Useful Firefox Tool

[Gerontion]

I did a search for this but it doesn't seem to have been mentioned before: There's a very handy add-on for Firefox called Orange Dictionary which translates Thai words on websites to English as you run a mouse over them (the translation appears in a pop-up). The add-on and details are available from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6698. It's flagged as experimental but it seems to work fine in 3.0.10 on Vista.

[katana]

Thanks. Tried it last year on Firefox 2.0.0.16 and couldn't get it to work. However, on 3.0.10 it seems ok now.

[zzdocxx]

Pretty amazing if you ask me.

[desi]

I'm on a Mac...

I tried it last year and it didn't work.

Updated FF yesterday so tried it again.

Didn't work.

[sbk]

Nifty, but I don't like the toolbar it adds to the top of the screen, is there a way to use it without having the toolbar added?

[kikenyoy]

I tried it but wasn't very impressed. A lot of unknown words and it would often separate words incorrectly. Thai2English does it much better, imo.

[PoorSucker]

Nice.

Didn't like the toolbar though.

[Gerontion]

I've just discovered a version of StarDict which Linux users can run which does the same thing as this add-on but which works in any program where you can select text. Details can be found at http://www.mrchoke.org/node/183 Works perfectly on Ubuntu 9.04.