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
The Google Chrome browser has an built in option to translate a webpage to another language.
However if you want to translate part of a webpage or selected text, you can install the Google Translate extension from Google which allows you to highlight text and click on the translate icon (or right click) to translate the selected text.
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
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.