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\ davespix (14 Nov 2007)
. \ Chris Ilias (14 Nov 2007)
. \ inkleputDEL (29 Nov 2007)
. . \ Melchert Fruitema (29 Nov 2007)
. . . \ David McRitchie (29 Nov 2007)

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Subject:	Re: dictionary
Group:	Mozilla-support-firefox
From:	David McRitchie
Date:	29 Nov 2007

"Melchert Fruitema" <mel.nospam> wrote in message news:JIidnWoBm-IBddPanZ2dnUVZ_qSonZ2d...
> On 29-11-2007 17:16 CET, inkleputDEL composed this enchanting
> statement:
>> I went through the motions of installing the dictionary extension.
>> Firefox says it is installed. But I can't find any place that actually
>> shows it on a manu or anything. So where is it?
>>
> What triggered you to install it?
>
> You'll want to use it in forms input, I am sure.

Hi JimL(inkleput),
Without telling us specifically which add-on it is a bit hard to
help you, some have names
that are very similar and some probably have the same name,
whether a second or third word is part of the extension name,
I'll guess it was this one...

DictionarySearch :: Firefox Add-ons
"Looks up a user selected word in an online dictionary"
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/68

That is telling you to select the word in the HTML document
and then to use the context (right-click) menu and the choice
would actually be if you selected the word "support"

'Dictionary search for "support" on Y..'
and the wording would of course be truncated such is
life on the menus since they come from many authors
and in many languages.

If you didn't want to use the context menu then you would be
using the search bar and choose a dictionary on the drop-down
or create a keyword shortcut and do it from the location bar.

Most of the fault is Mozilla's. But when you install an addon
you should look at the documentation and
1) go to the author's site
which you "may" find by clicking on the author's name but that
generally feeds you back to same document you started on.
2) Use tools, addons, to see if there is an "Options" button
and to see if there is a home page you haven't seen.
3) Look at the bottom of each menu for additons at the bottom
most are added to the main context menu, or the tools menu
but the other menus are also possibilites, and so are tabs and
buttons.

Context menus are named context menus because they change
(or should change) according to what you are doing and where
you right-click (toolbar button, menu, page, link, image, etc etc).
More information on context menus (in Firefox).
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/rightff.htm

More information on search and on keyword shortcuts
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/search.htm
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm

and of course, a summary of main aspects of all of the
extensions that I use.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#extensions
and listings to see if I am still actually using
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/infolister_listing_fx2.htm#extensions

--
HTH,
David McRitchie,
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

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