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Chrome 4.1 Brings Translate to Everyone
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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The Chrome releases blog yesterday announced an update to Chrome 4, bringing the latest stable version to 4.1. While 4.1 has been out in beta for some time, everyone now will have the features on Chrome 4.1. What’s interesting to note is that now, like Chrome browser 5, Chrome 4.1 has Google translate built in. Prior to these features being inherent to the browser itself, you had to have the Google Translate Extension in order to use it.
What’s great about the translate feature is that you can also set the languages that it does not translate for. As an example, if you speak other languages than English, you can set the translate feature to be disabled if you so choose. This can be done in Options when you click on the “Under the Hood” tab and go to the” Change font and language settings” button.
I’ve written a more extensive post on how the translation feature works in Chrome browser, and you can check it out right here. This was a post I did that originally was for Chrome 5, but it fits the topic just the same.
There are a few other things that Chrome 4.1 brings to the table. Just like Chrome 5, content settings have been expanded. This means that users have more control over what they do or do not see while browsing the web. This gives you the ability to set exceptions for certain sites, as well as the ability to turn off cookies, image downloads and the ability to turn off JavaScript. You can do all this in Options when you click on the “Content settings” button in the “Under the Hood” tab.
If you already have Chrome 4, you will be updated to 4.1 via an automatic update. If you’re not using Chrome, go here. It will detect you operating system and allow you to download the appropriate version. So try it. You know you want to.
Google Announces Chrome 4.1 With Translation, Enhanced Privacy
Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
In an effort get as many people as possible starting to use their new integrated translation feature that is already a part of Chrome 5, Google has announced Chrome 4.1 Beta. Chrome 4 is a more stable release than Chrome 5, which is a version better suited for developers who are working on extensions and other miscellansoues features of the browser.
As previously mentioned here, future versions of Chrome will not require you to have to download a separate Google Translate extension, rather, when you are at a site that is not in your normal language for browsing you will be prompted for a translation. Check out the official video of the feature:
Additionally, there are some enhanced privacy features in 4.1. When pressing the Content Settings button under the Privacy header you get a good deal of options on how you would like Chrome to handle cookies for various sites. You can check out 4.1 here, by downloading the Beta Channel release. If you are already in the Beta Channel, you don’t have to do anything, as Chrome will update itself.
