Better dictionary lookups

johnb
September 13, 2007, 09:53 AM posted in General Discussion
If you use FireFox and you use the ChinesePod Dictionary, check out our new Firefox search plugin! I promise you'll fall in love with the dictionary all over again.
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azerdocmom
September 13, 2007, 02:29 PM

That's great, JohnB, but I don't see an arrow next to "search"...perhaps because I use a Mac?

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bazza
September 13, 2007, 05:53 PM

Very cool. :)

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bazza
September 13, 2007, 05:56 PM

Is there an option somewhere to get search results to open in a new tab rather than the current one?

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johnb
September 13, 2007, 09:19 PM

AZERDocMom, you're using Firefox, right, not Safari? I'm looking at the page on my MacBook right now and I see the arrow in FireFox. Could you send a screenshot? Bazza, AFAIK there's no way to specify the result go into another tab. None of the other search plugins do that either, it seems, so I suspect it's a limitation either of the specification or the way that FireFox implements it.

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phil
September 13, 2007, 10:25 PM

Bazza, if you use Firefox, Alt-Enter opens the result in a new tab. Can be set up in about:config too but then it will always open a new tab AZERDocMom, as just written to the Praxis blog: I am using Firefox with the Aluminium Kai theme which does not have an arrow, I guess the creator decided it was superfluous to requirements. Just click on the Google icon in the search bar and the drop down list shown above should appear.

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Kyle
September 14, 2007, 01:18 AM

Awesome tool. Will definitely be in handy.

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trevelyan
September 14, 2007, 05:38 AM

This is a recommendation from AuntySue, I think. She really deserves the credit, not us.

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wildyaks
September 14, 2007, 05:53 AM

wow, that's so cool...

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bazza
September 14, 2007, 05:55 AM

Thanks for the tip Phil. :)

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azerdocmom
September 14, 2007, 06:57 PM

JohnB I found the arrow via Phil’s suggestion (thnx Phil!) and have added the plugin to FF search :) LostinAsia Thx for the info; will try AcidSearch when I have a minute :)