Reviews for DeepL Translate: Reading & writing translator
DeepL Translate: Reading & writing translator by DeepL
857 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13605504, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Cy "kkm" K'Nelson, a year agoThe extension functionality is A-OK, solid 5/5. It's the implementation that kills it usefulness, and barely scrapes 0/5. I could go into the negative score numbers, but boy, where I would've stopped then...
I had to uninstall the extension because it throws its trash around all over the browser. It injects a humongous CSS stylesheet, 115KB(!) in size, into *every single open tab*, regardless of DeepL translation being ever used. I estimated that I used the selection translation pop-up at about one in every 500 to 1000 pages. This is a truly humongous waste of resources. The stylesheet contains 734 selectors, 2999 property settings and two @media width breakpoints. You'd have a hard time convincing me that this is a bare minimum necessary to display a simple pop-up box…
And then, in any case, a sensibly written extension would have delayed loading its CSS until it is actually needed, i.e. until it actually displays something. And load it into a sandbox, so that it's gone when the pop-up is closed: come think of it, DOM shadow roots were invented for a reason, and scoping resources in time was one of the two major ones. Now, the funny part, albeit not ha-ha funny: the extension does in fact use a shadow root for the pop-up, and… yes, you guessed it, loads another copy of its juggernaut CSS sheet into it. Why it also stuffs all this useless CSS everywhere it only can is beyond me, but loading the CPU with the browser's failing to match the extra 750 selectors every time the layout is recomputed—and "responsive" layouts on dynamically changing pages have to be deeply recomputed often!—isn't something I can use. I have better ways to waste my CPU than this extension.
As soon as the issue is fixed, I'm upgrading my rating to 5/5 not thinking twice. I hope that this is just an oversight, a bad design decision that could be soon reassessed and undone. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15786543, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Marie, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Hendrik, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 命之时, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nonac Banana, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mahdiameri, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12949869, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ran, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15526997, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13325126, a year agoFunktioniert soweit wie gewünscht, eine sehr nützliche Erweiterung.
Leider ist die Pro-Version für Ottonormal viel zu teuer. - Rated 5 out of 5by Meirbek, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FoxEdit, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ZzZ, a year agoIt just works! No kidding, you almost don't notice this add-on, just highlight the text, click on the button, and it works!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18148848, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by bogdy, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BlackWinny, a year agoI confirm the malfunction warning issued by the previous user: once installed, the add-on didn't work on my machine either... the small icon didn't popup near the selected text. Not understanding why, I went to the add-on's permission settings and discovered that the "Access your data for all your websites" permission (in French on my machine) had remained deactivated. I activated it manually... then I refreshed a page that was already open in any other Firefox tab, and tried a translation again: this time it worked, the small icon poped-up and the translation appeared when clicking the icon. And since then, everything works perfectly. I don't know whether it's Mozilla that refused to allow this option to be activated by the add-on installer or whether it's an oversight in the add-on installer itself. Anyway, everything now works perfectly.
Developer response
posted a year agoHi there,
If you have any additional info you can share with us so we can take a look at the problem, please get in touch via email at firefox@deepl.com. Thank you!- Rated 5 out of 5by Evelyne Hoehn, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18205621, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18203799, a year ago