Josh Estelle: Thanks for your involvement on this!
I posted about this issue on 12/31/10, with some followups and references to prior postings. To sum up, this issue: --occurs for me in current versions of Safari, Firefox, and (less often?) Chrome. --appears to occur more often with longer, but still quite short, amounts of "from" text. Very, very roughly: it does not occur with 4 lines of typical "from" text, and I start to see it at about 25 lines of "from" text. --occurs for me most often with Russian-to-English, but that's what I use most often recently. I did a quick check of French-to-English and saw the same issue in at least one browser, suggesting that it could be language-independent Starting from a "bare" URI -- the URL "http://translate.google.com"; with no query string-- as you suggest does seem to be a good work- around. But: in some cases, the bare URI is over-written after a brief pause, presumably by behind-the-scenes scripting. The result is a "complete" URI containing "from" and "to" languages specified in the query string. In such cases, the work-around fails. Possibly connected: occasional cases recently in which the "from" text itself appears in the query string. This may have some connection to the issue occurring more often with longer "from" text. Or not. Generally: I've observed unpredictability in the operation of the translator recently, over a given session, with different (?) variations from day-to-day. TIA, hen3ry On Jan 10, 10:19 am, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > Hi guys, > > We are aware of a bug that you guys may be encountering. > Is it possible that you've bookmarked Google Translate? If so, what > URL do you start from? > If you always start fromhttp://translate.google.com/, I believe you > shouldn't have a problem. But if you have something else bookmarked, > there may be issues. We're working to resolve them, but if you let me > know what you have bookmarked, and precisely describe the behavior, > that'll be terrific. > > Thanks, > Josh Estelle > Senior Software Engineer > Google Translate > > On Jan 10, 4:28 am, Richard2011 wrote: > > > I have been having the same problem with all of my Mac browsers - > > Safari, Chrome and Firefox. I haven't tried it on Windows yet. > > > The workaround I discovered by accident is this: > > - Paste the text and press Translate > > - When it disappears, press Translate again with an empty box > > - Then paste the text and Translate again and it should work from > > that point on... > > > I have no idea why this works - maybe there's a shorter way of doing > > the same thing - but at least it works. > > > Richard > > > On Dec 29 2010, 4:15 pm, pangolin19 wrote: > > > > I am having trouble using Google translate for Russian-English > > > translation inSafari. If I input more than a paragraph, the > > > transation appears for an instant then I am returned a blank translate > > > box. Englsh-Russian works fine, and I don't have this problem with > > > Chrome. This is a new issue; I was able to useSafariwith no problems > > > a few months ago. I am usingSafari5.0.3. I have tried clearing the > > > cache and cookies. Anyone have any suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
