Translate buttons don't work anymore
Miladin Miladinoski
work anymore, because those nutheads at yahoo now redirect from
http://babelfish.altavista.com to http://babelfish.yahoo.com .
So I know that I should edit the search.ini file in /usr/share/opera but I
don't know how should I edit the links to point to every language
available (I use almost all of them).
Thank you,
Miladin
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Rijk van Geijtenbeek
<NoS...@for.me.today>:
> I noticed that the translate buttons in the Opera's right click menu
> don't work anymore, because those nutheads at yahoo now redirect from
> http://babelfish.altavista.com to http://babelfish.yahoo.com .
>
> So I know that I should edit the search.ini file in /usr/share/opera but
> I don't know how should I edit the links to point to every language
> available (I use almost all of them).
Is this related to the beta version of Opera? The default search.ini in
both 9.2x and 9.5b2 contains entries that redirect translations via
Opera's servers, which should prevent problems with users having to change
links because services change their URL.
These URLs look like this:
URL=http://redir.opera.com/translation/?text=%s&from=en&to=fr
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Miladin Miladinoski
Yes, this is related to the latest snapshot of Opera for UNIX, more
specifically:
Version -- 9.50 Beta 2
Build -- 1962
Platform -- Linux
System -- i686, 2.6.24-16-generic
Qt library -- 4.2.2
Java -- Java Runtime Environment installed
Test it yourself on this newsgroup (if you are using Opera for it) -
select some text, right click on it and select: Translate > English to
French and see for yourself that it doesn't work.
Regards,
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
<NoS...@for.me.today>:
> Test it yourself on this newsgroup
Examinez-le vous-même sur ce newsgroup
Seems to work fine for me :)
Miladin Miladinoski
<ri...@opera.invalid.removethis.com> wrote:
> Seems to work fine for me :)
Well, I'm sorry, but, I guess not -> http://i28.tinypic.com/166j3ue.png :|
pilou055
<NoS...@for.me.today> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 18:16:39 +0200, Rijk van Geijtenbeek
> <ri...@opera.invalid.removethis.com> wrote:
>
>> Seems to work fine for me :)
>
> Well, I'm sorry, but, I guess not -> http://i28.tinypic.com/166j3ue.png
> :|
>
I confirm, i got same screen
I'm on Vista and i think it's for every os versions
With French language pack :
- opera 9.24 -> http://babelfish.altavista.com with fields completed for
translation
- opera 9.5b2 (9945) -> http://babelfish.yahoo.com with all fields empty
i make a site preference http://babelfish.altavista.com mask as
mozila and work fine
but if now i choose english language pack for opera, i have again
http://babelfish.yahoo.com with all fields empty
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David W. Hodgins
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 18:16:39 +0200, Rijk van Geijtenbeek
> <ri...@opera.invalid.removethis.com> wrote:
>
>> Seems to work fine for me :)
>
> Well, I'm sorry, but, I guess not -> http://i28.tinypic.com/166j3ue.png :|
Looks like yahoo is in the process of rolling out messed up redirection
changes to babelfish.altavista.com, with a geographic component in deciding
where to redirect to, and possibly who to redirect.
When I saw your first article, I tried it, and like Rijk, it worked for me.
I didn't bother replying, as I then saw Rijk's reply.
Now I'm getting redirected to ca.babelfish.yahoo.com, and although the
text to be translated is still in the address bar, it no longer gets
put into the form, and auto translated.
Copy & pasting the text into the for works, although unlike altavista,
the text does not get put into the address bar.
Looks like it's time to find a different translator server, or figure
out how to correct for the changes yahoo made.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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