Translation popups are overly invasive
Reported by
m...@vouchr.com,
May 12 2018
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Issue description
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Visit any page in a foreign language that Chrome will offer to translate
What is the expected behavior?
What went wrong?
Having two popups ("Translating", "Translated") that block UI interaction on the page is an extremely poor user experience. When navigating a site in a foreign language that you want translated this means dealing with the language bar on every single page load. There is zero point or value in showing these popups more than once per site and I would argue that with the addition of the translate button in the address bar there is no value in showing them more than once, period.
Did this work before? N/A
Chrome version: 66.0.3359.139 Channel: n/a
OS Version: OS X 10.13.4
Flash Version:
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May 15 2018
Able to reproduce the issue on chrome reported version 66.0.3359.139 and latest stable# 66.0.3359.170 using Windows-10, Mac 10.13.3 and Ubuntu 14.04 and on latest chrome# 68.0.3430.0. As the issue is seen from M-60(60.0.3112.0), hence considering this issue as Non-Regression and marking it as Untriaged. Thanks!
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May 20 2018
We already do a number of things to minimize the annoyance factor for users who don't need translations, including suppressing UIs automatically if users ignore them too many times. We also do not show the UI when a user follows a link from an already translated page (and auto-translating those) + the UI disappears on click anywhere on the page. If you still fidn yourself seeing translate UI's you don't need, you can disable the translate pop-ups for a particular language or site from the translate options menu. You can also disable the translate pop-ups for all languages by going to chrome://settings/languages. In all of those cases, you'll still be able to trigger a translation by right-clicking on a page and choosing Translate.
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May 21 2018
I don't feel that suggesting uses just "turn it off" is a valid resolution. If you actually try browsing a site in a foreign language, especially over a slower connection, you find yourself fighting with the bar constantly. My main issue is that it utterly breaks usability (and accessibility) until you pay attention to it. I navigate mostly by keyboard and the popups steal focus from the page. The popups are useful *once*, but I am sometimes literally spending more time dismissing them than I am browsing the site. Fighting with dozens of them, sometimes 4+ per page (redirects) is an utterly broken user experience. |
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Comment 1 by krajshree@chromium.org
, May 14 2018