Google Chrome - Add Ons How To Customize Translation

Though this is the most useful feature, it will be embarrassing if you dont have an idea of how to customize translation settings in Chrome.

In this article we will explain how to setup translation in Google Chrome so that you can set your default language and switch on or off automatic translation.

It will be titles as Translate this page and asks whether you would like to translate or not.

The translation popup will appear from the Google translate icon at the right end of address bar as shown in the below picture.

Now the popup will show as Translated with the option to revert back the translation to show the webpage in original language.

Never translate the language of the webpage to browsers language.

Change languages use this option to change the translation language instantly on the screen.

You can always check the box Always Translate to enable auto translation for the set page and translation languages.

If you have wrongly selected this option, there are no site specific options available for you to enable the translation again.

You can change the browsers language to any language of your choice so that the translation will be done in your favorite language.

You can see the option Offer to translate pages that arent in a language you read is also enabled by default.

This option result in throwing the translation popup when you open webpages other than English.

In most cases, you have a native language for which you dont need translation.

However, you may still need auto translation for all other foreign languages.

In this case, follow these instructions to toggle the translation on or off for specific language.

This is not required when you have this option enabled for all the languages.

Ensure you have disabled this option for specific language, so that Chrome will not offer translation.

This is useful when you read webpages in your mother tongue which not English.

Google Chrome - Add Ons Windows 10 And MacOS

Unfortunately, the languages section works differently in Windows 10 and macOS.

Google Chrome - Add Ons Mac Which Does

The above screenshots are from Mac which does not support changing the browser language.

Below is how it looks on Windows where you have an additional option to make any specific language as the default Chrome language.

You need to add languages in Mac to customize the translation settings, while on Windows 10 you can simply change the browser language itself.

Google Chrome For Mac - Add Ons