{"id":9270,"date":"2005-07-26T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T07:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/26\/dictionary-plugins-for-mozilla-firefox\/"},"modified":"2005-10-02T23:58:51","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T20:58:51","slug":"dictionary-plugins-for-mozilla-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/26\/dictionary-plugins-for-mozilla-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictionary plugins for Mozilla Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Being a non-native English speaker, I have this mildly often need to lookup the translation of some word in the dictionary.  Instead of installing translation software on my computer or visiting one of the online translators every time such a need arises, I chose to use an extension to Mozilla <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\">Firefox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Until now I was using the <a href=\"http:\/\/extensionroom.mozdev.org\/more-info\/dictionarysearch\">DictionarySearch<\/a> extension, which can be configured to lookup in several different dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.  I was mostly happy with the extension, but felt that it could be <strike>improved<\/strike> simplified.  I didn&#8217;t need all those configurations, choices and such.  All I wanted was to lookup the translation of either English or Russian word in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lingvo.yandex.ru\/\">Yandex Lingvo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I came across an extension which does exactly that.  <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/extensions\/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&#038;id=991\">Lingvo Online!<\/a> for Mozilla Firefox is a very small and simple extension which does exactly what I want.  It adds a context menu which allows quick lookups of selected words.<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Being a non-native English speaker, I have this mildly often need to lookup the translation of some word in the dictionary. Instead of installing translation software on my computer or visiting one of the online translators every time such a need arises, I chose to use an extension to Mozilla Firefox. Until now I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/26\/dictionary-plugins-for-mozilla-firefox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dictionary plugins for Mozilla Firefox<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[20,65,179,45,95,1279],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-browsers","tag-desktop","tag-dictionary","tag-mozilla","tag-plugins","tag-translations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8479,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/14\/bloglines-extension-for-mozilla-firefox\/","url_meta":{"origin":9270,"position":0},"title":"BlogLines extension for Mozilla \/ Firefox","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 14, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"If you are using BlogLines, you might find this extension for Mozilla \/ Firefox useful. 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