Gmail – Annoying translation popups on hovering English text! How to get rid of them

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Since very recently I start getting popups when hovering English text showing me "Original text" as if it was translated. However, the original was in English, so this makes no sense!

What is worse, the feature remains enabled in Email Composer, making it even more of annoyance.

Any insight of what is going on here and how to solve it?

Best Answer

This is the "offer to translate" feature in Chrome browser. Many people do not like the popups. The simplest solution is to disable translation in chrome://settings/languages

If you want to use translation but not the popups, one solution is to install the Google Translate extension from the Chrome Web Store. It should override Chrome's built-in translator.