Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
Huaci Puts Translation in the Right-Click Menu
An open-source Chrome extension that translates selected text, page elements, images, and pasted passages into Chinese in place.
- For
- Chrome users reading foreign-language pages
- Worth noticing
- The project reports a single fetch call and no server, analytics, telemetry, advertising, or third-party SDKs.
Field notes
The extension exposes four workflows through the browser’s context menu: selection, page-element, image, and standalone panel translation. The homepage specifies behaviors such as remembering element rules by domain, splitting long images before OCR, and supporting more than ten target languages. It also identifies a local-storage API-key model and says the code has one outbound fetch location, while installation currently depends on loading an unpacked extension in Chrome developer mode.
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