I find Firefox Translator doesn’t pick up a lot of pages. The location bar button doesn’t appear.

It works if I access via the hamburger menu. It is very slow to have to go via the menu for each individual page. I find no shortcut key or anything.

Sometimes this will correctly guess the original language but often not. It is saying pages are English even when they have little to no english, even using different alphabets.

Is there something the website admins can do to tell firefox what language it is? Encoding? Meta tag?

Can I force the location-bar translate button to persist on all pages regardless of what language it thinks the page is in? Then I could save going through the menu.

Here is an example: https://cn.chinadaily.com.cn/

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 days ago

        Must be some setting on your end, I’m getting offered translations on that page as well (stable release).

        Two things I could think of, either you haven’t set it to always offer translations or your browser is set to simplified Chinese.

        Another thing, you can select some text, right-click the selection, and there will be a translation option there. After you used that there will be a button for “translate the whole page” in the translation popup.

        Oh also you can download more languages through the settings (general settings page, right below browser language).