It’s been fixed just now 
Took google a fair while – for all their resources.
Yes; I read about that. The problem is that there is no clear reason why that should fix it, and it doesn’t fix it for everybody by any means.
You lose all passwords, etc, no? And if the installation is synced to other Chrome installations they will get trashed also.
This crazy solution should not be necessary, even if it works.
I fixed it on my Mac by completely trashing my install (including deleting all the caches / pref files etc) – basically zapped the entire Chrome folder.
Clean install, and all working.
Has anyone heard of anything being fixed on this?
Seems to be widely known e.g.
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/25735369?hl=en
It may be that websites which don’t work (all of them, IME) are ones containing even one word of the target language. But as I say it works in Chrome in win10.
Translate does work in Chrome Version 79.0.3945.130 (Official Build) (64-bit) under win10. Curious?
But same version of Chrome under win7-64 doesn’t translate.
Must be PHP… a very dodgy language
I’m on a Mac, so they’ve even managed to make it a cross-platform cockup. I suspect the issue is server side rather than local…
Wow thanks – every day is a school day!
I hope google fix this asap.
Another data point: it also stopped working at my office. Also win7-64, same chrome version. No PC config change. Definitely a google cockup.
You can’t exactly rank stuff, but you can filter out old crap.
Ha!
Version 79.0.3945.117 (Official Build) (64-bit)
I find it works in some cases if I use the google translate plug-in, select some text on the page, click on the plug-in icon, this displays the translation of the swiped text, and then click on TRANSLATE THIS PAGE.
Incidentally, I find it hilarious that google presents search results from 5-10 years back, which cannot possibly be relevant. Is there some way to date-rank them?
