Translation opens a new tab instead of translating in place
Translate opens a separate Google Translate tab or copied page instead of translating the current page or selected text in place.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
25 public reports · first reported 12 November 2021 · last reported 1 June 2025
What's going wrong
Many Firefox users of this translation add-on say that pressing translate opens a separate Google Translate page or a copied tab rather than translating the text where they are reading.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 25 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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