To Google Translate

To Google Translate is an extension for Firefox that facilitates the way you can translate certain words, selected text or even whole pages.

From time to time, everyone will stumble upon words that they might not understand or paragraphs of text and pages in other languages. This extension can bring you the Google Translate service on the page for instant translation, instead of you always having to switch back and forth from a tab to another, where you can translate your text.

The extension will provide you an icon on the toolbar that will allow you access the Google Translate in a flash. This way, you can avoid the tedious work of switching to another tab when you need to translate a word, or piece of text, swiftly.

To Google Translate simplifies translations even more by adding a translating option to your right-click context menu, allowing you to translate on the spot from the Firefox browser.

Depending on which situation you right-click on a page, in the context menu you will either find one or more options. If you simply right-click, the only option available from the extension will be to translate the whole page automatically in the default language. But if you right-click on a selected portion of text, you will get a drop-down menu that will allow you to translate the text, listen to its translation, or translate the whole page.

You can set whichever language you prefer from the extension's settings panel. You can use it to auto-translate or only let it translate to a certain language. You can choose the text-to-speech language as well, and even add keyboard shortcuts for all the three types of translations available.

A great addition would be to allow you to translate by just clicking the mouse scroll wheel when a text is selected. But even so, I think To Google Translate brings enough features to the table, and can become a time-saver for those who need to use translations often.