Greek Translator

Ελληνική περίληψη κάτο.

Greek Translator is a Firefox extension that helps to translate web texts from Greek to English and vice versa.

• It translates words from Greek to English and English to Greek using the in.gr dictionary.
• It translates sentences from Greek to English and English to Greek using Altavista Babelfish.
• It looks up words in Wikipedia: the Greek version if the selection contains Greek, and otherwise the English version.
• It translates incoming email messages in Thunderbird from English to Greek and Greek to English.

Just select a Greek or English word or text on a web page, click it with the right mouse button, and select Translate <word> to English|Greek with In.gr or Translate <text> to English|Greek with Babelfish or Lookup <word> in the English|Greek Wikipedia. A new page will be opened in a new tab with the result.

Greek Translator is the new name for the InTranslate extension. Please remove InTranslate before you install Greek Translator.

Greek Translator is currently maintained by Onno Zweers.

You need the Firefox browser version 1.0 until 3.0a to use this extension. Current version 2.0 will do nicely.

1. If InTranslate (the predecessor of Greek Translator) is installed, remove it. This can be done at Tools → Extensions.
2. Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2649/.
3. Click Install now.
4. Restart Firefox.

You need Thunderbird 1.5 or higher.

1. Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2649/.
2. Right-click Install now and select Save link as.... Save the .xpi file on your desktop.
3. Open Thunderbird and select Tools → Extensions → Install.
4. Select the .xpi file, click Open, then Install now.
5. Restart Firefox.

This is the latest beta version for Firefox 3.0.

I’m working on it; <a href=”http://www.followthatpage.com/referrer“>check this page</a> to know when it’s ready.

This is the latest beta version for Firefox 3 beta.

Latest stable version for Firefox 2.x. Officially released at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2649/ on September 8, 2006.

• Works in Thunderbird too!
• Italian, German and Spanish interfaces added.

Officially released at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2649/ on June 19 2006.

• Portuguese Portuguese added, copied from Brazilian Portuguese.
• Prepared for Firefox version 2.0.

Released on may 31, 2006.

• This version has menu-labels in English, Greek, Dutch, Danish, Brazilian Portuguese, French.
• Name and program ID change. This extension is now officially released at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2649/.

May 4, 2006.

• If more than one word is selected, Altavista’s Babelfish is used for the translation of the phrase.
• Capitals or no longer converted to lower case letters, and tonos (ά) and dialytica (ϊ) are preserved.
• Wikipedia search: if the selected word is Greek, the Greek Wikipedia is queried instead of the English. This is decided by searching the selected text for Greek letters: [α-ωΑ-Ωήύόώάέί]. If any of these are found, the whole selection is assumed Greek.
• In the context menu, the selected text was displayed up to a maxmimum length of 10 characters. This is now 25 characters.
• Menu item labels have been changed:
  “InTranslate” → “Translate using In.gr”
  “Wiki” → “Wikipedia” or, if Greek text is selected, “Βικιπαίδεια”.
• Trailing spaces are removed from the selected text. (By double clicking a word, the trailing space is selected by default.)

May 1, 2006. New pages are now opened in foreground tabs instead of background tabs. The menu item InTrans is renamed to InTranslate.

April 12, 2006. Bugfix: the two sigma’s were mixed up. Also: compatible Firefox versions increased to 1.5.0.*.

April 10, 2006. Greek to English translation repaired. First version maintained by Onno Zweers.

Original version created by mpeimpiii. See History.

• mpeimpiii - created the extension.
• Gijs Kruitbosch - answered a question on Usenet.
• Bradley Chapman alias TheOneKEA - answered a question on Usenet.
• Thomas Karaferis, my brother-in-law - helped translate the extension and part of this page to Greek.
• Goofy - French translation.
• Wolfgangmixer - German translation.
• Chuzo - Spanish translation.
• MatrixIsAllOver - Italian translation.
• AlleyKat - Danish translation.
• Rodrigo Bergmann Laurindo - Brazilian Portugese translation.
• Rui Mesquita Queiros, my collegue - Portugese Portugese translation.
• Robert Marshall - tested and approved Greek Translator 0.6* for the official Mozilla addons website.
• Olive - tested and approved version 0.7.
• Jaap Haitsma - created the DictionarySearch extension, a good extension programming example for Greek Translator.
• ... and me.

Would you like to help? You can, by translating six small strings of text to your language. Go to Babelzilla and register yourself as a translator.

Alternatively, you can save the extension to your harddisk, open it with 7-zip, open the file chrome\locale\en-US\mystrings.properties, translate it to your language and send it to me.

InTranslate was originally created by mpeimpiii. His version 0.1a however had a small problem: Greek to English translations didn’t work. The cause: Greek text was offered to the In.gr dictionary in UTF-8 encoding. But In.gr doesn’t want UTF-8, it wants Windows-1253 encoded Greek text. So I wrote some code that converts Greek letters directly from UTF-8 to Windows-1253 URI-encoded.

The original (broken) version is still available at addons.mozilla.org, and since I don’t have access to this page, and I don’t know how to get in touch with mpeimpiii, and I didn’t get any response from the Mozilla.org webmaster, I published my own version on my own site, and posted the address on addons.mozilla.org.

As of version 0.6, I decided to change the name for two reasons: “In” in the name InTranslate refers to the in.gr dictionary, but now it uses also Babelfish and Wikipedia, so the name didn’t really suit the function very well. The second reason: still no word from mpeimpiii, and I couldn’t upload the extension to addons.mozilla.org with the same name. I changed the name to Greek Translator. On June 10 2006, Greek Translator was tested, approved and published at the Mozilla Addons site.

I am closely monitoring different online translation systems, to see if they are worth incorporating in Greek Translator. So far, In.gr is far superior when it comes to single words, and Altavista Babelfish seems to be the best for phrases. If you discover a nice translation system that gives good results for Greek ↔ any other language, please let me know. I am considering Worldlingo for translating whole pages (because Babelfish has problems with translating whole pages). I may also add a menu option for translating from Greek to your browser language, that is: if you use the French Firefox, it would translate from Greek to French or vice versa.

If you have any other nice suggestion for Greek Translator, please feel free to contact me.

This piece of software comes without any warranty. Use it at your own risk. I believe it is safe. If you don’t trust it, save the file on your disk, open it with WinZip or better with 7-zip, and have a look at the sources.

Please uninstall InTranslate before you install Greek Translator. They are not meant to be installed both.

If you have other problems, please let me know, so that I can further improve the extension. Please mention your Firefox version and language, the version of the extension, and the page on which you tested it.

• Translatum (Spiros Doikas) has created a similar translator plugin for Firefox http://www.translatum.gr/dics/mozilla-plugin.htm. It too, uses the dictionary of In.gr. Additionally, he has created a bookmarklet that does the same for Internet Explorer. (I haven’t tried it though.)
• Leslie Franke made a list of the best Firefox Extensions. He made some excellent choices; for example, he chose IE View Lite and Adblock Plus, the improved versions of IE View and Adblock. (Don’t bother to install the Spellbound spell checker though. Firefox 2.0 has built in-spell checking.)
• Here is my own list of favorite Firefox extensions.
• Follow That Page is my latest product. It checks your favorite web pages every day, and sends you an email when a page has changed. It comes also with a handy Firefox extension.

Το Greek Translator είναι μια επέκταση του Firefox, που μπορεί να μεταφράσει λέξεις από τα ελληνικά στα αγγλικά και αγγλικά στα ελληνικά. Χρησιμοποιεί τα λεξικά του in.gr και του Altavista Babelfish.

Επιλέξτε μια ελληνική ή αγγλική λέξη ή ένα κείμενο ιστοσελίδας, πατήστε δεξί κλικ με το ποντίκι και επιλέξτε “Μετάφραση ‘λέξη’ στα Ελληνικά/Αγγλικά με το In.gr/Babelfish” ή “Έρευνα ‘λέξη’ στην Ελληνική/Αγγλική Wikipedia”. Μια νέα σελίδα θα ανοίξει σε μια νέα ετικέτα (tab) με το αποτέλεσμα.

Μπορείτε να το βρείτε εδώ.