Reviews for Dictionary Anywhere
Dictionary Anywhere by meetDeveloper
Review by Sans Undertale
Rated 4 out of 5
by Sans Undertale, 4 years agoFor what it is, it works well. That being said, I decided to uninstall it for a few reasons...
1. Apparently, all the definitions are taken from a Google search. Granted the definitions themselves are fine, but it would be nice to have a larger pool of sources to choose from like Merriam-Webster or DuckDuckGo. Defaulting to Google works I suppose, but I don't think a Dictionary extension needs Google.
2. On that note, I can basically recreate the functionality of this extension using Swift Search Selection by adding a source like Miriam-Webster as a search engine, to say nothing of adding it as a search engine to the Firefox Browser itself.
Still gets the four stars because it is a good extension, but I decided since I already use SSS a lot anyway that I'll just keep using that and leave this on the shelf. Thanks for the good times.
1. Apparently, all the definitions are taken from a Google search. Granted the definitions themselves are fine, but it would be nice to have a larger pool of sources to choose from like Merriam-Webster or DuckDuckGo. Defaulting to Google works I suppose, but I don't think a Dictionary extension needs Google.
2. On that note, I can basically recreate the functionality of this extension using Swift Search Selection by adding a source like Miriam-Webster as a search engine, to say nothing of adding it as a search engine to the Firefox Browser itself.
Still gets the four stars because it is a good extension, but I decided since I already use SSS a lot anyway that I'll just keep using that and leave this on the shelf. Thanks for the good times.
516 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by BISWAJIT, 16 days agoThis extension helps me in getting the exact word meaning by double clicking on the word without opening another tab and it is same as google dictionary thank you.
- Rated 1 out of 5by eggsandoatmeal, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14095826, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by AbdA, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by rundnbis, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jay, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18916828, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18864233, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18909097, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by RiffRaffMama, 3 months agoIt's good sometimes, but more often than not it can't find a definition, which doesn't make it a particularly comprehensive dictionary. And if a word is a plural or any kind of variation, it can't find it either, just the simple form of the word, and there's no way to get a definition by highlighting a word without the 's' or whatever on the end, because you have to double click, which naturally highlights the entire word.
There's just too many words it can't find. - Rated 1 out of 5by InnocuousOctopus, 3 months agoNo longer functional. If this is fixed I will be revising my review to give the extention the 5 stars it deserves when it is functional.
For those struggling to find a replacement as I was:
Definer by Lumetrium:
- seems to fulfill the same purpose in a more aesthetically pleasing package. - Rated 1 out of 5by Unknown__, 3 months agoHasn't been working for a while, keeps saying definition not found
- Rated 1 out of 5by James Cherry, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lavonne a armour-gaddis, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mohamed Abdelhay, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ahmet Dedeler, 3 months ago