Opera usually is more efficient with resources than Chrome...
There's no point Opera adding translator plugin/service.. as it would most likely use Google anyway, or Yandex etc.
Not to mention that such a plugin in Chrome is very dubious from privacy point of view - and most likely Google harvests the data for marketing purposes as they do read every mail in Gmail accounts.
Get this open source translator:
TransOver
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/transover/aggiiclaiamajehmlfpkjmlbadmkledi
https://github.com/artemave/translate_onhover
Hover, click or select to translate (with text-to-speech). Translator.
Translate word (or text selection) from any language to the language of your choice by pointing or clicking at it.
Also you can (enable in options):
text-to-speech
reverse translate: from your own language to the language of your choice
type and translate in a popup
copy translation to clipboard
SECURITY EXPLAINED
"Your data on all websites":
TransOver needs to be able to read any word on a page - "Your data ..." - in order to translate it. On any website you want it working - "... on all websites".
"Your tabs and browsing activity":
Required for language autodetect, so that TransOver knows what language to translate from (details http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-detectLanguage).
CHANGE LOG
1.42
Change google translate API url. The old one seems to be getting blocked more and more.
1.41
Fix regression. T&T popup wasn't showing translation.
1.40
Optionally show "translated from" language in a popup. Because source langage autodetect often makes funny choices and then people blame TransOver for incorrect/missing translations. This will hopefully act as a hint to go and change "translate from" option from autodetect to a set language.
1.39
Add "copy translation" feature
1.38
Fix errors in developer console
1.37
Add option to translate on whitelisted sites only (credit
https://github.com/yamanq/translate_onhover)
1.36
Fix "reverse translate to" dropdown not being fully populated
1.35
Fix TTS looping when key is pressed and held
1.34
Smaller and crispier font
1.33
if site is added to "don't translate on these sites", don't inject template elements. So that they don't show up in OWA new email form
1.32
attempt to fix template content being appended to contenteditable body (OWA new email form)
1.31
fix certain sites (e.g. facebook, youtube) being subtly broken for some users. By not using html imports, since Chrome appears to be buggy in that respect.
1.30
fix selection translation appearing in the corner
fix "letter-spacing" parent style leaking into the popup
dismiss popup on scroll
1.29
new icon
slower tts
inner refactoring: iframes -> web components
1.28
use Speech Synthesis API for text-to-speech
1.27
add "from" to type-and-translate popup
don't use chrome.tts. Like ever again
1.26
use chrome.tts api
1.25
get back "Translate from" option
1.24
fix exception showing up in js console
1.23
fix showing only first sentence of selection translation
1.22
fix hotkey setup
less ugly "type and translate" popup
better way to figure out unsuccessful translation
1.21
support new google api
1.20
configurable tts key
1.19
rollback z-index increase - previous value was the correct maximum
1.18
max z-index so that popup always stays on top
1.17
revert "cache regexp" optimization
1.16
don't use chrome.tts
1.15
count apostrophes as word characters. So that d'abord, don't, etc. get proper translation.
fix tts
1.14
skip editable divs (fixes google+, youtube, etc. comments)
1.13
redirect to options after install
1.12
fix tts for "type and translate"
1.11
fix occasional exception in chrome js console
1.10
fix xss security issue
1.9
allow disabling reverse translate if "translate from" is chosen
1.8
add option to choose show popup trigger (previously, 'alt' was the only option)
1.7
fix large selection translation not getting proper height
1.6
fix broken single word translation
1.5
only show type-and-translate popup in top frame (so that bits of it do not show up in facebook, g+ buttons)
upgrade jquery to get rid of source map exception in dev console
1.4
fix broken tts for multiword translation
better "don't translate clicking links"
1.3
don't translate when clicking on links
1.2
track source langage properly
1.1
add google analytics
1.0
better popup implementation (possibly fixes wrong popup size)
smaller dependencies
0.44
fix "choose target lang" broken link
0.43
fix missing icons
0.42
improve popup layout in g+
smaller package (so it installs faster)
0.41
fix tts
0.40
fix broken popup layout on latest chrome and chromium
0.39
fixed major brokenness caused by google api changes
add option to only translate selection when alt pressed
add reverse translate when 'autodetect from word' is chosen
0.38
translate all frames
0.37
make 'Oops.. no translation' optional
0.36
better ignore editable divs
0.35
fix tts not working for type and translate mode
0.34
ignore gmail and g+ editable divs
0.33
button for 'type and translate' popup
popup more resilient to current page style (been moved to iframe)
0.32
set text direction right-to-left for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu and Yiddish
save options on Enter
0.31
only offer to choose language once (per page load)
0.30
change default autodetect method from locale to word
0.29
add Esperanto
0.28
translate in a popup
0.27
fix broken translation for text that contains regex special characters: ), $, etc.
0.26
bring back 'translate from' option
0.25
reverse translate
reliable source language autodetect; as a result, getting rid of manual source language option
'do not translate on sites' option is less confusing
0.24
change 'translated only if X pressed' from 'shift' to 'alt'
0.23
make Text-To-Speech optional and disabled by default
0.22
expose 'translate from' option
redesign options page to hide advanced options behind separate link
0.21
text to speech on ctrl press
0.20
jquery updated to 1.7.1
0.19
fix adjustment for parent font-size going not quite as planned
0.18
fix translating wrong word (not the one behind cursor) in rare cases (that was due to * style font-size being different from element font-size)
hit between the lines confuses javascript getElementFromPosisition, resulting in visibly broken html after translation. Fixed.
0.17
ignore mouse 'noise' movements (so popup does not flicker)
enable 'delay' option only when 'translate by point at word' and not 'shift only'
fixed unescaped html. again.
0.16
'translate by click' option added
fixed performance issue on pages with large text nodes
0.12
selection translation popup no longer shows up anywhere on the page (#17)
0.11
updated available languages
0.10
gotten rid of calls to Google Translate API (since it is deprecated)
0.9
proper cased (as opposed to always lower case) translation (#16)
make sure translation popup doesn't get out of the window (#14)
0.8
more prominent translation popup (#13)
no longer attempts to translate selection in text inputs (#12)
0.7
translation no longer changes styles of underlying text (#11). Thanks to Dmitriy Kostikov for pointing in the right direction
0.6
no more explicit 'translate from' option - autodetect is good enough. Also fixes #8
fixed: erases closing tag on html/xml listing (#6)
fixed: part of speech is now bold on every page (#9)
0.5
text selection translate (#4)
fixed: drops text selection (#7)
0.4
report translation fail. As opposed to simply not showing anything to user
hide translation on page scroll
prompt user to choose target language, in case it isn't set. Useful for new installs
source language is now a configurable option (defaults to 'autodetect')
translation delay is now configurable option
remove "don't translate from these languages" option
gotten rid of explicit api call to detect language. Turns out dictionary api can do it itself.
popup fadeIn/fadeOut. As opposed to hide/show
0.3
reduced delay before translation start
