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Translate Now version history - 23 versions

Translate Now by Geoffrey De Belie

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Translate Now version history - 23 versions
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  • Latest version

    Version 5.0.4

    Released Aug 24, 2024 - 41.4 KB
    Works 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 permissions

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only

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  • Older versions

    Version 5.0.3

    Released Jan 30, 2024 - 41.4 KB
    Works 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

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  • Version 5.0.2

    Released Jan 30, 2024 - 41.34 KB
    Works 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 pages

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  • Version 5.0.1

    Released Jan 27, 2024 - 41.31 KB
    Works with firefox 109.0 and later, android 121.0 and later
    * Fix event listener bugs introduced with the migration to Manifest V3

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  • Version 5.0.0

    Released Dec 22, 2023 - 41.3 KB
    Works with firefox 109.0 and later, android 121.0 and later
    Features
    * 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

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  • Version 4.0.2

    Released Mar 6, 2020 - 40.33 KB
    Works 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 enabled

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only

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  • Version 4.0.1

    Released May 4, 2019 - 40.14 KB
    Works 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.org

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  • Version 4.0.0

    Released Jan 5, 2019 - 36.62 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later
    Features
    - 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 code

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  • Version 3.1.6

    Released Apr 12, 2018 - 19.21 KB
    Works 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 length

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only

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  • Version 3.1.5

    Released Dec 1, 2017 - 18.86 KB
    Works 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
    - Cleanups

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  • Version 3.1.4

    Released Nov 20, 2017 - 18.86 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later, android 48.0 to 68.*
    Fix: DeepL no longer working, fixes #87

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  • Version 3.1.3

    Released Sep 25, 2017 - 18.85 KB
    Works 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.

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  • Version 3.1.2

    Released Sep 23, 2017 - 18.58 KB
    Works 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 differently

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  • Version 3.1.1

    Released Sep 23, 2017 - 18.69 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later
    Fix DeepL support

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  • Version 3.1.0

    Released Sep 22, 2017 - 18.57 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later
    Add DeepL support

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  • Version 3.0.1

    Released Jun 12, 2017 - 18.08 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later
    Workaround for bug 1354336 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1354336)

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  • Version 3.0.0

    Released May 21, 2017 - 18.03 KB
    Works 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 Now

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  • Version 2.0.2

    Released May 8, 2017 - 13.53 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later
    Fix iframe selection

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  • Version 2.0.1

    Released May 3, 2017 - 13.31 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later
    Fix 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.

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  • Version 2.0.0

    Released Mar 15, 2017 - 12.91 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later
    Speak 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 websites

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only

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  • Version 1.3.0

    Released Mar 5, 2017 - 12.36 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later
    Insert as related tabs by default, can be changed in the preferences
    Improve build script
    Load options.js using defer

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only

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  • Version 1.2.0

    Released Feb 13, 2017 - 12.14 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only

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  • Version 1.1.1

    Released Feb 12, 2017 - 11.95 KB
    Works with firefox 48.0 and later

    Source code released under GNU General Public License v2.0 only

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