Introduction

This section seeks to describe the options desktop users can use to translate text from one language on a web page or email.

Google Chrome for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

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For Mozilla Firefox, the Google Translator plugin by Andy Portmen works well to translate highlighted text using the Google Translate service or entire pages via the icon it installs on the menu bar. This tool can also be used by using the contextual menus via the mouse. There is also a really great plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird called Quick Translator that works really well at translating highlighted text using Google Translate. It can be found here, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/quick-translator/ or if using Thunderbird by searching for it either under extensions or add-ons.

Microsoft Outlook

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