Reviews for Dictionary Anywhere
Dictionary Anywhere by meetDeveloper
Review by Kai
Rated 4 out of 5
by Kai, 6 years agoi like the simplicity of the graphics, the in-page pop-up, the short defintions and the google-generated content is better than competitors (mirriam webster, for example), HOWEVER, after a few hours of using, it started giving me "sorry, no definition found" for whatever i click on. this has not resolved even after uninstalling and reinstalling the add on, so very sad about this as it is otherwise exactly what i'm looking for.
if the developers see this i can't tell you what triggered the add in to stop working. i made sure dom.webcomponents.shadowdom.enabled was enabled (when it stopped working). I do read a lot of stuff on pocket and reader view so maybe it started after some interaction there? maybe there's a clue in the fact that functionality was not restored even after deleting and reinstalling?
EDIT (after response from developer): YES, you were right about it being a VPN issue. As soon as i switch it off the add-on starts to work again. I have changed my rating to 4/5. i tend to have my vpn on most of the time so using this add on will not be particularly useful to me after all, however, i am aware this will only affect a minority of users.
if the developers see this i can't tell you what triggered the add in to stop working. i made sure dom.webcomponents.shadowdom.enabled was enabled (when it stopped working). I do read a lot of stuff on pocket and reader view so maybe it started after some interaction there? maybe there's a clue in the fact that functionality was not restored even after deleting and reinstalling?
EDIT (after response from developer): YES, you were right about it being a VPN issue. As soon as i switch it off the add-on starts to work again. I have changed my rating to 4/5. i tend to have my vpn on most of the time so using this add on will not be particularly useful to me after all, however, i am aware this will only affect a minority of users.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoI am really sorry you had bad experience with the extension. I would need some logs to exactly find the problem. Were you using any VPN? There might be case that due to excessive usage of addon, google returned captcha and that is why extension was not able to parse word meaning. Whenever you see this issue again, could you try to find meaning of very simple word that surely has meaning and if that returned no definition found, check that you can search on google, I feel this is due to captcha or vpn, somehow google stopped returning results.
569 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sid, 7 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by S1lenceIsG0lden, 15 days agoNot working (anymore). Now using "lookup," by Igor M.
- Rated 5 out of 5by C4, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by anonymu, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Engineer Gaming, a month agoThis piece of sh*t never ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT THE WORDS MEAN WHEN I DOUBLE CLICK. How do you not know what turgid means? It's been a word since the 1600s. Jesus christ
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16885962, a month agoIt does not define anything anymore, even simple words.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ethan, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by bishwodahal, a month agoI used this extension for a long time, but it stopped working completely since past couple of months.
I have been using this "Dictionary on Click" addon, it supports meanings, pronunciation, and parts of speech too. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17275815, 2 months agoUsed to work perfectly. Now it's useless, broken, garbage. Any word, including basic words like the word "word", just shows "No definition found."
Worthless in its current state.
Use "Dictionariez: Your Dictionary, Your Language" instead. It actually works. - Rated 1 out of 5by dzhmil, 2 months agoIt inexplicably stopped functioning a month or so ago :-( Which is a huge shame because I found this extension extremely useful while it lasted! I hope its developer finds the time to fix it at some point
- Rated 1 out of 5by wavingdragon, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Midnight, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alexaction, 2 months agoAnother extension plagued with abandonment issues, such a shame.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vivek, 2 months agoI think this add-on is now unmaintained. The definitions for the words doesn't so up. "Sorry no definition found" appears even for a word like "navigate".
This add-on appears to be really buggy and even then this retains recommended badge by mozilla. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17743303, 3 months agoDoesn't work. No Definition found is all you get now.
- Rated 1 out of 5by stk1, 3 months agoThis extension just doesnt work at all. All the words I highlight say no definition found
- Rated 1 out of 5by Moo, 3 months agoDoesn't work at all anymore, sad :( Hard to find extensions like these, many don't work anymore.