Safari extensions limited

I have exactly the same problem. The translate extension was removed after I updated Safari couple of days back. This makes Safari useless specially if you are browsing sites in a language other than your preferred one !

I noticed this myself, especially once I landed in Hong Kong and in Tokyo this past week, and was trying to read pages written in Mandarin and Japanese, but the extension disappeared upon updating the OS.

As per usual, Boneheaded Apple keeps changing the goalposts, always believing they know what's best for us (the consumer and the ones who sustain and justify their high stock valuation)!!! A very useful extension removed for no reason, other than to either (1) monetize the situation by forcing us to pay for some translation extension, to (2) control what we desire to do, even if that means making things majorly inconvenient for us, or (3) just to upset us (because we want to use a Google product that provides a service that they don't and won't)!!!

SMDH!!!

I have the same problem. I have stuck with Safari for so long and defended it for ages in response to people who always insisted Chrome was so much better. Today I have to admit that Safari is pathetically useless since Apple has removed this feature. Switching to Chrome now.

I am also disappointed of the reduced functionality of Safari with the upgrade. Bean counters must have taken over the helm at Apple. They have decided to monetize the Apple Experience. It shows a company which has lost its vision and has begun riding on its legacy.

I am really surprised that Apple doesn't have it's own in-house translation options... I mean Facebook actually offers translation based on the fact it know I speak English primarily. If another language is displayed it has a (show translation) and while it may not be great, I can get the concept. Same with it's other company instagram. they've had this for years. I'm just a nerd that loves to search books from centuries ago, that have images of what things looked like before WWI to see artwork that wasn't destroyed.

It sounds entitled to say "whaaa translate it for me" but we aren't. We are saying we want what he had back. Using translator actually was teaching me different languages. It's the first time in existence of mankind that you can read a book in some tiny far off place in the world, that may be the last of it's kind and even better you might get to read it without a biased translation "explaining" the author. just you (with a somewhat twisted version) at the point of the authors pen. It made me feel like India Jones... and for a small-business-owner-work-from-home-mom-of-kindergartner-and-terrrrrrrible-but-funny-two-year-old-wife-of-basketball-coach THAT IS SAYING A LOT.

You call it safari. a non English word origin for an adventures journey. without translate, it feels like safari park. a controlled environment with planned interaction. - I do love apple, I know you can do this and better than anyone else, and with the perfect name. - thank you!!

Going through the exact same problem, and after spending quite a few hours trying to download and find appropriate translate extensions for Safari, I gave up!

Using Google Chome now. Transferred all my passwords and bookmarks there!!

Hopefully will never need to use Safari anymore :D

No one here knows Apple's plans for the future.

You can let them know what you'd like to see here:

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discusduo wrote:

I am also disappointed of the reduced functionality of Safari with the upgrade. Bean counters must have taken over the helm at Apple.

More likely security experts.

Is there any hope that they will release a new free extension for translation?

Done. Chrome.Firefox. Anything else.

Planet Apple…catering to the 1% now…not us.

Agree completely.. switching to chrome i guess then... what a waste of all of our collective time