I find the built-in Translations feature very useful, as I often visit websites with varying languages. However I feel it's missing many options that would help users control their experience.
- Currently the translation feature is not offered for pages whose language(s) is one of the selected for displaying webpage content. This may appear to be logical on the surface, but it's actually far from ideal. For example you may be able to understand a foreign language to a certain extent but not have full proficiency, meaning that sometimes I'm ok reading the content while other times you would prefer a full page translation. Also, it might be the case that you would be interested to translate a page from your native language to another one.
- This also makes the pop-up menu to feel quite intrusive when you choose not to include a foreign language you partially understand to the list of selected languages for displaying content in order to have the translation option.
- It also leads to yet another problem, namely you cannot access any option of the feature unless you visit a website with content in a foreign language (technically you can access some options via settings, but you are only given the option to remove languages/websites not add).
Therefore, I suggest that a few options are added to a dedicated section in the browser settings:
- The ability to show the icon always, never, or according to the current behavior (only on pages not included in the preferred languages).
- The ability (when the translation option is offered) for the pop-up menu to behave the same way, always appear, never appear, or appear for non-preferred languages.
- A cleaner way to show which languages are preferred for displaying webpage content in the settings.
- A dedicated section for "Translations Settings" instead of the currently implemented pop-up.
