It's an option I was looking for a very, very long time, so I was very happy to this see this thing pop up in the news.
Unfortunately it doesn't work for me and would need several changes to be efficient.
For context I'm a longtime French firefox user and I constantly need to quickly translate english words or 2-3 words expressions. I have a good level in English, but not perfect especially for advanced words. I never found a solution suitable for this need in the various add-ons, I just guess there is not so much demand for this. Some years ago I finally found a half-decent solution: CTRL + C on the word, CTRL + T, "tr" (the shortcut i gave for google translate search engine) and CTRL + V. I do this probably between 5 and 30 times a day.
So was very happy I'm just 2 click away from my translation, unfortunately that doesn't really work for me and I see a lot of room for improvement:
- It only propose me "translate Selection to English", though I want to translate it to French 😞 So unusable for me. I guess it's because I put English for UI and preferred language. It should be configurable. As an IT tech it's a no-go to fetch the french webpages first.
- An absolute must would be to have the word (or short sentence) translated directly into the context menu (like in a sub-menu), then if you click on the translated content you open the current translation windows with more options.
- Another absolute must: for words or short expression, give not only one translation but at least the 2 or 3 most relevant/frequent translations, the reality is that when you use translation for single words and not for entire webpages, there's rarely only one good answer.
Hope you continue to work on this and a lot of users adopt it 🙂