Translate Now version history - 23 versions
Translate Now by Geoffrey De Belie
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Latest version
Version 5.0.4
Released Aug 24, 2024 - 41.4 KBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later, android 121.0 and later* Google Translate: fix URL (Google changed the structure)
* DeepL Translator: fix language display bug when source language is set to "auto"
* Notify user when content script does not have permissionsSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
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Version 5.0.3
Released Jan 30, 2024 - 41.4 KBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later, android 121.0 and later* DeepL Translator: add more languages to the dropdown in the options: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian
* Set default destination language to detect automatically ("auto"). The property navigator.language is used if there is no destination language set yet and if it's not empty. Otherwise fallback to the previous default English ("en")Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 5.0.2
Released Jan 30, 2024 - 41.34 KBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later, android 121.0 and later* Add documentUrlPatterns (http and https) so that context menu items don't show on internal pagesSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 5.0.1
Released Jan 27, 2024 - 41.31 KBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later, android 121.0 and later* Fix event listener bugs introduced with the migration to Manifest V3Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 5.0.0
Released Dec 22, 2023 - 41.3 KBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later, android 121.0 and laterFeatures
* Migrate to Manifest V3
* Minimum Firefox requirement is now version 109
* Promises are replaced by async await
* Support for Chrome
* Support for Firefox on Android 121 and up (no context menus so no voice functionality)
Fixes
* Audio only Google Translate: fixed character limit calculation (functionality is disabled in this version)
* Google Translate: cleanup code
* Bing Translator works again
Changes
* Use context menu icons when possible (Chrome doesn't support subitems with icons)
* Speaking engines: Google Translate Voice and Bing Translator Voice are nonfunctional and disabled due to bugs (help wanted)
* Google Translate Voice (audio only) now always uses the source language (instead of the destination language). For the pronounciation to be correct, you need to set your source language correct (not on detect automatically). (functionality is disabled in this version)
* Clicking the extension button on an unsupported page will now open the translation page
* Change homepage to github.com/Smile4ever/Translate-Now
* Add DeepL Translator Voice (functionality is disabled in this version)Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 4.0.2
Released Mar 6, 2020 - 40.33 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 to 68.*- Fix support for Firefox 52.8.1, see #165
- Improve URL validation using #162, fixes #161
- Only translate selected links when the option is enabledSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 4.0.1
Released May 4, 2019 - 40.14 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 to 68.*- Focus window if it contains the tab which was last opened for Google Translate
- Use another URL structure for Google Translate, fixes #156
- Automatically hide notification after 5 seconds
- Change homepage to itsafeature.orgSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 4.0.0
Released Jan 5, 2019 - 36.62 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterFeatures
- Multiple speech engines can now be used next to each other
- Introduce the "reuse tab for all engines" option
- Show icons in the context menu (visible when more than one engine is selected)
Fixes
- DeepL now uses a different mechanism to set the text, which means it works more reliable
- For very long selections (more than 16384 characters), use the content script to retrieve the selection
Changes
- Options page: update the layout for newer Firefox releases
- Options page: include subheadings to easily find options back
- Remove Preferences item from the browser action, since a "Manage extension" entry is already available
- "var" usage replaced with "let"
- Make more use of querySelector
- Use native way of opening related tabs
- Cleanup codeSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 3.1.6
Released Apr 12, 2018 - 19.21 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 to 68.*- Fix Bing Translator Voice not working
- Fix Bring Translator not working
- Use magic number 85 instead of 75 for Bing Translator Voice audio lengthSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 3.1.5
Released Dec 1, 2017 - 18.86 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 to 68.*- Fix iframe selection not working when using toolbar button
- Solve a warning about browser_style
- Pass selection value that we have
- Allow for nested iframes, 1 level beneath the iframe (iframe in iframe)
- Change var usage to let usage
- CleanupsSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 3.1.4
Released Nov 20, 2017 - 18.86 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 to 68.*Fix: DeepL no longer working, fixes #87Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 3.1.3
Released Sep 25, 2017 - 18.85 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 to 68.*- DeepL support should now work in more cases, and help the user if it doesn't work within 4 seconds
- Selections longer than 150 characters should be considered OK to use. Will allow for selections > 150 characters on priviledged sites.Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 3.1.2
Released Sep 23, 2017 - 18.58 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 to 68.*- Fix badge text
- Fix for priviledged sites
- Fix for DeepL languages not correctly set
- Insert DeepL source text differentlySource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 3.1.1
Released Sep 23, 2017 - 18.69 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterFix DeepL supportSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 3.1.0
Released Sep 22, 2017 - 18.57 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterAdd DeepL supportSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 3.0.1
Released Jun 12, 2017 - 18.08 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterWorkaround for bug 1354336 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1354336)Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 3.0.0
Released May 21, 2017 - 18.03 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and later- Expanded support for languages:
- Added support for Amharic, Bulgarian, Corsican, Frisian, Hawaiian, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Kurdish, Luxembourgish, Pashto, Samoan, Scottisch Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhalese
and Xhosa
- Dropped support for Chinese (Traditional) in favor of the general flavor "Chinese"
- Renamed Chinese (Simplified) to Chinese, renamed Sundanese (sic) to Sudanese Arabic
- Renamed Tagalog (Filipino) to Filipino (Tagalog), added Tagalog (Filipino) as primary choice
- Add support for Bing Translator and Bing Translator Voice
- Added preference Translate engine to switch between Google Translate and Bing Translator
- Added preference Voice engine to switch between Google Translate Voice and Bing Translator Voice
- Added support for selecting text in input elements inside iframes
- Speak action reworked.
- Speak action now uses the translation page. If you want to use the old speak action for Google Translate Voice, check the preference "Use audio only for Google Translate
Voice".
- Added preference Text to speak to decide which text needs to be spoken. Can be set to the original text, the translated text or both.
- Do not attempt to speak a language with Google Translate Voice that is not supported when using the new speak experience.
- Do not attempt to play audio twice if the source text equals the destination text.
- Added support for full page translation using Google Translate.
- Fixed bug #18
- Add toolbar button to translate the current page or selection.
- Right click the toolbar button and select "Remove from Toolbar" to remove it from the toolbar.
- Automatically falls back to Google Translate for full page translation.
- Right click the toolbar button and select Preferences to change the preferences of Translate NowSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 2.0.2
Released May 8, 2017 - 13.53 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterFix iframe selectionSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 2.0.1
Released May 3, 2017 - 13.31 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterFix selection in iframes.
- Support cross domain iframes having a selection with less than 150 characters.
- Same origin iframes should always work and have no limitation on the selection length.Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 2.0.0
Released Mar 15, 2017 - 12.91 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterSpeak 195 characters when limit of 195 is reached (instead of doing nothing)
Add notification when translating upon reaching the upper limit of 5000 selected characters
Do not display the same notification twice, but instead close the first one and open the second
Hide the options if they are not yet loaded, instead displaying a message to refresh the options page. Useful when the extension is loaded using about:debugging.
Fix bug: selection in document.activeElement for input elements should be treated as a selection
Fix bug: wrong condition when assigning selectionText to selectedText
Use HTTPS for both actions (translate and speak)
Best-effort support for addons.mozilla.org among other priviledged websitesSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 1.3.0
Released Mar 5, 2017 - 12.36 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterInsert as related tabs by default, can be changed in the preferences
Improve build script
Load options.js using deferSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 1.2.0
Released Feb 13, 2017 - 12.14 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Version 1.1.1
Released Feb 12, 2017 - 11.95 KBWorks with firefox 48.0 and laterSource code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only