Reviews for DeepL Translate: Reading & writing translator
DeepL Translate: Reading & writing translator by DeepL
Review by Cy "kkm" K'Nelson
Rated 1 out of 5
by Cy "kkm" K'Nelson, 4 months agoThe extension functionality is A-OK, solid 5/5. It's the implementation that kills it usefulness, and barely scrapes 0/5. I could go into the negative score numbers, but boy, where I would've stopped then...
I had to uninstall the extension because it throws its trash around all over the browser. It injects a humongous CSS stylesheet, 115KB(!) in size, into *every single open tab*, regardless of DeepL translation being ever used. I estimated that I used the selection translation pop-up at about one in every 500 to 1000 pages. This is a truly humongous waste of resources. The stylesheet contains 734 selectors, 2999 property settings and two @media width breakpoints. You'd have a hard time convincing me that this is a bare minimum necessary to display a simple pop-up box…
And then, in any case, a sensibly written extension would have delayed loading its CSS until it is actually needed, i.e. until it actually displays something. And load it into a sandbox, so that it's gone when the pop-up is closed: come think of it, DOM shadow roots were invented for a reason, and scoping resources in time was one of the two major ones. Now, the funny part, albeit not ha-ha funny: the extension does in fact use a shadow root for the pop-up, and… yes, you guessed it, loads another copy of its juggernaut CSS sheet into it. Why it also stuffs all this useless CSS everywhere it only can is beyond me, but loading the CPU with the browser's failing to match the extra 750 selectors every time the layout is recomputed—and "responsive" layouts on dynamically changing pages have to be deeply recomputed often!—isn't something I can use. I have better ways to waste my CPU than this extension.
As soon as the issue is fixed, I'm upgrading my rating to 5/5 not thinking twice. I hope that this is just an oversight, a bad design decision that could be soon reassessed and undone.
I had to uninstall the extension because it throws its trash around all over the browser. It injects a humongous CSS stylesheet, 115KB(!) in size, into *every single open tab*, regardless of DeepL translation being ever used. I estimated that I used the selection translation pop-up at about one in every 500 to 1000 pages. This is a truly humongous waste of resources. The stylesheet contains 734 selectors, 2999 property settings and two @media width breakpoints. You'd have a hard time convincing me that this is a bare minimum necessary to display a simple pop-up box…
And then, in any case, a sensibly written extension would have delayed loading its CSS until it is actually needed, i.e. until it actually displays something. And load it into a sandbox, so that it's gone when the pop-up is closed: come think of it, DOM shadow roots were invented for a reason, and scoping resources in time was one of the two major ones. Now, the funny part, albeit not ha-ha funny: the extension does in fact use a shadow root for the pop-up, and… yes, you guessed it, loads another copy of its juggernaut CSS sheet into it. Why it also stuffs all this useless CSS everywhere it only can is beyond me, but loading the CPU with the browser's failing to match the extra 750 selectors every time the layout is recomputed—and "responsive" layouts on dynamically changing pages have to be deeply recomputed often!—isn't something I can use. I have better ways to waste my CPU than this extension.
As soon as the issue is fixed, I'm upgrading my rating to 5/5 not thinking twice. I hope that this is just an oversight, a bad design decision that could be soon reassessed and undone.
467 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by jeremie, 17 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TomMcD, 5 days agoLove the option of translating selected text, whether sentences or individual words. Helpful not only for understanding a website but for learning the language!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18427918, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13380461, 5 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by jado, 6 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12253758, 7 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ryan McLaughlin, 7 days agoAdd-on works well when it works. -1 star as getting the typing translation feature to work on reddit is difficult and often just doesn't work. -1 star for no full page translation, needing to select everything manually is a pain.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mike x 2, 8 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18425684, 8 days agoEdit:
Thank you for your feedback. I had exactly the assumption that this (Change from Twitter.com to X.com) was the cause. I'll leave the 1 star rating so you can read my edit. Next week I will change it to 5 stars. As I said, that was just to get your attention. Because basically I am very happy with Deepl. ;-)
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Seit ein paar Tagen wird auf "X" das Deepl-Symbol bei den Posts nicht mehr automatisch angezeigt. Man muss den Text erst markieren damit das Deepl-Icon erscheint. Ich benutze Firefox auf Windows 11.
Ich bewerte bewusst mit nur 1 Stern damit die Entwickler es beachten und ich vielleicht hier eine Rückmeldung bekomme.
For a few days now, the Deepl icon has no longer been displayed automatically on “X” posts. You first have to select the text for the Deepl icon to appear. I use Firefox on Windows 11.
I deliberately rate with only 1 star so that the developers pay attention to it and I might get some feedback here.Developer response
posted 6 days agoThis was a result of the change last week from Twitter.com to X.com. We have a fix in development and hope to release it shortly. - Rated 5 out of 5by nallenalle, 9 days agothe best until now. deepL helps me to make my work efficiently and stress free.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alisher, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Szeryf, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16407640, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ayla, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ihor, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by François-Michel L'Heureux, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pedrosso, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cecily, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DimCooL, 18 days agoGood extension with good translation quality. Works quickly and easily. This message was translated with it x)
- Rated 5 out of 5by colbasyatina, 18 days agoЛучший переводчик. Но хотелось бы иметь тёмную тему и возможность переводить выделенный текст через кнопку в меню, которое появляется нажатием правой кнопки мыши по выделенному тексту.