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Dictionary Search
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ChangeLog
Version 7.0.0 (3 Oct 2011)
- Update for Firefox 7.0 and Thunderbird 7.0
Version 6.0.0 (16 Aug 2011)
- Update for Firefox 6.0 and Thunderbird 5.0
Version 4.0.1 (13 Nov 2010)
- Add support for Firefox 4.0 beta 7
Version 4.0.0 (17 Jul 2010)
- Support for Firefox 4.0 beta 1
- Support for Thunderbird 3.1
- Add way to enable debugging in in about:config
- Support total of 6 instead of 4 dictionaries. Thanks to rtzui for the patch
- Support for thunderbird
- Bugfix: don't show debug info on console
- Support for FF 3.6
- Bug fix release
- Add thank you page
- Update for Firefox 3.5
- Update for Firefox 3.0
- Reverted change that encoded search terms based on encoding of web page
- Support for Firefox 2.0 and Thunderbird 2.0.
- Dictionary search will now follow version numbering of Firefox
- Removed access key
- Support for Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5. Dropped support for Mozilla Suite
- Using new way to package extensions
- Fix possible security exploit
- Fix in option window
- Support for Deer Park
- Also support Thunderbird again (Patch by Henrik Jensen)
- Also support Firefox 1.0.2 and below (Patch by Henrik Jensen)
- Support for Firefox 1.0.3. (Patch by Henrik Jensen)
- Following locales were added: ca-AD, cs-CZ, es-ES, fi-FI, he-IL and sl-SI A thank you to all the translators.
- Selection now always made lower case before submitting it to a search engine.
- Norwegian locale added. Provided by Tor Egil Hoftun Kvæstad
- Changed default dictionary to thefreedictionary.com
- Changed default menuitem text to Search Dictionary for ".."
- Support for Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 0.9
- Italian locale added. Provided by Giuliano Masseroni.
- Brazilian Portuguese locale added. Provided by Charlie Brown.
- The people of update.mozilla.org told me to lower the supported version of FF to 0.9.2 and TB 0.7.2.
- Fixed the bug that dictionarysearch did not work properly in Mozilla Mail
- Polish locale added. Provided by Piec
- Dictionarysearch will now install up till version 1.2 of both TB and FF
- Added support for Thunderbird 0.7
- Added an icon for the extension manager
- Added locales de-DE (Kai Henning) and fr-FR (Ternier Sylvain)
- Updated the extension so it can be installed in Firefox 0.9
- Help in the Options dialog now works. (Forgot to check it in for version 0.5)
- Support for Thunderbird and Mozilla Mail.
- Support for textareas (i.e. areas of a webpage where you can type) in Firefox and the Mozilla browser
- Dictionary Search now supports up to 4 dictionaries.
- Searching for phrases, like "The King" is now possible. You simply select the phrase and search for it in an online dictionary. NOTE not all dictionaries support multi word queries.
- Dictionary Search now respects the setting of "Open Links in the Background" in the Advanced Settings.
- Fixed bug: Mozilla Suite or Firefox in some special cases hangs where the user selected multiple lines of text.
- Fixed bug: Dictionary Settings not always saved correctly in Mozilla Suite.
- Added options dialog for Firebird and preference panel for Mozilla to be able to specify the the dictionary to use and the menuitem text.
- Website now contains a number of dictionaries from which the user can choose.
- Characters which are not letters are automatically stripped from the word which is selected. These characters are currently stripped &()[]{}",.!?':;
- Initial version only supporting dictionary.com. Gids Goldberg provided a version supporting the cambridge dictionaries.