By simply clicking on the “Add to Chrome” button you will download and install small half a megabyte mini-app that will integrate itself into the browserand become ready to use via four methods: highlighting of a word or phrase that will cause the appearance of a pop-up translation, selection of text and choosing translate option via right-click dropdown menu, selection of text and clicking the Google Translate icon in the top-right section of the browser, and translating entire page by clicking on that same icon without any text being selected.

Since the processing of the translation service is done directly on the Google cloud servers, the actual Google Translation extension that is installed into the Chrome browser can be lightweight and streamlined for fast use. In addition to the default English language, the UI of this app is translated to an additional 52 languages. With over 200 million daily users from all around the world and 13 years of experience in handling and expanding capabilities of machine translation, It represents one of the most popular, accurate, and easy-to-use text translation services available on Chrome browsers. While the full web app supports advanced features such as speech translation, image translation, document translation, handwritten translation, and more, this Chrome extension is focused only on the translation of the selected text. The service has built-in support for real-time translation of over 100 languages and can offer automatic language detection of selected text. This includes the ability to highlight any text in your currently active webpage and offer direct translation in a small popup window, select a phrase or a sentence for a translation in a floating window near the Google Translate icon on top of the web browser, translation of the entire webpage or a streamlined way to open the selected text in the full web app. Used popularly as a web app and mobile app, this Chrome browser extension takes the most commonly used features available in the full Google Translate suite of tools and makes the most used ones available with a click of the mouse button. Google Translate for Mac is an award-winning free multilingual machine translation service created by Google.

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