https://github.com/Emdek/otter/issues/112
To be honest, this particular feature was THE most prominent thing that put me off when I tried out Chrome for a day at its version 1. This feature made my mind go like: What? The same annoying popup as in FF when it nags about missing plugins? What if I am in the process of learning a new language by reading foreign pages (which is what I in fact do)? Now, how to turn this thing off?
Indeed, I could not find a button to eliminate that annoying popup bar, and there were other aspects about the product that made it an annoyance for me rather than a useful tool, so I uninstalled Chrome - after using it for a day or so at version 1 - and never looked back.
In contrast, Opera's translation menu is an absolutely fabulous concept:
- translate any text selected on a webpage selected with precision
- translate between any pair of languages from among a huge choice
- the choice of pairs of languages choosable with precision by means of right-click menu
- the choice of pairs of languages is configurable just like any other search engines - in fact, the feature is an integral part of search engines
FF's popup toolbar nagging about missing plugins could be hacked away (should have been an obvious button there). I did not find a way to kill Chrome's popup toolbar nagging about translation. Anyway, such popup toolbars have no justification for their existence in the first place.
I'm in complete agreement, and have nothing to add. That pop-up dialog reminds me a bit of that annoying paper clip of yore.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbw9mY3_7A[/video]