Get rid of Google translate toolbar?
For a while now (after the latest update of Firefox) there is a "Google View this page in (select language)" and then a button with "Translate" and another button that says "Turn off for" (language) ..
How do I get rid of this annoying "help" that I do not want? I will let Google Translate know if I want help ... It is not only on my computer.
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Hi !
In Options => General => under 'Languages' => click 'choose' and make sure you got your preferred languages set in the right order.
If that's not it, would you please take a look at this :
https://superuser.com/questions/877985/how-to-uninstall-google-translate-toolbar-in-firefox
(The fact that this is about Windows 7 and not 10, shouldn't matter)
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Here is a screenshot
Type about:customizing<enter> in the address bar. Look for Show / Hide Toolbars at the bottom left.
There is also a Restore Defaults button at the bottom middle.
Note: about:customizing is no longer present in Firefox 47+ releases.
- Press Alt or F10 to bring up the toolbar.
Then View > Toolbars > Customize. - Right-click on a blank spot in the toolbar and select Customize.
I can't find any info about this Google Translate thingy in the options or anywhere in Firefox (I have version 57.0.2 ). Restore Defaults did nothing about it either.
Sorry.
I have 57.0.2 so this was not really helpful, unfortunately.
Modified by Peztis
Chosen Solution
Hi !
In Options => General => under 'Languages' => click 'choose' and make sure you got your preferred languages set in the right order.
If that's not it, would you please take a look at this :
https://superuser.com/questions/877985/how-to-uninstall-google-translate-toolbar-in-firefox
(The fact that this is about Windows 7 and not 10, shouldn't matter)
I have the order set to English, Swedish and Spanish. I do not want translation on any of those but it pops apparently up when I come to any which is not English.
Thank you so much for the link, it is so nice to see that you are not alone in this annoyance! :D I will have a closer look at what it says in that link:
The translator toolbar is added by website code. It can't be uninstalled. Workarounds: It can be disabled (as described above) or by using a user style (with the Stylish addon) It can be blocked by disabling JavaScript (the NoScript addon is good for managing Javascript). The addons are, of course for Firefox.
Modified by Peztis
Found this :
https://userstyles.org/styles/104302/hide-google-website-translator
And then there is NoScript :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
According to that link I gave you earlier, you could also add a 'google.com/translate' filter to AdBlock Plus (but I don't know if you have that installed).
As suggested in the link given by Happy112, we added to uBlock the following and this seems to work:
translate.googleapis.*/*/main*js