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zio3d
New member
Status: New idea

I wanted to propose a small change.
The window for translating a web page currently offers the default value "Choose a language" for the "Translate to" field.

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It would be preferable if it proposed the last used value instead.
Currently I must every time to click on the drop down box, search for my language and click on it.
Generally, most of the time, you want to have the translation into a specific language that is unlikely to change. Rather than having a value that will need to be modified ("Choose a language"), it is better to propose the last used one, there is a greater chance that it will be correct.

Thanks.

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Jon
Community Manager
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marco
Employee
Employee

@zio3dwhat is the language of your browser? And which language are you choosing to translate web pages to?

gregtatum
Employee
Employee

Can you give me an example of a webpage that you want to translate plus the languages set in your browser? Specifically the language list in "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages". Normally there is a language present there, and I'm trying to understand why there isn't in this case.

zio3d
New member

@marco The language set on the browser is Italian.
The web pages to be translated are in English and I want to translate them into Italian.

 

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zio3d
New member

@gregtatum The problem occurs on all pages.
For example also the current post "https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/last-used-language-in-quot-translate-page-quot-window/idc-p/524...".
Or, taking a random page from Wikipedia, I have "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonham_Carter_family".

When it's time to translate the page, the translation window offers me "Choose a language" as the destination language, which I have to set to "Italian".

In my browser settings, I have the "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages" field with the following lines "Italiano [it]", "Italiano [it-it]", "Inglese (Stati Uniti) [en-us]" and "Inglese [en]".

 

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zio3d
New member

I tried on another PC and it actually already shows "Italian" as the target language.
However, I noticed that on the other PC the button for translating the page "zio3d_0-1709222649175.png" appears in the address bar, whereas on my PC it never appears.
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Did I deactivate something by mistake?

 

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zio3d
New member

@gregtatumEvery internet page.

For example "https://www.bbc.com/":

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Or Wikipedia "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon":

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These are my options:

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gregtatum
Employee
Employee

Here English being in the web page languages means that you won't be offered a translation, since the browser is requesting the English version. If you remove it, you should get offers for translation.

zio3d
New member

 

@gregtatum 

Excellent, by eliminating the two lines relating to the English language, it now works, the possibility of translating the pages into Italian appears.

But I imagine it becomes a problem for all Italians since it

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seems to be the default setting of Firefox Italian.

I checked on three different computers and all three have the same settings: "Italiano [it], Italiano [it-it], Inglese (Stati Uniti) [en-us], Inglese [en]".
I have now removed "Inglese (Stati Uniti) [en-us], Inglese [en]" from all three PCs.

Thanks.

zio3d
New member

Should I open another bug to fix the fact that all Italian versions of Firefox have 4 default languages? (Italian [it], Italian [it-it], English (United States) [en-us], English [en])
Since that is the case, no one like me will have the translation menu for web pages 🤔.