Translator for Edge
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We’ve detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. Please type in the characters you see below to continue translating
"We've detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. Please type in the characters you see below to continue translating."
Why do I keep getting this message? Make it go away
58 votesHi,
Thanks for your message on the translator forum and I’m sorry to read this is happening. Please help us understand what is going wrong:
Which of our translator services are you using?
Can you please share a screenshot?Thanks,
Gwenda
Microsoft Translator Team -
It should be a built-in translator in microsoft Edge and translate on demand.
It should be a built-in translator in microsoft Edge and translate on demand.
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"Higher than normal traffic" captcha is broken. Not correctly identifying letters matched to image.
"Higher than normal traffic" captcha is broken. Not correctly identifying letters matched to image.
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STOP TELLING ME I'M USING IT TOO MUCH, ASKING ME TO TYPE IN A SELECTION OF UNREADABLE LETTERS AND THEN TELLING ME I'M INCORRECT!!!!
STOP TELLING ME I'M USING IT TOO MUCH, ASKING ME TO TYPE IN A SELECTION OF UNREADABLE LETTERS AND THEN TELLING ME I'M INCORRECT!!!!
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Side by Side windows with original and translated text
Provide a way to view original and translated texte si de by side
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STOP PUTTING UP "HIGHER THAN NORMAL TRAFFIC" NOTIFICATIONS!!!!
STOP PUTTING UP "HIGHER THAN NORMAL TRAFFIC" NOTIFICATIONS!!!!
THEY ARE REALLY ANNOYING!
Some of us in this world come from one country and live in another country. We have to deal with languages that need translating all the time.
We don't want our workload to be ever bigger because we have to keep typinf in barely readable codes because every new tab we open comes up with the message about higher than normal traffic. Sometimes we have to open many tabs.if this is a problem for you then maybe either stop offering the translating service (this never happens on…
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get rid of this ''We've detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. Please type in the characters you see below to co
get rid of ''We've detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. Please type in the characters you see below to continue translating.'' google translator doesn't behave like this that's y I switched to chrome instead of edge
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We’ve detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. FIX THIS ISSUE ASAP.....
We’ve detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. FIX THIS ISSUE ASAP.....
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We've detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. Please type in the characters you see below to continue translating
We've detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. Please type in the characters you see below to continue translating.
This never works for me- always tells me I have entered the wrong characters
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Shortcut key
translate when hold Alt (or othe key) and selected text.
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Undo the translated word
after click a word to translate to other language, click the selected word to undo to original word. Click it again back to the translated word. so that can learn the new word.
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YOU ARE ******* CRAZY MICRSOFT
You don't want us to use the page translation unless we solve a code puzzle to prove that we are not a robot. But the alphabetic/numerical code DOESNT COMPUTE. We try 10 times to type up the code, guessing if its a Capital Letter or a lower case one. In the end we get angry - and we are already Office 365 and Azure paying clients plus other MS products. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US ? We rely on Bing and the translation from Chinese to English. You better make life easier for us. This has been an…
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Cancel
You should provide option for cancel translating
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We've detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. Please type in the characters you see below to continue translating
Always showing"We've detected higher than normal traffic from your computer or network. Please type in the characters you see below to continue translating." But no matter how many times you type in the characters it never works.
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Translator - Stop requiring user to repeatedly enter security code. Cannot view page of interest due to ongoing interference.
MS Translator interfering with viewing page(s)
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Inbuilt Microsoft Translator into Windows 10 mobile like Google chrome for Android
Add Microsoft translator inbuilt into Windows 10 mobile Microsoft edge - browser.
Check Google chrome in Android - without extension ( It auto translate other language website pahes into Phone's default language )13 votes -
Stop asking me to enter Characters that you don't recognise when you Tell me there is a higher than normal traffic. Back to Google!!
Read the bloody feedback!
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Please add the ' Cancel text translation' option.
After I select a sentence and press ' Text Translation ' I can translate the sentence. However, there is no option to cancel the translation. Please add the ' Cancel text ' option.
12 votes
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