Version 9.8.0.3

Release notes from 9.8.0.2 to 9.8.0.3:

• Added: Option to configure a DeepL Free Api key
• Comments section on sites like Fox News and Yahoo news are not translated
• Fixes and improvements
• Updated interface translations

Full release notes

• Added
  • Release notes since version 1.0
  • Added option to set extension UI language
  • A new way to translate PDF
    1. Open website pdf.translatewebpages.org
    2. Select or drag and drop a PDF file
    3. The translation will start immediately and happen dynamically as you scroll through the page
  • Improve translation button in page translation panel, with the options:
    • Select the original website language
    • Select target language
    • Page translation service
    • Do not sort translation results (This option will only apply to the current tab)
  • Privacy tab on the settings page, with the options:
    • Select the translation services you want to use
    • Silently use an alternate translation service if the current target language is not supported by the selected translation service
  • Experimental tab on the settings page, with the options:
    • Configure your Libretranslate server for text (not page) translation.
    • Configure a DeepL Free API API key to translate text (not pages).
  • Support for 26 new target languages: Tibetan, Lower Sorbian, Emoji 😀 (yandex only), Fijian, Faroese, French (Canada), Upper Sorbian, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuktitut (Latin), Chinese (Literary), Mongolian (Traditional), Nyanja, Querétaro Otomi, Dari, Portuguese (Portugal), Rundi, Elvish (Sindarin), Serbian (Latin), Klingon (Latin), Klingon (pIqaD), Setswana, Tongan, Tahitian, Yucatec Maya, Cantonese (Traditional).
  • Favorite languages in the language selector on Android
• Changes
  • Nodes modified by jiffyreader will not be translated
  • Links in Twitter posts will not be translated to improve translation quality
  • When translating selected text on PDF and other restrictive websites, you now have the option to listen to the original text as well
  • Now tabs opened by TWP appear next to your current tab.
  • When this version is installed, if your text translation service is set to DeepL, it will change to Google or Bing
• Fixed
  • Selected text translation not working in other extensions popup
  • Layout breaks on some Wikipedia pages when the Do not sort translation results option is enabled
  • Pressing Ctrl twice in the selected text translation panel translates the entire page
  • Comments section on sites like Fox News and Yahoo news are not translated
• Bug fixes and general improvements
• Update interface translations

Version 9.8.0b2

This is a beta version, to test it you must install it manually (it will not be updated automatically).

If you use Chrome or Edge you can install by clicking directly on TWP_9.8.0b2_Chromium.crx if you run the new file twp-registry-install.reg.

Release Notes from 9.8.0b1 to 9.8.0b2:

• Added
  • Release notes since version 1.0
  • Added option to set extension UI language
  • A new way to translate PDF
    1. Open website pdf.translatewebpages.org
    2. Select or drag and drop a PDF file
    3. The translation will start immediately and happen dynamically as you scroll through the page
  • Support for 26 new target languages: Tibetan, Lower Sorbian, Emoji 😀 (yandex only), Fijian, Faroese, French (Canada), Upper Sorbian, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuktitut (Latin), Chinese (Literary), Mongolian (Traditional), Nyanja, Querétaro Otomi, Dari, Portuguese (Portugal), Rundi, Elvish (Sindarin), Serbian (Latin), Klingon (Latin), Klingon (pIqaD), Setswana, Tongan, Tahitian, Yucatec Maya, Cantonese (Traditional).
• Changes
  • Nodes modified by jiffyreader will not be translated
  • Links in Twitter posts will not be translated to improve translation quality
  • When translating selected text on PDF and other restrictive websites, you now have the option to listen to the original text as well
• Fixed
  • Selected text translation not working in other extensions popup
  • Layout breaks on some Wikipedia pages when the Do not sort translation results option is enabled
  • Keep whitespace in textNodes to prevent the translation from getting truncated

Version 9.8.0b1

This is a beta version, to test it you must install it manually (it will not be updated automatically).

If you use Chrome or Edge you can install by clicking directly on TWP_9.8.0b1_Chromium.crx if you run the new file twp-registry-install.reg.

• Added
  • Improve translation button in page translation panel, with the options:
    • Select the original website language
    • Select target language
    • Do not sort translation results
  • Privacy tab on the settings page, with the options:
    • Select the translation services you want to use
    • Silently use an alternate translation service if the current target language is not supported by the selected translation service
  • Experimental tab on the settings page, with the options:
    • Configure your Libretranslate server for text (not page) translation.

Version 9.7.2

If you use Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc. See the new tutorial in the readme file on how to install the CRX file (with auto update) in these browsers.

• Added option to disable persistent translation cache (on-disk cache).
  • By default, persistent caching will be disabled.

Version 9.7.0.3

• Version 9.7.0.3

  • Fixed
    • DeepL not working.

• Version 9.7.0.2

  • Fixed
    • SID and Auth are not updated if error occurs on first attempt.

• Version 9.7.0.1

  • Fixed
    • Various bugs in Chrome due to outdated manifest file.

Version 9.7

• Added:
  • Bing as a page translation service.
  • Custom dictionary in site settings.
  • Option to change target language and favorite languages in setting page.
  • Checkbox to disable translate selected text button in simple interface.
  • Auto update for chromium. (CRX only)
  • Taskbar button changes color when page is translated. (Also works in chrome).
• Fixed:
  • Option Always translate this site does not work if the language of the site is unknown.
  • If a translation error occurs due to internet problems, the extension does not try to translate these texts again unless the browser is restarted.
  • Material icons are also translated.
  • Some extension colors.
  • Some bugs when translating sites that use SvelteJS and SolidJS.
  • YouTube video title disappears when the extension is translating the site.
  • DeepL and Bing do not work.
  • Address bar button doesn't turn blue when clicking forward/backward.
  • The option Automatically translate when clicking on a link [...] does not work on some sites.
  • Fixed support for old browsers.
• Changes: (some changes fix potential bugs)
  • Minor performance improvement.
  • Now the extension's two interfaces are just called Simple and Complex.
  • On the settings page the lists of sites and languages are now in alphabetical order.
  • Inform in the simple interface which language the site will be/was translated into.
  • The Always translate from [...] option will be hidden if the target language is the same as the original website language.
  • Incomplete translations due to error are removed when clicking translate again.
  • Check to prevent a null entry being inserted into the persistent cache.
  • Convert nodeName to lowerCase to avoid problems with XML nodes.
  • Now the extension will only update when the browser or extension is restarted.
• Refactored several files.
• Interface localization in 5 new languages. In total, the extension's interface is localized in 40 languages, thanks to everyone who contributed.
• Bug fixes and general improvements

Version 9.7-beta-2

• Fixed:
  • Address bar button doesn't turn blue when clicking forward/backward.
  • The option Automatically translate when clicking on a link [...] does not work on some sites.
• Now the extension will only update when the browser or extension is restarted.
• Updated interface translations.

Version 9.7-beta-1

• Added:
  • Custom dictionary in site settings.
  • Option to change target language and favorite languages in setting page.
  • Checkbox to disable translate selected text button in simple interface.
  • Auto update for chromium.
  • Taskbar button changes color when page is translated. (Also works in chrome).
• Fixed:
  • Option Always translate this site does not work if the language of the site is unknown.
  • If a translation error occurs due to internet problems, the extension does not try to translate these texts again unless the browser is restarted.
  • Material icons are also translated.
  • Some extension colors.
  • Some bugs when translating sites that use SvelteJS and SolidJS.
  • YouTube video title disappears when the extension is translating the site.
  • DeepL and Bing do not work.
• Changes: (some changes fix potential bugs)
  • Minor performance improvement.
  • Now the extension's two interfaces are just called Simple and Complex.
  • On the settings page the lists of sites and languages are now in alphabetical order.
  • Inform in the simple interface which language the site will be/was translated into.
  • The Always translate from [...] option will be hidden if the target language is the same as the original website language.
  • Incomplete translations due to error are removed when clicking translate again.
  • Check to prevent a null entry being inserted into the persistent cache.
  • Convert nodeName to lowerCase to avoid problems with XML nodes.
• Refactored several files.
• Interface localization in 5 new languages. In total, the extension's interface is localized in 40 languages, thanks to everyone who contributed.

Version 9.6.1

• Support for older versions of Firefox.
• Updated interface translations.

Version 9.6

Added:

• Option to replace selected text with translated text
  • When you type a message, select the message and translate the selected text, instead of the copy text button there will be a button to replace/paste the translated text with the selected text.
  • If the Translate selected text when pressing Ctrl twice option is enabled. Hitting Ctrl when the popup is open will be the same as clicking that new button.
  • When selecting text, the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+X will translate and replace the selected text instantly without showing any popup.
    • You can edit this hotkey in the extension's settings.
• Added 33 new target languages: Assamese, Aymara, Bambara, Bashkir, Bhojpuri, Chuvash, Dhivehi, Dogri, Ewe, Guarani, Hill Mari, Ilocano, Kazakh (Latin), Konkani, Krio, Kurdish (Sorani), Lingala, Luganda, Mari, Maithili, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo, Oromo, Papiamento, Quechua, Sanskrit, Sepedi, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Twi, Udmurt, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Yakut.
• Translation for language names in: Catalan, Danish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Persian, Swedish, Thai and Portuguese (Portugal).

Fixed:

• Some parts of the translation are lost and consequently parts of the page are left untranslated
• The <option> html tag is not translated.
• Fixed: showOriginalTextWhenHovering always translates placeholder instead of value
• Traditional Chinese is not detected as site language
• text-to-speech does not work on long texts in some languages
• Option to reset/import settings does not work in firefox android
• The original button is blue even when the page is translated on android
• Bugs related to invalid language code
• Bugs related to translation with DeepL

Changes:

• Now text-to-speech has an in-memory cache
• Now the translation service will change silently if the selected target language is not supported by the preferred translation service.
• Updated interface translations