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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5368 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 8 24 September 2011 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used to use a Firefox add-on last year called Globefish Instant Translator & Expression Checker to compare the frequency of different phrases on the Internet. This came in very handy when I was unsure of a certain expression or wanted to check for errors.
So I installed the latest version today (1.3.2), which says it should work with the latest version of Firefox (e.g. I use Firefox 6.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.7), but now find to my dismay that the phrase frequency checker doesn't seem to work anymore. Instead, the sections that usually display a colourful bar and the number of entries found in Google or Yahoo simply say "0 hits". Is anyone else experiencing the same problem, or perhaps I've missed out something simple, and someone could point me in the right direction here? Also...just on the off chance...does anyone know of any other multilingual phrase checkers online? This would be an extremely useful tool to have whilst writing in various target languages. Edited by Teango on 24 September 2011 at 10:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5132 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 2 of 8 25 September 2011 at 1:21am | IP Logged | ||
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It doesn't seem to work on Windows machines either. In the meantime, here are five websites that you might find helpful:
Netspeak (finds collocations, language-agnostic) Linguee (searchable bilingual corpus for several language combinations) MyMemory (the world's largest Translation Memory) WWW Search Interfaces for Translators Google Insights for Search Edited by Doitsujin on 27 September 2011 at 11:25am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5368 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 3 of 8 25 September 2011 at 3:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the links!
I checked Globefish again today using an old laptop running Windows XP 2002 and Firefox 3.6.22 (which definitely worked last time I used it on this machine). I then tried reinstalling earlier versions of the add-on, one by one, but they all presented the same problem. Therefore I'm thinking now, having excluded the browser and operating system, that this might have something more to do with the Google and Yahoo APIs. Perhaps they've recently blocked this add-on or the code libraries have changed somehow. If anyone can shed any further light on this, it would be a huge help? Edited by Teango on 25 September 2011 at 3:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5678 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 4 of 8 25 September 2011 at 4:06pm | IP Logged | ||
I can't really shed any further light except to confirm that it does not work. I am using the current version of Firefox on a Windows 7 computer. I found it quite useful and would like it to work again. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5368 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 5 of 8 30 September 2011 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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...and now the Babelfish add-on has stopped working too (since the latest update of Firefox 7.0). Arghh! Edited by Teango on 30 September 2011 at 9:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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Firefix add-ons are a bit primadonna. I updated Firefox the other day and now the google toobar doesn't work anymore.
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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5132 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 7 of 8 01 October 2011 at 5:38am | IP Logged | ||
It still works with Firefox 7.0 and Globefish 1.3.2 on Windows machines. There might be something wrong with the Firefox Mac OS X build. If it still doesn't work, you could try other Google Translate based add-ons. For example FoxLingo, which is not exactly my favorite, because it wants to install a toolbar and number of buttons by default. However, some people actually seem to prefer it over Globefish. Or you could install Google Chrome with the either the Franker or the MyDictionary add-on. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5132 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 8 of 8 07 January 2012 at 11:02am | IP Logged | ||
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The developers finally updated the Globefish add-on, which I didn't notice because the Firefox updater didn't pick up the update automatically.
I had to manually uninstall the old version and install Globefish 1.4.1, which works fine. For some reason the developers chose to hide the expression usage counter functionality in the latest version. In order to access it, you'll need to click the icon next to the gear icon in the lower right corner of the Globefish dialog box. Edited by Doitsujin on 07 January 2012 at 12:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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