I see we just got a nice upgrade of mx-viewer, so adapted it to solve an annoyance. I need quick access to Google Translate, and hate going through a bunch of steps within Firefox when I am on a site.
So this is what I did:
--Right-click Panel > Panel > Add New Items: select Launcher
--Right-click Launcher > Properties, click on little pencil
--Dialog box pops up, filled it out as in the attached image. The cut-off command is this:
I, too, use machine translation often. I have had a lot of success with a newcomer called DeepL which appeared on the Webs in Sept of 2017. It's from the German company that gave is Linguee, the AI thesaurus and dictionary I enjoy. The available language list is quite small (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Polish), but the translations (on IT topics, at least) are often surprisingly fluid and nuanced, especially German. I think the Interlingua is English, so translations to and from English are probably the most accurate. You can click on a word in either the to or from passages and it will allow you to pick from Linguee references to further refine the translation of a sentence. This is handy if you're concerned that a word may not convey exactly what you mean or another word/phrase translates more reliably in both directions.
very nice idea, thank you jerry. i took it one step further and run this through firejail.
firejail mx-viewer "url" (of course firejail must be installed first)