SDL Web Browser plug-in
The SDL Web Browser plug-in (also known as add-on or extension) enables you to translate the content on any web page or part of the page.
You can configure the SDL Web Browser plug-in:
- To be invisible until needed
- To act more and more automatically up to the point of fully automated web page translation (without user interaction)
- Supported web browsers
The SDL Web Browser plug-in is available for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge (Chromium). Microsoft Edge (Legacy) is still available, but no longer actively developed. - Installing the SDL Web Browser plug-in
The SDL Web Browser plug-in is available from the Chrome webstore or the Firefox add-on store free of charge. - Connecting to a Machine Translation application
You can connect to SDL Machine Translation Edge or SDL Machine Translation Cloud by entering the credentials associated to either of these applications. - Checking plug-in and Machine Translation status
You can consult the status of your translation or server connection from the browser toolbar. - Translating content occasionally
If you translate web pages or parts of web pages occasionally and want to keep the browser behavior unchanged, you can use the context menu option. - Translating content with selection button
You can translate a particular text selection on your web page with an adjacent selection button. - Translating content with Dictionary resources
Dictionaries are lists of terms used only for a specific language pair direction. Dictionaries are very useful when users want to enforce consistency of terms or phrases throughout all the translations for a language pair. - Translating selections instantaneously
You can have your content translated as soon as you end selecting a particular stretch of text. This feature is very useful for the fast translation of single sentences or paragraphs. - Translating web pages with Translation Bar
Enable the Translation Bar functionality for the interactive translation of full web pages. - Translating web pages with Continuous Translation
Enable the Continuous Translation functionality to translate every we page right after it is loaded without user interaction. - Translating web pages with source language auto-detection
If you want to fully automate the translation of web pages or segment translation, you can enable the auto-detection of the source language. This functionality is very useful, when you want to translate a large number of web pages to the same target language, but their source language is different. The same applies to segment translation. - Copying translated content to clipboard
You can copy translated content to a location of your choice. This functionality only affects selection translation and does not apply to page translations. - Limitations
The SDL Web Browser plug-in has some limitations when delivering MT (Machine Translation) results.