1896078 - always offer to translate

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Translations, enhancement)

Description

[Janokisu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Native language: German

• A website opened, which is German but have English content
• the icon for the translated is not displayed

Actual results:

the icon for the translated is not displayed

Expected results:

the symbol for the translated should be displayed so that pages that are German but have English content can be translated

Comment 1

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

I would like to confirm this enhancement suggestion. Can you provide us with the test page that it can be reproduced on? Thanks!

Comment 2

[Janokisu]

Random reddit comments

for example https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/10w6zbz/multiplayer_blender_all_in_the_browser/

Comment 3

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

I confirm your enhancement suggestion. When opening a webpage that changes its menu language based on the language of the browser (like Reddit) will not allow the full page translation feature to activate even tho all content is displayed in English. Thank you for your report!

P.S. For some unclear reason, reproduction was somewhat inconsistent.

Comment 4

[Janokisu]

We've already got v. 132 and the problem is still there.
It can't be that difficult to add another menu item to ignore the language check. It takes maybe 15 minutes if you know where.
Why all the nonsense about the browser deciding which pages I can and can't translate anyway?

If you need a better example than Reddit, you can also use steamcommunity. If you set your language under language, you have no option to translate the page with the tool.

Comment 5

[padtole]

Many Japanese sites that allow for international users will allow users to set the page language to English or Simplified Chinese or maybe even something else, but the content from users on the site is still overwhelmingly written in Japanese; these options only end up changing the navigation UI. Pixiv is a good example of this phenomenon. So, there's another testbed for you.

IMO, an advanced user should be allowed to set a preference that says "always show the translate button in the URL bar" so they don't need to go to the trouble of opening the hamburger menu. Even if it only saves a click, it's still a nice UX improvement.

Comment 6

[star543]

I completely agree.
It's common for some content on a page to differ from the page's declared language. For example, an English site with several Japanese comments, or vice versa.
Therefore, the translation button should only be hidden when languages are not mixed; otherwise, it should be displayed.