# Links broken when using translation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-broken-when-using-translation/322120
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 18, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-broken-when-using-translation/322120 "2024-08-18T00:01:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![CycleBai](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cyclebai/32/441727_2.png) [@CycleBai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CycleBai)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-broken-when-using-translation/322120/1 "2024-08-18T00:01:40Z")

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> _I am not a native English speaker, this post may contain grammatical errors, etc. If you find any, please feel free to edit it, thank you._

When I try to use the built-in translation function of Google Chrome on a website built by Discourse, nothing happens when I click on any link in the page.  
I noticed that the address bar changes, but the page content is not modified.

Is this a known bug? Is there any way to fix it?

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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-broken-when-using-translation/322120/2 "2024-08-18T01:46:20Z")

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I cannot reproduce this. The links don’t get translated, and they work fine.

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### Author: ![CycleBai](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cyclebai/32/441727_2.png) [@CycleBai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CycleBai)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-broken-when-using-translation/322120/3 "2024-08-18T02:47:43Z")

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Sorry, forgot to add, try clicking on the recommended link below, it doesn’t redirect, but the post title and browser address bar change.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/6/a/f6a4cffcf52ad6ba39b0b28ee618d0e45e21e4ae.png)

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### Author: ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-broken-when-using-translation/322120/4 "2024-08-18T04:52:03Z")

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Hello 👋

The built in browser translator is pretty broken with Ember. Better to not use the page translator.

> [@Broken page: (Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node')](https://meta.discourse.org/t/broken-page-failed-to-execute-removechild-on-node/275044):
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> Hello wave I’ve catched this error in console. It appears when I translate the page with the browser built-in Google Translator. Console error Uncaught DOMException: Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node. Repro I changed Discourse language to e.g. French and translate it with built-in Google Translator to English. Without Google Translate no error appears but when I turn on Google translator, af…