You could install Ubiquity, which is a Firefox “experimental” plugin.

Once you have it installed, you simply Alt+A (Select All) the page, run the hotkey, and the text is computer-translated and actually put back into place where the russian (or whatever language) text was before. Granted, it’s not much better than Google Translate, but it’s a start, and you can simply browse the page and go around; no jumping back and forth between Google and your site.

Yeah, Ubiquity is what you want.

http://translate.google.com/translate_buttons

Drag the link for English to your bookmarks toolbar. Click the button when you are on the page and you are done. I made a little video of how to do it. Video

edit :: That video is NSFW.. I forgot that I was recording audio too. I will switch it out in a bit.

yeah the problem with google translator is that it doesn’t work on sites that have logins and accounts

i can go to a russian website homepage in google translator… enter my username and password. but then the next pages (my account) shows up in russian again.

re-pasting that “logged-in” page into google translators results in errors.

So yeah i really need the computer to translate on what my browser already loaded. i’m gonna try ubiquity… (but i’m not a big fan of firefox.)

Well, that doesn’t work as practical. It still involves selecting text (not to mention buttons) and translating it.

There should be a plugin or something to translate-what-you-see right?

@Inofaith that’s probably your best bet.

I’m afraid you won’t have much choice besides Firefox because no browser is as extensible and extended as Firefox. A search on translation extensions provides several candidates that seem to do what you want.

You could try Clay Tablet Technology. I think they are doing that.