KitaDic

 

 

Mouse Dictionary Extension for Firefox Browser

Initial version released in 2006, and currently updating.

 

 

"KitaDic" is an English-English dictionary extension for Firefox.
As a result of searching for an 'extremely easy to use' dictionary extension, I created KitaDic by forking Backword extension.

 

How-to-use

After installing KitaDic extension, place your mouse pointer on a word of interest and wait for a while (default: 2 seconds). KitaDic will fetch the meaning of the word from free-of-charge Wiktionary.org and show it in a 'Post-it' shape window. Click anywhere outside of the definition window to close it.

 

Screenshots

Mouse pointer placed over "Preview" word.

 

You can activate/deactivate KitaDic by clicking KitaDic icon(human face) on the lower right corner of Firefox.

 

 

Little more detail about KitaDic's behavior

• Top 100+ basic words will be ignored.
• Words inside TEXTAREA, INPUT,SELECT tags will be ignored.
• Definition window provides external links to the definitions in Wikipedia, Naver (English-Korean), Daum (Eng-Korean) and Answers.com. Those links will be opened in a new tab.
• KitaDic will guess the stem of the word.
• You can keep looking-up words inside definition window by placing your mouse pointer on them.
• The definition window will be closed when you click outside of it.

 

Download

Official download: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4800

 

History

• kitadic_0.3.020b.xpi / 2008.8.14

  • Works with Firefox 3.0.*

• kitadic_0.3.018b.xpi / 2007.4.13

  • Activation/deactivation icon added.
  • Save KitaDic activation status in preferences.
  • Ignore words in SELECT tag.
  • Cancel fetching if user scrolls.

• 0.3.017b

  • Code refactoring: more stability (less conflict with Gmail)
  • Improved the mechanism of parsing Wiktionary.com's content.
  • Modified the style of definition window (bigger font).
  • Ignores numbers.
  • Cancels fetching if mouse pointer moves
  • Fetching delay is changed to 2 seconds.
  • Ignores words in TEXTAREA, INPUT tags.

   

• 0.3.013a

  • Initial release.

   

 

Known problems

• The definition window's style would be affected by the style of current page.

• If you deactivate KitaDic while the definition window is open, the definition window won't be closed until you activate KitaDic again.

   

How to change KitaDic behavior settings (no user interface yet)

Currently, KitaDic doesn't have a user interface for setting user preferences. However, KitaDic provides an option that users can change via Firefox's interval config interface.

• Type about:config in Firefox's address bar.

  • Search for extensions.kitadic.wordmondelay and change its value to your preference. This WordMonDelay (word-monitor-delay) value  affects how many miliseconds the extension should wait for before fetching the word. Unit is miliseconds (1/1000 sec), and default value is 2000.

   

 

To-do

• basicwordblock preference
• Preference window
• Fetching Google Dictionary too
• DICT protocol...

 

Contact

kitaru [@ no-spam] gmail [. no-spam] com