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Status: Fixed
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Closed: Jun 2018
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug

Blocked on:
issue 600874
issue 854693



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Reports That Chrome's Translate Has Stopped Working

Project Member Reported by craigtumblison@chromium.org, Apr 10 2018

Issue description

Labels: Needs-Triage-M65
Cc: groby@chromium.org
+Groby - is this the same as  crbug.com/826174 ?

I can reproduce the sites that users mentioned. When I visit:
ok.ru
world.taobao.com,

I am not offered a translate option/bubble/icon in the Omnibox. I can still right click to press "Translate to English", and then the icon appears in the Omnibox. I am on: 65.0.3325.181
Cc: krajshree@chromium.org
Labels: Triaged-ET Needs-Feedback
Unable to reproduce the issue on Win-10 and mac 10.13.3 using chrome reported version #65.0.3325.181 and latest canary #67.0.3393.4.

Attached a screen cast for reference.

Following are the steps followed to reproduce the issue.
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1. Navigated to http://world.taobao.com/
2. Observed that translate bubble appeared in the Omnibox with "options" and "translate" button as expected.

craigtumblison@ - Could you please check the attached screen cast and please let us know if anything missed from our end.

Thanks...!!
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@krajshree - Thanks for attempting to reproduce. That seems to be the same steps we're seeing reported, you didn't miss anything.

@Melody Can you confirm that you're still seeing it? Maybe this was a server-side hiccup.
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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Apr 11 2018

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding the requester to the cc list.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Adding needs feedback label again as per C#4 to get confirmation if this is resolved from reporter's end as this could be rooted to someserver issue as well.

Thanks...!!
Exactly the same issue with my setup.

Version 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Windows 10   Build 17134.48

All other translate options work apart form the icon in the address bar - doe snot display. 
Cc: nyerramilli@chromium.org rbasuvula@chromium.org xiaoche...@chromium.org
 Issue 826174  has been merged into this issue.
Labels: -Pri-3 Pri-2
Summary: Reports That Chrome's Translate Has Stopped Working (was: Reports That Chrome's Auto-Translate Has Stopped Working)
I can't reproduce this on the sites mentioned which lead me to think it's the Ranker at work suppressing UIs when we think the user will ignore them. 

Melody, Craig and others, could you have users do the following and report back whether this works:
1. Go to chrome://flags. 
2. Search for "Enforce TranslateRanker decisions"
3. Switch from "Default" to "Disabled".
4. Restart your browser.

Anthony - can we investigate whether the model is performing too aggressively in the wild? Also, can we prioritize the fix for crbug.com/600874 (showing the Translate icon in the Omnibar when we suppress the UI using the Ranker?)

PS: I change the bug summary because it was misleading. The Translate feature in Chrome is not called auto-translate (which can be confused with when a user opts into automatic translations).
Owner: anthonyvd@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
Blockedon: 600874
#9: Thanks for the troubleshooting steps! I've reached out on the community threads to share those instructions and asked users to follow up:

- https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/CqmSU9FCZW4
- https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/T-pujawfPus

I'll loop back here if any do.

Also, thanks for fixing the title.
Enforce TranslateRanker disable worked for Anirudh here 5/22
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/1epGG-FFl1Y

Hey all,

Looping back to share that so far, we've had mixed reports re: disabling the flag.

One user here said it did fix the behavior:
- https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/1epGG-FFl1Y/7SLSEhSbDAAJ

One user here says it did not fix the behavior:
- https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/CqmSU9FCZW4/NuvFGudCDAAJ

I'll follow up if we see more.

Thanks!
Hey all,

One additional report that the flag *did* solve the problem here:
- https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/CqmSU9FCZW4/pVLb602tAQAJ

Cheers!
Hey all,

Following up with an additional report that the flag worked:
- https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/CqmSU9FCZW4/XrBjMDx8AAAJ

Thanks!
I have tried pages in Japanese, German, Russian.

I have set and rest the standard advanced settings in Chrome and reset Chrome to defailt.

No page translation option appears.

Following the above suggestion I reset the TransalateRanker flag several times.  With ""Enforce TranslateRanker decisions"" set to default, on and off the same behaviour is seen... no translation option.

Also, there is this when trying an update:

An error occurred while checking for updates: Update check failed to start (error code 4: 0x80070005 -- system level).
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Version 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)


http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/kiew-russischer-journalist-arkady-babchenko-in-der-ukraine-erschossen-a-1210217.html

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE,_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

http://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3176477
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Tested the links I posted above, using Beta 67, I still have no translation option on the URL bar, and yes the flags are set to translate pages not in the default language. English in my case.

Google Chrome is up to date
Version 67.0.3396.62 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/kiew-russischer-journalist-arkady-babchenko-in-der-ukraine-erschossen-a-1210217.html

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE,_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

http://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3176477
Cc: -krajshree@chromium.org yyushkina@chromium.org
To c17/18 (steelhoof@gmail.com): you need to set the flag to Disabled, not Default. 

Craig - thanks so much for following up here. For the single person who this did not work for, can you double check she set the flag to "Disabled"? 

Anthony - after we fix 600874, we should 1) retrain the Ranker, and 2) add an escape hatch in settings (user shouldn't need to mess with flags).

Cc: krajshree@chromium.org
I'm one of those for whom the flag change did not work I tried all
settings I tried reboots we tried all kinds of things and it still
continues. I am hopeful that the beta will convert to a version 67 real
soon and that I can just say goodbye to the problem.
At c21: do you mean Chrome Beta or Stable? Beta has been on 67 since end of April and stable 67 is spinning out this week. Your beta should definitely be on 67. 

After you update to 67, check back in here if you continue to not see the Translate UI.
yyushkina@ - Just reached out to the community user it didn't work for. Will let you know if I hear back!
With the TranslateRanker flag set to disabled, I now have an option to translate beta 68


Version 68.0.3440.17 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Version 67 With TranslateRanker flag set to disabled, still no option to translate.

Version 67.0.3396.79 (Official Build) (64-bit)
@c25: Hmm. Then that's a separate issue in 67. Can you got to chrome://settings/languages, click on the down arrow to show all settings, take a screenshot and attach it here? Additionally, can you go to chrome://translate-internals and do the same?
@c25: also, can you still right click to Translate?
There is no option on the URL window to translate.  With a Right-Click in the page there is an option to translate.  This was an option I had never before noted.

Will this be the option going forward?  I ask because the old flag in the URL window was useful, easy to find, and offered an option to "Always Translate" which is wonderful when visiting pages in the same language repeatedly.

German page:

https://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Webs/BKin/DE/AngelaMerkel/angela_merkel_node.html;jsessionid=80A8F8AF6B3606E0C4DFAB76C2B1C18E.s2t2
Version 67.0.3396.79 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Chrome 67 Languages settings.PNG
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With the Chrome 68 Beta the URL window offers an option to translate as well as the old popup behavior asking if a translation is desired.

This is not currently seen in my Chrome 67

Version 68.0.3440.17 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Version 67.0.3396.79 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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If you click on that "x" next to german in chrome://translate-internals, you should get your translations from German back.

And yes, the right click to translate option has always been available. It's handy when a page is not recognized to be in a different language.
Cc: anthonyvd@chromium.org lukasza@chromium.org vamshi.kommuri@chromium.org
 Issue 836084  has been merged into this issue.
 Issue 838137  has been merged into this issue.
Blockedon: 854693
Status: Fixed (was: Assigned)
We've identified that the Ranker was misbehaving and turned it off server side. This issue should now be fixed.

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