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.
521 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14095826, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by AbdA, 17 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by rundnbis, 19 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jack Hoveall, 20 days agoSimply does not work. ALL words return not found. Went thru Every preference option. FF ver 115.22 on Mac
- Rated 2 out of 5by marxdrive, 21 days agoThere is a working replacement, serach "Dictionary Anywhere v2"
- Rated 1 out of 5by Zozo, a month agoIt used to be good, but sadly has been broken for 6+ months with no word on fixes from the dev. Uninstalled.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Misterdoggy, a month agoBeen waiting for a fix for months, but I'm gonna uninstall now, thanks for the memories <3 :-;
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jay, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18916828, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16396950, a month agoOne of my favorite extensions! Back when it worked, that is...
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18864233, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18909097, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by RiffRaffMama, a month 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, a month 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__, a month agoHasn't been working for a while, keeps saying definition not found
- Rated 1 out of 5by James Cherry, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lavonne a armour-gaddis, 2 months ago