Standby Translator

Privacy-focused translation using local Ollama LLM models

Standby Translator is a privacy-focused translation extension for people who want local AI translation while browsing. Select text on a web page, right-click, and choose "Translate with Standby" to see a clean translation popup near the selection. You can also click the extension icon to paste text directly into a quick translation panel. Key features: - Local translation through your own Ollama endpoint - Right-click translation for selected page text - Quick paste translation from the extension icon - Separate word and sentence prompts - Word details including translation, part of speech, definition, pronunciation, and sample usage when your model provides them - Clean sentence translations without extra clutter - Force re-translate when you want a fresh result from a different or stronger model - Local translation cache for faster repeated lookups - Recent single-word cache view and Markdown word-card export - Configurable source/target languages, prompts, model, timeout, and sampling parameters Privacy notes: Standby Translator does not use analytics, ads, or developer-controlled translation servers. Text is sent only to the Ollama endpoint you configure. Settings, prompts, and cached translations are stored locally in Chrome storage. Setup note: You need Ollama running locally. For browser-extension requests, start Ollama with CORS enabled: ```bash OLLAMA_ORIGINS="*" ollama serve ``` Then install a model, for example: ```bash ollama pull llama3 ```