Reviews for Right Click Wiktionary
Right Click Wiktionary by losnappas
Review by mrazr
Rated 5 out of 5
by mrazr, 5 years agoquite cool. Wiktionary helps with spanish->english translation where google translate fails miserably and so this addon is super handy.
23 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dashakol, a year agoExcellent! The text can be copied from this one but not with "Contextual Wiktionary" FF v.99
- Rated 5 out of 5by tuannguyenlimited, 2 years agoI have to login to rate for this addon. Easy and useful. Thank team.
- Rated 5 out of 5by M45661, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16895101, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16489233, 4 years agoThanks a lot for this dictionary! It helps me a lot with my daily work. There are two things that could be better, though:
1. It would be great if there would be a faster way to open the popup than the current one (double click -> right click -> Wiktionary). Maybe just mouse over, one click, double click, one click while pressing a key or something like that? And yeah, I realise it's called Right Click Wiktionary, but having another (shorter) optional method would not hurt in my opinion.
2. It would also help if there was an option to select a language within a certain dictionary. In my case I look up Latin words in the English wiktionary (which is by far the best). Sometimes you have to scroll quite a bit through all the available languages although I only want to see the entry for the Latin language (and never the English entry).
Those may sound like very minor issues, but if you look up thousands of words it results in a lot of "wasted" time.
Edit: That surely helps, thanks for your reply and thanks again for your work! :-)Developer response
posted 4 years agoYou can click on a language heading to make it auto-scroll there - Rated 5 out of 5by 黒崎十兵衞 • (Jubei Kurosaki), 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Donald Trump, 4 years agoBeautiful. Simple and elegant.
If you could somehow incorporate thesaurus.com into this extension, that would be absolutely perfect !
A link to thesaurus your pop-up would help streamline the workflow a little. Right now, I lookup wiktionary with this extension, and open a separate tab for thesaurus.com. - Rated 5 out of 5by John, 5 years agoPlain and simple, just what you'd want. Glad it requires limited permissions as well.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Epik, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Szubxero, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Shodaime, 5 years agoi wish this extension would also show the pronunciation of the defined word.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoFor the default layout, Wiktionary doesn't provide that data, so that won't be happening. I'll put in a request and maybe they'll add it one day.
I tried fetching an audio recording of the pronunciation, which worked, but Wiktionary doesn't do a good enough job at classifying the language of the recordings, so sometimes I ended up with Dutch pronunciations for the English word, for example. It was too confusing and misleading, so we won't be seeing that feature yet.
Once Wiktionary improve the API, then that's a different story. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15084891, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by matt, 5 years agoIf possible, can you add a way to put a search box in the pop up and set a max width? Other than that, I'm loving the add on as I'm not a fan of the ones that pop up in the middle of the screen.
Edit: That was fast! Thank you very much for adding my suggestions!Developer response
posted 5 years agoSearch box sounds nice, I'll see if I can do that in a sensible way. Max width - I'll an add option. It currently has a max size of 800x600 as per Firefox default. Here's a heads up: both these features will only work with the "default popup," aka. English Wiktionary only.
edit: boom. done. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14576456, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by PERCE-NEIGE, 6 years agoWiktionary is really not a reliable dictionary, it's full of mistakes, but if you want to use it being aware of that, this addon is not working for me, clicking the addon button fails to bring the addon window with the result. It's the reason why I give only one star, it doesn't work at all for me.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoOdd. It seems to work for me just fine.
You need Firefox version 57 or better. Which ff version are you using?
Or, if you've changed the wiktionary url in the preferences, then make sure that your url has no typos and is exactly like the examples, i.e. "fr.wiktionary.org" and not "fr.wiktionary".
As for Wiktionary, it's community driven and not-for-profit (r-right?). I like that. - Rated 5 out of 5by Kholdfyre, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14168381, 6 years agoI registered just to rate this extension!
I tried many similar extensions to this, but they all had things I didn't like. Here's a list of everything this particular extension gets right (for me) -
- Doesn't display an intrusive icon next to text that you highlight. (Extensions that do this always cause me to accidentally click it.)
- Opens a box in the top-right of the same tab, rather than annoyingly bringing me to a new tab to see my definition. I can also close the box by clicking anywhere else on the page. Love it! Wish Firefox's default findbar let me do the same thing... >_> Hmmfph.
- Doesn't focus exclusively on translation. (Some of us just like to look-up new words we're unsure of!)
Years ago I had an extension like this, but it stopped working and I could never find a replacement that did all of the above.
Right Click Wiktionary... you da real MVP.
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Edit: Gonna take one star off for the inability to look up proper nouns. :( Hope it's possible to fix that though!Developer response
posted 5 years agoSince version 10.0, it now recommends some "similar words" and you can click those to look up all sorts of words - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13888648, 7 years agoFantastic customization GUI, perfect result format, only thing holding back 5 stars is the option to change what triggers the lookup (e.g. change from right click and dropdown select to just double click highlighting). This was possible in a pre-FF57 extension, closest thing I see now is icon injection from Dictionary Anywhere.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoOne day... Firefox 61 will fix a bug, and that will make implementing this easier. Hopefully some time after that.
*update: I tried to make it but alas, one cannot open the popup from a "doubleclick" event. That requires a User action, as defined here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/User_actions . So the double click trigger is on-hold for now. - Rated 4 out of 5by Édouard Lopez, 7 years agoNice Idea but focus on English wiktionary, I was expecting to be able to customize the domain through some settings.
### Error message
I like the fact there is an error message that encourage to contribute, you can improve it by adding a link directly on the page to create, e.g.:
Word **praxique** not found, you can [submit it to the wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=praxique&action=edit)
### Other languages
You should improve the call-to-action by changing text on the [+] button by _show others languages_
Cheer and keep the good work.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the review and the tips.
Currently the api only supports English wiktionary. https://en.wiktionary.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/get_page_definition_term
I'll definitely patch the error message and the button text one day soon---ish. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13548671, 7 years agoSimple AF. Better than the Safari in-built lookup tool