Reviews for Quick Dictionary
Quick Dictionary by Trần Xuân Thắng
44 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14068099, 6 years agoQuý lắm mới cho 5* đấy nhớ. Tiện ích làm như cớt ấy
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13945316, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lien Vu, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11233054, 7 years agoGracias muy bueno, se puede buscar en el Wiktionary en español (Wikcionario) poniendo en la caja de texto de las opciones, Language #1 (required): es
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13965540, 7 years agoDoesn't support instant definition-popup showing with double-click.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoSorry for the inconvenience. Because the translation result is from online service, I think it's not good to translate immediately after every double clicks. Different than offline-based translation addons, mine suffers from slower speed on crappy internet, not mention that every time double clicked a popup will cover some of page content, and the privacy issues (imagine everything you double clicked will be sent instantly to online provider, even if you want to translate your selected string or not). Still, I understand your will and I'll try to do something about it soon. - Rated 5 out of 5by lamqhoang, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Quang Trinh, 7 years agoNice add-on, but I want to have an option to turn off the context menu for it. My browser toolbox is buggy and I couldn't seem to get the CSS ID for it. What is the CSS ID for the context menu of this add-on? So that I can turn it of myself, thank you!
Edit: Nevermind, found it, "#_3b70ac6e-090b-4455-b0be-ab852255cfee__context_find_meaning"Developer response
posted 7 years agoGlad you found it yourself. I don't exactly know what the CSS ID is and how to find it tbh :P - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13885244, 7 years agoExcellent extension. Works all the time for me.Never had a problem. Switched to firefox from chrom for privacy reasons (do not like google's data collection). I was missing the pop up dictonary though .This great extention helped me out. Thank you so much for offering this. Really appreciate it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13256199, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13691436, 7 years agoIt captures cmd-Q on Mac, which is the command to exit an application. ctrl-Q is a very common command on both Windows and Linux as well. Please change it, or at least give us the option to.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoI'll find what I can do about this problem asap. I'm more familiar with Alt+F4 though.
Edit: I've changed the hotkey to "Ctrl+Shift+Q" ("Cmd+Shift+Q" for macOS), hope this brings you more convenient.
The hotkey shortcut have to be hard coded in manifest.json, it is the rule of webExtension so I think it'll not be easy to make an option to customize it. Chrome extension already have the built-in hotkey modifier (For example https://www.howtogeek.com/127162/how-to-create-custom-keyboard-shortcuts-for-browser-actions-and-extensions-in-google-chrome/) so we might have to wait for firefox to add this feature. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13637397, 7 years agoThis extension is the best I found for FF57, it does everything I need and it is very convenient.
Thank you very much! - Rated 4 out of 5by Erlend, 7 years agoThis is good! I started using this after an older Wiktionary plugin whose name I forgot stopped working when Firefox stopped supporting XUL. With that older extension, you could right-click a highlighted word and click a menu option that gave you an on-page window showing the full Wiktionary page for that word. This plugin has a few other ways to trigger looking up words - a neat optional button that appears over highlighted words, a toolbar button you can click to look up the highlighted word, or a hotkey (CTRL-Q). The page that pops up is a modified and shortened Wiktionary page. If the highlighted word is not on Wiktionary, the add-on can still often find the correct translation by looking it up in some other source.
For me, there are only two things that make this a 4/5 instead of a 5/5. First, the modified Wiktionary page that this plugin displays is missing a few things, such as translations. Second, and most importantly, the hotkey is not editable in any obvious way, and in Firefox on macOS it is set to CMD-Q, which is also the system hotkey to close programs on macOS. The extension overrides the system hotkey, which means that you can no longer quit Firefox in the most convenient way with the extension enabled. (Oh yeah, and the plugin defaults to the Vietnamese Wiktionary version, but this is very easy to change. :) )Developer response
posted 7 years agoAbout the hotkey shortcut, it have to be hard coded in manifest.json, it is the rule of webExtension so I think it'll not be easy to make an option to customize it. Chrome extension already have the built-in hotkey modifier (For example https://www.howtogeek.com/127162/how-to-create-custom-keyboard-shortcuts-for-browser-actions-and-extensions-in-google-chrome/) so we might have to wait for firefox to add this feature. - Rated 3 out of 5by alexg, 7 years agoCame here from the wiktionary extension by zen, which could point and translate words with a hotkey, which allowed translating buttons and links, that are hard or impossible to select. Hopefully this extension will add this option.
Also the information given in the popup interface in wikitionary was a lot less messy - easier to read right away.Developer response
posted 7 years agoSorry for the late reply. There are some limitation in webExtensions when compare to good old XUL addons, so some features like "hold ctrl or ctrl+shift to translate hovering word" are not possible right now (you can use Ctrl+Q to bring up the addon popup though).
If you want to translate some text in links, I have this little trick: hold your "alt" button when select some text inside a link, then you can choose that text without accidentally click to that link.
I know about the popup's results is probably looks too complicated, I'm still finding solutions for that. My extension uses wiktionary result in html format, while the 'Wiktionary and Google Translate' addon by Zen gets the wiktionary result in 'wiki markup' format, which is very hard to parse, and the addon won't show you the meaning of a word in verb, or noun, adj, adv,... and just show a few meanings of the word if I remembered right.
And I know little about javascript when I wrote this extension, but right now I've got a lot better so I may try to rewrite this extension when I have time. - Rated 4 out of 5by Daniel, 7 years agoGood, i like it. But, when i using "Reader View" mode in Firefox, Quick Dictionary isn't work. Why?
Developer response
posted 7 years agoSorry for the late reply (somehow I didn't receive AMO notification by email). Reader mode acts like a system page (like about:preferences, or addons.mozilla.org) so with the limitation of webExtension for now won't allow extensions to interact with it.
EDIT: "quick button" still doesn't work in reader mode, but you can use Sidebar + QD's context menu to translate in reader mode. https://imgur.com/KWbu1ZX - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13394511, 7 years agoIt works as well as it claims it does. I think it's the most convenient dictionary compatible with 47+
- Rated 2 out of 5by firefoxtrot, 7 years agoI only see the green button appear sometimes, but most times it doesn't do anything.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThat's weird. Could you provide some sites URL as example, or it's completely random?
The button does not show most of the time if you select text on the web, and when the button does appear, clicking on it does not show anything, am I right?
Remember that "green button" does not support all sites, like this one (addons.mozilla.org).
And what are your firefox version number? If you have time to provide more detailed information, you can contact with me by my email tranthang.yb@outlook.com. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11874150, 7 years agoHave tried many dictionary extensions but this is the best!
Thank for your amazing job! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12513269, 7 years agoRất tốt nhưng cần phát triển "Double click" vào từ để tra ngay :)