Google on Tuesday introduced new language translation and privacy tools for its Chrome browser. Chrome now includes a beta feature that will instantly translate Web pages that are in a language different from your preferred language setting.
“Chrome will display a prompt asking if you'd like the page to be translated for you using Google Translate," Wieland Holfelder, engineering director at Google Munich, wrote in a blog post.
The idea is to “help make all the world's information universally acceptable in an easy, frictionless way," he wrote.
Google has also added a new “Privacy" section of Chrome's options dialog. From there, you can control how cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups are handled on a site-by-site basis. Want to allow cookies for one Web site, but not another? No problem.
The new features are available via the Chrome beta release. Those already running the beta channel will be updated automatically, and those on the stable version will be updated in the coming weeks.
Also today, Google launched a faster version of its “new window" option in Gmail. The feature lets you pop out windows in order to multi-task, but until now, it has been rather slow.
“Today, we're rolling out a change that will fix this (reload your account to make sure you get this change). Now, popping out a window is much, much faster. No more 'Loading...' progress bar," Google said in a separate blog post.
“Chrome will display a prompt asking if you'd like the page to be translated for you using Google Translate," Wieland Holfelder, engineering director at Google Munich, wrote in a blog post.
The idea is to “help make all the world's information universally acceptable in an easy, frictionless way," he wrote.
Google has also added a new “Privacy" section of Chrome's options dialog. From there, you can control how cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups are handled on a site-by-site basis. Want to allow cookies for one Web site, but not another? No problem.
The new features are available via the Chrome beta release. Those already running the beta channel will be updated automatically, and those on the stable version will be updated in the coming weeks.
Also today, Google launched a faster version of its “new window" option in Gmail. The feature lets you pop out windows in order to multi-task, but until now, it has been rather slow.
“Today, we're rolling out a change that will fix this (reload your account to make sure you get this change). Now, popping out a window is much, much faster. No more 'Loading...' progress bar," Google said in a separate blog post.
