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		andor on June 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome added an annoying translation feature Recently Google has added a built-in translation feature to Chrome that has some usability issues. Since these issues haven’t been fixed in the past couple of releases, they might be here to stay. Built-in Google Translate was added in Chrome 4.1 in 2010: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.de/2010/03/windows-beta...

drdaeman on June 15, 2014 [–]

The feature's not new but it was redesigned relatively recently. Previously it had showed a notification bar, not that popup dialog.

Old UI: http://docs.oseems.com/_media/general/application/chrome/chr...

New UI: https://user.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screenshot-6.png

In my opinion, new version is prettier, but more annoying as it partially obscures webpage content.

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