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Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)
A deep dive into Google Translate (and other browser extensions) interference breaking React and other web apps.
This interference often manifest as crashes caused by the DOM element's native ` removeChild` method, resulting in errors like ` NotFoundError: Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node.`, but it affects a lot more. The snippet below will search for an element with the id "translateme" and replace all direct ` TextNode` children with ` FontElement`s similar to how Google Translate operates. Picture: Caption: AutocardAnywhere showing a Magic: the Gathering card for a random piece of text on WoWAnalyzer I want to stress that I do not think the team behind Google Translate deserves any blame for the issues.
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