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Still wondering about "translate to Dutch" on context menu

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bjkeefe replied 17 ঘন্টাসমূহ আগে
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I asked this about four months ago, and did not get any answer, so I am asking again. Sorry for the repetition.

Here is the problem: when I highlight a short passage of text (~3-4 words), and right-click, the context menu always shows the translation entry as "Translate to Dutch". (See first image.) If I accept that, the input language is assumed to be English, so I actually have to change both drop-downs. (See second image.)

If the passage is long enough (> ~4-5 words), the context menu will show "Translate to English", which is what I want, and as an aside, Firefox is almost always correct in detecting the input language.

I can understand it being hard to detect the input language from a short phrase, but why does the output language default to Dutch? And is there a way to change this behavior?

Thanks.

I asked this about four months ago, and did not get any answer, so I am asking again. Sorry for the repetition. Here is the problem: when I highlight a short passage of text (~3-4 words), and right-click, the context menu always shows the translation entry as "Translate to Dutch". (See first image.) If I accept that, the input language is assumed to be English, so I actually have to change both drop-downs. (See second image.) If the passage is long enough (> ~4-5 words), the context menu will show "Translate to English", which is what I want, and as an aside, Firefox is almost always correct in detecting the input language. I can understand it being hard to detect the input language from a short phrase, but why does the output language default to Dutch? And is there a way to change this behavior? Thanks.
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Agent virtuel
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Bonjour

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1535724

Maybe, you can try, reset the preference, browser.translations.mostRecentTargetLanguages

1 - Go to configuration editor https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox 2 - Enter a search term browser.translations.mostRecentTargetLanguages and click on the Reset button.

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bjkeefe
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This seems to have had the proper effect. Thank you.

For others: After I did the reset, I highlighted the same phrase. This time there was no default output language shown in the context menu, but it was shown as English in the pop-up translation window. I selected Spanish for the input language and it worked.

I next went and found another short phrase. In Spanish, again as it happened. But the important point is that this time, when I selected, the context menu showed "Translate to English". Same with just the single "Bonjour" above.

Thanks again.

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