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The browser plugins version 1.2.25.0 now available

Adam LaMontagne — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:53:33 GMT

Version 1.2.25.0 contains the following changes:
- Seemingly random bits of text were not translated. (side effect of the "avoid repeat" in 1.2.14)
- Error when trying to change cloud SSO user
- Further reduction of server calls
+ Deprecated continuous translation, since it could cause massive (paid) throughput for a small gain in convenience

Version 1.2.25.0 is now available from the major browsers' app stores:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sdl-instant-translation/kpkfbagfhdhgfcnfaodapngddllbldfl

Edge (Chromium): https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/oalpigpgfkbcnmceofledihcbofeomkd

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sdl-instant-translation/

The browser plugins version 1.1.29.0 now available

Gerhard Kordmann — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:51:59 GMT

This release implements a bugfix:
- Some web pages with certain iframe setups stopped working when the plugin was installed. This happened just when loading the page, without actively using any plugin features.

Version 1.1.29.0 is now available from the major browsers' app stores:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sdl-instant-translation/kpkfbagfhdhgfcnfaodapngddllbldfl

Edge (Chromium): https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/oalpigpgfkbcnmceofledihcbofeomkd

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sdl-instant-translation/

The browser plugins version 1.1.28.0 now available

Gerhard Kordmann — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:22:22 GMT

This release implements a brushed up UI, reflecting the move from SDL to RWS.

It also fixes a few bugs:
- Changes in the Edge login details were not always applied immediately when clicking "Connect"
- The options window was often opened behind the browser in Firefox

Version 1.1.28.0 is now available from the major browsers' app stores:

Chrome: chrome.google.com/.../kpkfbagfhdhgfcnfaodapngddllbldfl

Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/.../

Edge (Chromium): microsoftedge.microsoft.com/.../oalpigpgfkbcnmceofledihcbofeomkd

Documentation for browser plugins

Gerhard Kordmann — Mon, 11 May 2020 11:41:03 GMT

The browser plugin adds SDL Machine Translation to any web page on the major browsers. Find out more from these resources:

Online help: docs.sdl.com
Demo video: on youtube
Download the plugin from the web stores:

The browser plugins version 1.1.11.0 now available

Gerhard Kordmann — Mon, 04 May 2020 10:13:27 GMT

This is a major upgrade, and next to UI improvements and bug fixes, it focuses on translating dynamic content. The previous plugins did a good job on classic web pages: once a page was loaded, it could be translated in one go. Increasingly though, page content changes by using JavaScript to modify it "under the hood", without reloading a page. This resulted in untranslated text, especially for continuous translation.

Some examples for dynamic content:

Look at an article in eBay, and then scroll down. As you reach the end of the page, a list of similar articles is displayed that were not there when the page was initially loaded.
Search for a topic on https://gateway.sdl.com/, and then click on one of the filter categories: the article list gets updated, but the rest of the page is not reloaded.
Service-Now and similar support systems usually rely heavily on building their content dynamically from a database, without leaving the browser page.

The majority of dynamic changes are now detected and handled in the background, making the plugins much more powerful. In some cases you don't even need continuous translation any more.

Version 1.1.11.0 is now available from the major browsers' app stores:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sdl-instant-translation/kpkfbagfhdhgfcnfaodapngddllbldfl

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sdl-instant-translation/

Edge (Legacy): https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/sdl-instant-translation/9p5h5nwq9hbw

Edge (Chromium): https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/oalpigpgfkbcnmceofledihcbofeomkd