Just wondering - it seems often that the appearance of the translation bar is quite random, and often doesn't appear on the very pages you most want to translate (if it's a language based issue, then I've noticed it most with French and Japanese ;). Sometimes it'll pop up and automatically translate (into english, for me), sometimes it'll pop up and ask whether I want to translate, and other times it won't appear at all... even within the same group of pages, and in certain cases, even changing behaviour on serial revisits of the same page. However, reloading doesn't have any effect, and generally if it's not (or has stopped) appearing on a particular page, no amount of navigating will make it appear or return on that page.
I've had a look in the Chrome settings before, and I can't see anything that can force the bar to be permanently displayed (wouldn't want it all the time, but if I'm navigating a particular site for a while, I could turn it on, then back off later), or any evidence of a key combination/menu item/etc that can prompt it to appear. Simply setting the "always translate" option on (when the bar does appear) isn't that helpful, as it probably won't translate the bugged pages anyway (otherwise, wouldn't the bar appear to offer the service?), and I don't always want them translated... particularly because of the slowdown and jigging about of page elements as a side effect, on sites or pages where I already know my way around and am trying to get to a particular set of content which I will then want translated (but sometimes I also want to be able to use the original text - and if I'm not getting a bar, then the "show original" button will also be missing; at least if I'm stuck with the foreign version, I can copy-paste it into the Gtranslate website). Maybe I'm being dumb and I've missed something very obvious here, but I just can't find a way to manually launch the in-browser translation, or to make it a semipermanently displayed toolbar. (And obviously the detection routine can never be perfect, but it is puzzling when 90+ percent of the text content on a page is very obviously in french, japanese, chinese, german, etc with very little use of english words, sentence order, or even latin alphabet, but the browser seems stubbornly convinced that it's actually english) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-translate-general/-/4eLDg6XOLmYJ. 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.
