Reviews for macOS Dictionary Lookup
macOS Dictionary Lookup by Emmanuel
Review by amnesiake
33 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Jake, 2 years agoIt used to work perfectly for a long time, but recently it's not working (highlight a word, right click, select the option, and dictionary app not taking the word as input), not sure why.
Using macos 12.4, Firefox 110.0 (64.bit), with an intel mac - Rated 5 out of 5by pauloMatsui, 2 years agoFirefox 105.0.1 and macOS Monterey 12.6: plugin working like a charm. I've been stuck with Firefox to work (I rather use Safari) and I was *badly* missing 'Lookup'. Thank you, Emmanuel!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15407415, 3 years agoDoes nothing. Firefox 91.8.0 ESR on Mac OS X 10.14.6.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Bill, 3 years agoWorks in Big Sur (OS 11.3.1), but you still have to select "look up in dictionary" at the bottom of a pop-down menu, so I wouldn't call it automatic. But you do get the Mt. Rushmore of Mac OS's dictionary, thesaurus, "Apple" and Wiki! Thanks.
- Rated 1 out of 5by FineWine, 3 years agoWorks on Catalina (10.15.7) with Firefox Proton versions.
Though not so simple to get going with.
You need to enter "dict://" into the address bar and choose the OSX system dictionary. It will now work for you from now on.
Clearly a bug that needs fixing. - Rated 4 out of 5by プリズム, 3 years agoIt works on my Big Sur, but sadly not in the way I expected. After click "look up", it doesn't show the result directly as in Safari and Chrome, you have to switch to the Dictionary application manually to see the result.
- Rated 5 out of 5by zensir, 4 years agoI works fantastically in my Big Sur macbook. What you have to do is to allow firefox to always run the MacOS Dictionary by typing "dict://test". in the address field of your FF browser and click "always..." and now it will always work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by gfang, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pieter, 4 years agoWorks on big sur (11.2.3) with Firefox 87.0. Simple yet effective, thanks for sharing this!
This extension adds a "Lookup in dictionary" option when you right click a selected word on a page. What this does is open the as "dict://". You can try the same thing from the browser bar. E.g. type "dict://test". I noticed that I first had to use the "dict://" URI from the browser bar manually and associate it with the OSX Dictionary application before the plugin would actually do something for me. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16572058, 4 years agoThis app doesn't work. Why is it so hard to get Firefox to do a simple function which is define a word?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14314266, 4 years agoworks as expected on Big Sur 11.2.3 and Firefox 87
- Rated 3 out of 5by outis, 4 years agoused to work, until Big Sur.
Now, sadly, nothing happens. Version 1.3.3
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AsyncFunctionThrow self-hosted:678 - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16532453, 4 years agoGiving it 3 stars because it used to work, but for me has stopped (Mac High Sierra).
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13838463, 4 years agoThis extension did not work for me with macOS 10.15.6. I downloaded and installed it, refreshed a page, selected a word and right clicked and … nothing happened.
To the developer, thanks for writing this extension, I look forward to using it once it's working reliably. - Rated 3 out of 5by _david_aaron, 4 years agoI can confirm that this does not seem to be working on either macOS 10.15.5 or macOS 10.12.6. Is this still being supported by the developer?
Like Firefox user 15573474, I'll update my rating to five stars once the add-on is working again.
UPDATE: Hi Emmanuel, thanks for your reply. I've just updated my macOS to 10.15.6; I don't know if it's something in my settings, but the dictionary is still not opening for me when I select a word, right click, and choose "Look up "[selected word]" in Dictionary." Nothing seems to happen at all, in fact. Please keep me updated if there are any further developments. I'll remove the two-star rating, since I know you're working on it.Developer response
posted 4 years agoAs posted below, things should be working OK on macOS 10.15.6. Could you keep me updated? Thanks
As for 10.12.6, I just don't have the time/energy to support every macOS version, I hope you can understand 🙂 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15573474, 4 years agoNot working on macOS 10.15.5.
I will update the rating to 5 stars, if it is fixed.Developer response
posted 4 years agoIt works for me on macOS 10.15.6 (July 15, 2020 update). Could you keep me updated if it still doesn't work for you? Thanks - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16046568, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15946429, 5 years ago