Comments on: Firefox 1.5 & The Free Dictionary vs. Dictionary.com

By: What A Dict

What A Dict — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:53:04 +0000

dict in the location field used to take me to dictionary.com’s definition as well. Then all of a sudden it started taking me to some other location. I just found out how to get it working again, so thought I’d put it here for others who may like it:

Go to dictionary.com and make a bookmark to that page. Edit the bookmark so that the Location field has:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s and the Keyword field has dict in it. Save the changes, and now type dict in the location bar at top and it should work for you!

By: DavidBauder

DavidBauder — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:22:20 +0000

Hey Jesse, that pissed me off too! I used that feature alot, now I gotta bookmark dictionary.com and it slows me down. Anyway, you win some you loose some. Blah!

Dave

By: mr10

mr10 — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:34:10 +0000

https://addons.mozilla.org/search-engines.php

There’s a whole list of cool stuff to add to the search dropdown… dictionary.com is in that list as well: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/dictionary.com.html

To remove engines either get the hack from the add-ons page, or (for win xp) go to:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[code].default\searchplugins

Cheerio,

By: davidr

davidr — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:25:33 +0000

i see what they are doing: double click another random word on the page…it then looks up that word in the dictionary. Kind of interesting, but a dumb move usability-wise.

By: judah

judah — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:33:22 +0000

Same here. I used to use dictionary.com to find the uh, umm, the ah, um, oh yeah, words for things. I also used it to check spelling. I’m with you on this. I’d at least appreciate the options.