How do I turn OFF the website translation?
I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox, and I noticed a lot of websites are displayed in a very poor translation into my language. I had it off in Chrome. I don't have any addon which would do it. In the settings, the preferred language to display websites is US English. Still, I'd say 20% of content is "translated" into my language.
Opaite Mbohovái (2)
Unlike Google Chrome, Firefox doesn't come with any builtin translation services. If your pages are being translated automatically, you likely have any add-on installed on Firefox that is doing this for you. In that case, it's just a matter of disabling or removing the add-on.
Hope this helps.
Note that some websites may check for location via an IP lookup and automatically serve you a web page in your local language when available. For instance google does this. There is usually not much you can do in this case apart from looking for a button/link to switch to English or to the international version of the website. Such choices are stored in a cookie, so you would have to keep this cookie via a cookie allow exception.
You can try these steps in case of issues with web pages:
You can reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.
- hold down the Shift key and left-click the Reload button
- press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
- press "Command + Shift + R" (Mac)
Clear the Cache and remove the Cookies for websites that cause problems via the "3-bar" Firefox menu button (Options/Preferences).
"Remove the Cookies" for websites that cause problems:
- Options/Preferences -> Privacy & Security
Cookies and Site Data -> Manage Data
"Clear the Cache":
- Options/Preferences -> Privacy & Security
Cookies and Site Data -> Clear Data -> Cached Web Content: Clear
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- switch to the DEFAULT theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes
- do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Safe Mode start window