheck the Enabled check-box on the Chrome Extensions menu.
8. To use Google Translate, click the Google Translate ICON in the upper-rightcorner. To translate all the text elements on the current page, click TRANSLATE THIS PAGE.
9. If a website is displayed in a different language than your default language, you will be presented with an option to translate this page.
Firefox
If you use Firefox, adding the Google Translate extension can be done with the following instructions.
1. Open Firefox and then visit Mozilla’s official download page for the extension https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/google-translator-for-firefox/
2. Once you arrive, click on the green “Add to Firefox” button. After you click the button, Mozilla may ask you to allow the extension installation. Click “Allow.”
3. After you click “Allow,” the “Software Installation” software box will appear. Click “Install.”
4. Google Translate will be instantly installed. However you’ll need to restart your browser to begin using it. After you restart your browser, a “T” icon for the add-on will be in the top-right corner of your browser.
5. To use Google Translate in Firefox, click the “T” icon and the page will open in a new tab already translated.
6. The following toolbar is displayed after clicking the icon. You can configure the behavior with this toolbar.
7. By default, all sites are translated into English but you can change this behavior by clicking the drop-down menu to change the options. After selection the Options, you can configure the behavior of the Google Translate.
Internet Explorer
For those using Internet Explorer (IE), Google Translate has some compatibility issues with IE. The best alternative is to use Bing Translate, which is part of the Bing Bar. The Bing Bar comes with other social media and general tools. These include Facebook, weather, maps, etc.
NOTE: If you do not want these tools, they can be removed from the Bing Bar so that only the Bing Translate tool is shown on the Bing Bar. See the Bing Bar additional menu discussion below which lets you remove other Bing Bar tools.
1. Download the Bingbar http://www.bingtoolbar.com/toolbar/welcome7.html
2. Once the download completes (You may have to click RUN for this to install in IE).
Follow the installation prompts for the Bing Bar. It will finish installing in a minute or two and you should not have to restart IE.
3. When the Bing Bar finishes installing, the following dialogue will be displayed. You have to select Finish to complete the installation.
4. Internet Explorer will refresh, and you may be prompted to enable the Bing Bar with the following prompts. You have to click Enable to start the Bing Bar.
5. By default, the Bing Bar does not show the Bing Translate button. It must be enabled. Follow these steps.
6. Select the Bing Bar additional menu.
7. You enable Bing Translate by making it available on the Bing Bar. Follow these steps in numbered order by clicking on each item 1 through 5.
8. After enabling Bing Translate on the Bing Bar, you will see the Bing Translate icon.
9. Once you select the Bing Translate ICON( ) you will see an option to set source language (Bing Translate will try and identify the source for you) and the target language. You can check the Always Translate check-box if you wish Bing Translate to always translate pages into the target language.
Safari
For those using Safari browser on Mac. The best option is a Safari extension called “Translate Safari”. It provides a toolbar button and contextual menu item that allows you to quickly translate the current Safari page via Google Translate or Microsoft Translate. Google Translate is the default. Latest version is 1.2 It’s Donate-ware but can be downloaded and used for free.
This seems to be a good implementation but does add additional ICONs to the toolbar.
One unique feature is that this extension provides an option to show side-by-side view of both the English and Target Language.
The following Youtube Video provides a very complete installation instructions for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVfjto1Z24M.
The beauty of modern web browsers is their flexibility. They serve as mini OS (in laymen terms) as they allow addons to be installed which could add exceptional unexpected features to your browser. So, this way, you don’t need to leave your browser to execute certain tasks. Mozilla’s addons repository is full of thousands of useful extensions. In this article, I’m listing top 5 firefox addons for dictionary lookup convenience. We all know that we can use search engines to lookup a particular word (For example, just type define:theWord on Google and it will show your its meaning), but this approach takes one extra step and it disturbs our reading or regular browsing experience. How expert you’re in English, you’ll encounter new and unknown words while you browse the web and you’d love to know the meaning of that particular word to add to your vocabulary. SO, by installing any of these preferred addons on your firefox browser, you can easily lookup words definitions without leaving the current webpage. This ensures smooth reading experience without much of hassle. So, let’s take a look:
Dictionary Pop-Up by Dictionary.com (Official)
This if official Firefox extension from one of the most popular free online dictionary website. While on any webpage, you just need to click on the word of whose meaning you want to know. A small popup would appear on the page with its definitions and a link to know more. It also presents synonyms from Thesaurus.com.. It also includes pronunciation feature. You’ll just need to click on the audio icon in the small popup and you’ll be able to listen to the word’s exact pronunciation (although, pronunciation require quicktime plugin to be installed). Moreover, you can customize the popup box to your comfort – you can adjust the pop-up display position (top of the word or below it), what triggers the pop-up display, whether to show synonyms or not, how many definitions to display, the font-size of the dictionary definitions shown, etc.
Go to this page from your firefox browser and press on Continue to Download button. Hit on Accept and Install in the next step.
Dictionary Lookup Extension
This addon uses reference.dictionary.com to lookup selected words’ meanings. Just highlight the word by selecting it, right click on the highlighted word, you’ll see Define option. Go to the menu and it will show you the definition and explanation of the word. Add Dictionary Lookup Extension for Mozilla Firefox.
Mozilla Translate Whole Page
Multi Dictionary Lookup
This is also a very interesting firefox extension for dictionary lookup. As the name suggests, this addon provides you choices so that you can select the preferred dictionary be it babylon, the free dictionary, thesaurus, wikipedia, etc. You can specify list of preferred dictionaries which would appear in the context menu when you highlight a word. So, select a word, right click it and it’ll display you few options to retrieve the definitions, meanings of the concerned word in a small popup box. Download and install Multi Dictionary Lookup firefox addon.
Dictionary Tooltip
Page Translator Firefox
This is also one of the popular firefox extension for dictionary lookup in the browser without leaving the currently viewed webpage. Select a word and then right-click it and choose view definition from the context menu. A popup will be displayed on the same page with relevant meanings, definitions and explanation of the concerned word or phrase. It also works by shortcut key ctrl+shift+K or double-click on a word. Moreover, you can customize the keys to adjust to your liking. You can also customize the dictionary source or add more dictionary websites to retrieve results from. It also gives you the ability to add note and review your history at a later time. Get Dictionary Tooltip on your firefox browser.
Quick Dictionary Lookup From BeeDictionary.com
This firefox addon provides word meanings, phonetics, pronunciation with audio option, usages in a neat popup when you press shift+right-click on the desired word. As the name of the extension suggests, it retrives definitions from BeeDictionary.com.. The only complaint that most users have with this extension is that it doesn’t contain option dialog to change the shortcut key. We hope this may improve in future release of this addon. Add this firefox addon from here.
So, we’ve listed above best 5 extensions based on user reviews, ratings and popularity for dictionary lookup. We’d also like to mention another very useful addon which combines the feature of dictionary and translator. The name of the extension is Wikitionary and Google Translate. As the name suggests, this addon fetches words meanings from wikitionary and uses Google Translate to translate the words, sentences into the desired language inline. Double-click the word or phrase to see its definition or hold ctrl key and move your mouse over the text to translate the content into preferred language. You can even translate the whole page by hitting on translate button added to browser by this addon. It also has option dialog to customize shortcut key and the popup box style. Download Wikitionary and Google Translate firefox addon from here.
Mozilla Translate Web Page
If you know of some other related firefox addons, feel free to point out in comments.
Mozilla Translate Page
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