How to Disable a Language in Firefox With a Hotkey
Many Mozilla Firefox users access websites written in unfamiliar languages. In many cases, users copy and paste site addresses or text into an online translator to view the information in a different language. The Quick Translator Firefox add-on by Igor Gladkov allows Firefox users to translate more than 50 languages with a hotkey. Although the add-on doesn’t actually change the original Web page, it makes it seem like it has disabled the language and replaced it with the language needed. With this tool, you can use hotkeys to translate selected text, manually entered text and an entire page.
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Instructions
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Go to the Mozilla Firefox Add-ons page at Addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/.
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Type “Quick Translator” in the Search for Add-ons field and click the green and white “Search” button.
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Roll your cursor over “Quick Translator” in the results list to reveal the “+ | Add to Firefox” button. Click the button.
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Click “Install Now” in the Software Installation window that appears and then, when prompted, click “Restart Now.” If you don’t receive a prompt to restart Firefox, close the browser and re-open it to update Firefox with the add-on.
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Click “Tools” on the Menu bar and select “Add-ons” on the drop-down menu to see all of the add-ons you’ve added to your version of the Firefox browser.
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Select “Extensions” on the left side of the screen and scroll down the list of add-ons until you find Quick Translator.
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Click “More…” and review the information about the version of Quick Translator you added to your version of Firefox. When you’re finished, click “Options” to open the Quick Translator's Preferences window.
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Select the “Languages” tab to see the more than 50 languages available for translation. Select a language in the Available Languages column, click “Ctrl” and then select additional languages to use for translation as desired. After you’ve selected the languages you want, click the “ > “ button to add them to the Selected Languages column and then click “OK.”
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Click the “General” tab and review the hotkeys in the Hotkeys section that you can use to disable one language and enable another. As of this publication, select a passage of text on a Web page with your cursor and then use “Ctrl,” “Alt” and “T” to translate it into another language. Use “Ctrl,” “Alt” and “P” for an entire page.
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Go to a website that has a language you want to translate. Use a Quick Translator hotkey by pressing the key or keys needed on your computer keyboard. The original text will update with the translation.
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Tips & Warnings
To change the hotkeys, right-click the Quick Translator icon at the bottom-right corner of the Firefox screen and select “Preferences…” on the pop-up menu. Click a hotkey field in the Hotkeys section, enter a new single key or combination of keys for the hotkey, and then click “OK.”
If by “disable a language” you’re referring to a dictionary language, you want to disable a language so that a dictionary only looks up words using a specific language reference. Click “Tools,” “Add-ons” and “Extensions.” Locate the dictionary and review the developer’s notes to determine if a hotkey solution is available for the specific add-on product you’re using.
Quick Translator doesn’t always translate all of the text on a page.
