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My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and it
works fine.

Code for bookmarklet is:

javascript:window.open('https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u='
+ encodeURIComponent(location.href));

Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?
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On 1/27/2026 11:19 PM, John C. wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and it
works fine.
....
Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

Google Translate has been around for many years.

Google Translate - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate>
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On 1/27/2026 11:49 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Google Translate - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate>

BTW....

Learning is also a kind of searching. A.I. engines might all be search
engines in disguise.
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"John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and it
works fine.

Code for bookmarklet is:

javascript:window.open('https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u='
+ encodeURIComponent(location.href));

Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

Another method is to use keywords in bookmarks in Firefox. Add a
bookmark to Google Translate whose URL is:

https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%s

%s is the placeholder for a string. Add a keyword to the bookmark, like
gt (for Google Translate). When you hit a web page you want translated,
copy the URL, and paste into the address bar of the web browser as:

gt <URLstring>

I had LOTS of sites added as bookmarks using %s with keywords I could
use in the address bar. You do a search at a website, take the URL from
the address bar, strip off the string argument to replace with %s, and
use that as the URL in the bookmark. I had an entire Search folder in bookmarks with these for easy searching from the address bar.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox
"How to use keywords with bookmarks"
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On 26/01/27 07:49 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 1/27/2026 11:19 PM, John C. wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website
translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and it
works fine.
....
Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

Google Translate has been around for many years.

Google Translate - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate>

Of course I know that. What hasn't been around for years is Copilot's
code for the bookmarklet which I provided.
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On 1/28/2026 9:28 PM, John C. wrote:

Of course I know that. What hasn't been around for years is Copilot's
code for the bookmarklet which I provided.

And Copilot may not have the decades old data collected by Google Search
and other services! :)
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"John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:

Man-wai Chang wrote:

John C. wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website
translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and
it works fine.
....
Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

Google Translate has been around for many years.

Google Translate - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate>

Of course I know that. What hasn't been around for years is Copilot's
code for the bookmarklet which I provided.

Bookmarklets have been around ever since Javascript and bookmarks were supported in web browsers, so maybe around 30 years, or more. For
example, for websites that disable right-clicking on the web doc which
is blocked by using Javascript, you can define a bookmarklet that tries
to reenable right-clicking.

The biggest hurdle for non-Javascript programmer types, which is the
vast majority of users, is finding mention of the Javascript code to
specify as a bookmarklet. Copilot might help, but remember AI is not
always correct, so you have to verify what it claims, like test hundreds
of websites with the bookmarklet to verify a claim the bookmarklet
works. Another problem with AI generated results is they rarely cite
the sources, and instead pretend they divined the answer. If the AI
used ancient sources, the information it purports as its own could be
out of date, no longer valid, or wrong today.

In a search, and ignoring any AI generated results, I found, for
example:

javascript:( function() { var url = "https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=" + location.href; window.location.assign(url); } ) ();
from
https://gist.github.com/illusionfield/db576c73a103f37e0044
(dated Oct 2021)

javascript: location.href = 'https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en&u=' + escape(location.href);
from
https://ouoholly.github.io/bookmarklet/content/GoogleTranslate.html

While the above are shown as one-liners, you can spread the code across multiple lines. The requirement is the statement ends with a semi-colon
for a terminator. The above are just some examples of YOU deciding
which result hits to investigate, not some AI purporting to aggregate
the information from sources it does not cite. And just like with each
author claiming a bookmarklet works, the one by AI may cease later.

Bookmarklets don't always work at all websites. The one you gave might
work most of the time, the ones above might work, and others might work,
but users will note Google changes something, like the URL or its
arguments, that makes the bookmarklet unusable. What if Google changes
the subdomain, or path, or arguments?
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:28:53 -0800, John C. wrote:

On 26/01/27 07:49 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 1/27/2026 11:19 PM, John C. wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website
translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and it
works fine.
....
Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

Google Translate has been around for many years.

Google Translate - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate>

Of course I know that. What hasn't been around for years is Copilot's
code for the bookmarklet which I provided.

Has anyone mentioned http://www.bing.com/translator/
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On 2026-01-27 16:19, John C. wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and it
works fine.

Code for bookmarklet is:

javascript:window.open('https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u='
+ encodeURIComponent(location.href));

Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

There are addons to do it. I use "TWP - Translate Web Pages". Can use
several translation services.
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"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

John C. wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website
translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and it
works fine.

Code for bookmarklet is:

javascript:window.open('https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href));

Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

There are addons to do it. I use "TWP - Translate Web Pages". Can use several translation services.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web/

No mention of DeepL despite there is a free service tier. Just Google,
Bing or Yandex.
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On 2026-01-28 23:19, VanguardLH wrote:

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

John C. wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website
translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and it
works fine.

Code for bookmarklet is:

javascript:window.open('https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href));

Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

There are addons to do it. I use "TWP - Translate Web Pages". Can use
several translation services.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web/

No mention of DeepL despite there is a free service tier. Just Google,
Bing or Yandex.

I saw a mention of DeepL somewhere in the settings today, but can not
find it again. No way in the settings to choose translation service,
except a button with an icon for three services.

DeepL has a problem, though: the gratis translator is limited to 1500
words at a time.

Ah, found the reference, in the release notes:

Fixed:
Google translate does not work when specifying original language
Translation with DeepL in new tab does not work
Updated interface localizations
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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

John C. wrote:

Of course I know that. What hasn't been around for years is Copilot's
code for the bookmarklet which I provided.

And Copilot may not have the decades old data collected by Google Search
and other services! :)

And what did I say at the end of my O.P.?

"Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?"

What I do is to clear my cache and wipe my browsing history frequently,
even while the browser is still open.
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On 26/01/28 08:08 AM, VanguardLH wrote:

"John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:

Man-wai Chang wrote:

John C. wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website
translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and
it works fine.
....
Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

Google Translate has been around for many years.

Google Translate - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate>

Of course I know that. What hasn't been around for years is Copilot's
code for the bookmarklet which I provided.

Bookmarklets have been around ever since Javascript and bookmarks were supported in web browsers, so maybe around 30 years, or more. For
example, for websites that disable right-clicking on the web doc which
is blocked by using Javascript, you can define a bookmarklet that tries
to reenable right-clicking.

The biggest hurdle for non-Javascript programmer types, which is the
vast majority of users, is finding mention of the Javascript code to
specify as a bookmarklet. Copilot might help, but remember AI is not
always correct, so you have to verify what it claims, like test hundreds
of websites with the bookmarklet to verify a claim the bookmarklet
works. Another problem with AI generated results is they rarely cite
the sources, and instead pretend they divined the answer. If the AI
used ancient sources, the information it purports as its own could be
out of date, no longer valid, or wrong today.

In a search, and ignoring any AI generated results, I found, for
example:

javascript:( function() { var url = "https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=" + location.href; window.location.assign(url); } ) ();
from
https://gist.github.com/illusionfield/db576c73a103f37e0044
(dated Oct 2021)

javascript: location.href = 'https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en&u=' + escape(location.href);
from
https://ouoholly.github.io/bookmarklet/content/GoogleTranslate.html

While the above are shown as one-liners, you can spread the code across multiple lines. The requirement is the statement ends with a semi-colon
for a terminator. The above are just some examples of YOU deciding
which result hits to investigate, not some AI purporting to aggregate
the information from sources it does not cite. And just like with each author claiming a bookmarklet works, the one by AI may cease later.

Bookmarklets don't always work at all websites. The one you gave might
work most of the time, the ones above might work, and others might work,
but users will note Google changes something, like the URL or its
arguments, that makes the bookmarklet unusable. What if Google changes
the subdomain, or path, or arguments?

Of COURSE my bookmarklet doesn't work on every website that's
non-English. How could it? However, it still works often enough that
it's of use for me. And it works far more often than not.

I'm guessing that Firefox's built in translation feature ALSO doesn't
work all the time either.
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On 26/01/28 09:29 AM, Vic wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:28:53 -0800, John C. wrote:

On 26/01/27 07:49 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 1/27/2026 11:19 PM, John C. wrote:

My computer's processor is too old to run Firefox's built-in website
translation. I asked an AI to write a bookmarklet to do the job and it >>>> works fine.
....
Yeah, it's Google, but whatyagonnado?

Google Translate has been around for many years.

Google Translate - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate>

Of course I know that. What hasn't been around for years is Copilot's
code for the bookmarklet which I provided.

Has anyone mentioned http://www.bing.com/translator/

That's a good translator, but from what I've seen you can't put a link
in the "translate from" field and have it open a version of that link's
website that's been translated to English.
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On 1/29/2026 7:59 PM, John C. wrote:

What I do is to clear my cache and wipe my browsing history frequently,
even while the browser is still open.

That wipes LOCAL data, not those collected and logged by REMOTE servers.
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On 26/01/29 06:53 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 1/29/2026 7:59 PM, John C. wrote:

What I do is to clear my cache and wipe my browsing history frequently,
even while the browser is still open.

That wipes LOCAL data, not those collected and logged by REMOTE servers.

Oh well. What kind of information are they going to collect that will
hurt me?

Also, what do YOU suggest instead?
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