The current Internet browsers have become very powerful tools that help us in all kinds of daily tasks with the PC. With these we mean proposals such as the one Google presents to us with Chrome, or Mozilla with its Firefox.
Also keep in mind that thanks to the widely used work in the cloud, today we can perform all kinds of tasks from these specific programs. And it is that more and more users carry out a good part of their work from the Internet browser, hence the importance they have today.
The developers of these programs are fully aware of this, so they do not stop sending updates for them. These bring with them a good number of improvements that accumulate over the years, as usually happens in the world of software in general. Well, in these lines we are going to focus on the most used Internet browser in the world such as Google Chrome .
Browsers offer various ways to translate texts
To all this we will add the fact that as a general rule we visit websites of all kinds and from all countries, each with its corresponding language. Well, this is something that the developers of these programs, which we refer to here, also try to correct. This is something that will be very helpful to us if we do not speak more languages than the mother tongue. Thus, based on the fact that English could be said to be the language of the Internet, the translation methods presented by these programs will never be superfluous.
So, specifically here we are going to refer to all the ways that the aforementioned Google program presents us to translate the contents of the pages we visit. How could it be otherwise, the search giant tries to facilitate these tasks to a great extent. In this way, in these same lines we are going to facilitate these tasks and talk to you about the alternatives you have in this regard.
Translate from Chrome’s address bar
Of course, the options that we are going to talk about here will be available in the Internet browser, whenever we access a web page in another language . Specifically, this is something that the same software detects, based on the default language that we have configured, in this case in Chrome. It is evident that in our case it will be Spanish in most cases, something that we find in Settings / Languages in Chrome.
Therefore, when accessing a website with text content in another language, these functions to which we refer are activated.
Once this has been loaded, one of the options available to us is offered directly by the address bar. This is the bar in which we write the URL to access that website. Well, if we take a look at the right side of it, we will see an icon that gives us direct access to that translation. Therefore we only have to click on it so that we can select the language into which we want to translate the entire website , in our case, Spanish.
Use context menu for translations in Chrome
But as you can imagine, that is not the only method we have for all this. And is that as we mentioned earlier, the Google browser wants to make things much easier for us. Not surprisingly, the firm itself has its own translation platform, Google Translate , to use in these cases. In this way you can call it from the rest of your applications and take advantage of its potential, as is the case. To translate equally quickly, in this case we can do it from the context menu of Chrome.
For this we have to look for an empty space on the web, once it has been fully loaded. Of course, it is not worth that it is some type of link, but a free space of the same. Then we click with the right mouse button on it, so that the corresponding context menu appears.
Take advantage of the potential of Google Translate
As we have previously mentioned, the firm that we are talking about here and that owns Chrome, Google, has its own translation service. This is known as Google Translate which you can access from this link .
Well, as you can imagine, this will also serve to translate all kinds of content, both single texts and complete documents . We tell you this because when the time comes, this platform will also be very helpful to us when translating web pages that are in a language other than our own. To do this, all we have to do is copy the texts that interest us with the shortcut Ctrl + C , and paste them in the translation service commented with Ctrl + V.
Other options to translate web pages
Of course, we must bear in mind that this platform that we have spoken about to translate web pages is not the only one that we can use. And is that on the Internet we can find other proposals of this type just as powerful. Serve as an example the case of Deepl , a service that you can access from this link .
At the same time, in the event that we decide that we want to continue translating websites directly from Chrome itself, another very interesting solution is extensions . We refer to those small programs that we add to browsers to increase their functionality. Well, in this case, for example, we can use the extension called Trans / lator.
Similarly, we can also draw on another proposal of this type that can be very helpful, we refer to the extension called Translate Selected Text .
In this way, as its own name lets us see, once we have installed it in Chrome, we mark a text and click with the right mouse button to select the language into which we want to translate it.
