Sometimes, when looking for Microsoft documentation via a search engine, you may be presented with a link leading to a localized documentation page from Microsoft. Quality of translation varies a lot, but, as English speaker, you may choose to not deal with localization at all, and always look for English pages.
msdn-delocalizer is a browser (Chrome, Firefox) extension that will automatically delocalize Microsoft documentation pages, such as MSDN, docs.microsoft.com, or learn.microsoft.com.
- yarn 1.22 or newer
- ImageMagick 7.0.11-12 or newer (only if you need to prepare a new extension icon)
To compile the plugin into the build/dest directory, and pack the ZIP file to build/web-ext directory, use the following shell commands:
$ yarn install
$ yarn run build$ yarn testIf you have prepared a new extension icon, then run the following shell command to add it to the package:
$ yarn run icon- Chrome: to install msdn-delocalizer to your Chrome in the developer mode, load the
build/destdirectory as the unpacked extension source, and refresh it after every rebuild. - Firefox:
- enter the Add-ons and Themes page
- click the Debug Add-ons action from the page gear menu
- Load Temporary Add-on, navigate to the
build/web-ext/msdn-delocalizer-<VERSION>.zipfile