Many times we need some information from a website which is not in our native language. We find it difficult to get the required information from that website.
In such cases, we take help from various online translator websites like Google translate, Babel fish, etc. But it requires some extra steps like copy the website URL, then open translator website, paste the URL, click on buttons, links, etc.
Wouldn't it be great if we could just translate the website in a single click? Now that's possible.
Microsoft has released a translator bookmarklet for web browsers which can be added to your browser's bookmark bar. Now whenever you need to translate a webpage, just click on the bookmarklet present in bookmark bar and it'll automatically translate the webpage in your language.
You just need to go to following website to get the translator bookmarklet:
When you open the above mentioned link, select your language and drag-n-drop the given bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar (favorites bar). Now open the webpage which is not in your native language and click on the bookmarklet. That's it.
Following is a preview of Microsoft Polish website before translating and after translating using the translator bookmarket:
Before using translator bookmarklet:
After using translator bookmarklet:
You can see in the above screenshots, it translates the webpages very accurately.
We tested the bookmarklet in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera and it worked in all these browsers perfectly.
Please give it a try and let us know your feedback in your comment...
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Someone
Bing Bar has Microsoft Translator built in...
Zex
Google bookmarklet is faster then Microsoft bookmarklet and it has Detect Language option.
On the down side, it doesn't work correctly on some sites as Microsoft bookmarklet does.
Rtyh-12
This is useless if you use Chrome as it automatically offers to translate pages when they're not in your language ;)
sasja
now, what about the speed, cpu/memory usage?
every time microsoft releases something, there are awesome alternatives to it.
and there is no reason to use microsoft, when there are better ones.
odio
@sasja i dont think this measures can be applied since this bookmarklet is just a bookmark.
odio
I already know the Google ones, but i dont like cause the big bar up on the screen and sometimes it does not work too (you need to click on 'translate' again on the bar)
The Microsoft one I liked. A little bit slow than Google one, but works fine and the small bar up the screen you almost forget it.
Errol
I'm a full time user of Opera web browser and I've been trying to use this translator and not for nothing I can use it and I don't where to click in my web browser to do the translation. I already have it as a bookmark. Please help me and give a little more details to using it in Opera web browser. Thanks
odio
@Errol open the page you want to translate and just click on the bookmark.
Errol
@odio every time I tried that it opens the Bing translator web page and takes me off the foreign language page. On my bookmark page I have Microsoft Translator and when I watch the pic above in the op I see a small dropdown arrow and Menu right next to it. I don't know if I've bookmarked it right.
Errol
@odio OK I got it. I just realized I had to take the word "Translate" with my mouse and drag it to the bookmark bar. Thanks but a little effort on my part did the trick.