As a workaround why not bookmark the translator, you can even do that with a variety of autodetect or specific language combinations to suit your work.

• e.g. http://translate.google.com/#auto/de/

It works for me when using Firefox including Aurora and including the site you linked to directly. google.de (I do not use the German page normally).

Try clearing the site cookies and maybe the Firefox cache. See also

• Clear cookies and site data in Firefox_delete-cookies-for-a-single-site
• How to clear the Firefox cache
• Websites look wrong or appear differently than they should

Hi John99, thanks for the answer, the problem is completely different, as google stopped to serve firefox with the toolbar, and these missing gadgets are part of the google toolbar. It could somehow be rooted but nothing for me! Nevertheless thanks a lot!! JWSponsor

Sorry if I misunderstood your question.

I thought you were probably using the bar at the top that has drop downs one of which then offers google translate.

I find using bookmarks for translate handy as I can set the language option from that. Using auto detect all the time or the one the site is written in is not always appropriate, if for instance something has multiple languages within one thread.

I guess you were looking at the Firefox homepage. (You may Navigate to it by pasting into the addressbar about:home and clicking the green arrowhead ) Rather than opening google.de directly.

You are no doubt already aware you will be able to add google translate as one of your Firefox homepages if that helps.

• How to set the home page

Google toolbar is long gone see

• Google Toolbar is no longer compatible with Firefox - Here are some alternatives