Installing many dictionaries as Firefox and Internet Explorer add-ons Tópico cartaz: Fabio Said
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Fabio Said 
Alemanha
Local time: 20:21
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Hi,
I want to share with you a great discovery I made today. It's a very useful tool for me, and I hope it'll be for you, too.
If you use Firefox or Internet Explorer, you can add many dictionaries to your browser’s search engine (the search engine is that little box that gives you easy access to Google Search (default). Apart from Google Search, there are literally hundreds of search engines you can install as add-on. The ones I'm most interested in and installed are... See more Hi,
I want to share with you a great discovery I made today. It's a very useful tool for me, and I hope it'll be for you, too.
If you use Firefox or Internet Explorer, you can add many dictionaries to your browser’s search engine (the search engine is that little box that gives you easy access to Google Search (default). Apart from Google Search, there are literally hundreds of search engines you can install as add-on. The ones I'm most interested in and installed are dictionaries and encyclopedias such as
- Duden
- Webster's Collegiate
- Longman
- Oxford Advanced Learner's
- PONS bilingual dictionaries
- Diccionario de la Real Academia Española
- Langenscheidt Fremdwörterbuch
- IATE
- LEO (a popular user dictionary)
- Wikipedia in many languages (every language version has a different search engine)
and many others, including many bilingual dictionaries for many language combinations (I mentioned above the dictionaries for the languages I work with)
This is a free and legal service usually offered or authorized by the dictionaries' editors themselves.
In my case, this new tool will certainly boost productivity in terminology searches.
If you're interested, please read an article I posted today on my translation blog, fidusinterpres.com:
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| | | | | Finding words | Jan 16, 2009 |
Another tool (program) that I find very helpful, and which is rarely mentioned in proz is WordFinder.
I wouldn't be without it. Together with Trados for example it is a great help. Simply mark a word in the source text, toggle through dictionaries and glossaries that you have installed and paste in the word of your choice.
The possibility of compiling individual and personal glossaries, together with notes and references to subjects and customers' preferences, is a great advantage.
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Hi Fabio,
thanks for sharing this information with us. It really is helpful to me as a Firefox user, and it also includes resources I didn't know before.
Again thank you very much.
I'll be reading your blog post when I have more time.
Best regards,
Eric
| | | | Marcia Gascon
Brasil
Local time: 15:21
inglês para português
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| very good and useful tip | Jan 16, 2009 |
Eric Le Carre wrote:
Hi Fabio,
thanks for sharing this information with us. It really is helpful to me as a Firefox user, and it also includes resources I didn't know before.
Thank you very much Fábio
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Last year Firefox was working extremely slowly for me and when I checked out the possible reasons on the internet, one of them was "having too many add-ons"
| | | | Fabio Said
Alemanha
Local time: 20:21
alemão para português
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CRIADOR(A) DO TÓPICO | Actually, the correct terminology is "search plugin" | Jan 16, 2009 |
I used the word "add-on", but it should be "search plugin". After installing an add-on you have to restart FF. After installing a search plugin you don't have to restart it.
I'm currently using some 50 dictionaries and haven't experienced any slow connection due to many add-ons. Maybe it's because I keep my add-ons to the absolute minimum (not even 10).
So, don't worry, just browse and install the "search plugins" that are most interesting to you.
 ... See more I used the word "add-on", but it should be "search plugin". After installing an add-on you have to restart FF. After installing a search plugin you don't have to restart it.
I'm currently using some 50 dictionaries and haven't experienced any slow connection due to many add-ons. Maybe it's because I keep my add-ons to the absolute minimum (not even 10).
So, don't worry, just browse and install the "search plugins" that are most interesting to you.
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I will definitely use this, thank you Fabio.
| | | | | Quicksearches | Jan 17, 2009 |
You can also try Firefox's Quicksearches, so the search can be done directly from the URL bar using a keyword:
Quicksearches
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It's a great feature that I also didn't know!
Thanks a lot!!
[Edited at 2009-01-17 09:01 GMT]
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Local time: 21:21
Membro (2006)
inglês para russo
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SITE LOCALIZER | K Donnelly
Estados Unidos
Local time: 14:21
italiano para inglês
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This is really helpful. Thank you!
-Karla
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Membro (2008)
chinês para holandês
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Sebastian Witte
Alemanha
Local time: 20:21
Membro (2004)
inglês para alemão
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| Is this feasible in IE 6? | Jan 20, 2009 |
I looked for a way to install a search plug-in in Internet Explorer 6 on www.pons.de but didn't find one. How should I go about this, or do I need to have IE 7?
| | | | Fabio Said
Alemanha
Local time: 20:21
alemão para português
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CRIADOR(A) DO TÓPICO | PONS is not available for IE, I suppose | Jan 20, 2009 |
Sebastian Witte wrote: I looked for a way to install a search plug-in in Internet Explorer 6 on www.pons.de but didn't find one. How should I go about this, or do I need to have IE 7?
If your check this page
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=pons
you'll find out that PONS dictionaries are only available for Firefox.
If I were you, I'd take this as a good excuse to change from IE to FF.
| | | | Fabio Said
Alemanha
Local time: 20:21
alemão para português
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CRIADOR(A) DO TÓPICO | I correct myself | Jan 20, 2009 |
Fabio Said wrote: Sebastian Witte wrote: I looked for a way to install a search plug-in in Internet Explorer 6 on www.pons.de but didn't find one. How should I go about this, or do I need to have IE 7? If your check this page http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=pons you'll find out that PONS dictionaries are only available for Firefox. If I were you, I'd take this as a good excuse to change from IE to FF.
I just happen to find out a way of installing PONS dictionaries in IE.
To do this, you visit the PONS dictionary website:
http://pons.eu/dict/search
Then you go to IE's search bar and click on the arrow that enables you to change between search engines (in my German IE, the tool tip for this clickable arrow says "Suchoptionen", so it in the English version it should be something like "search options").
Then you click on "Suchanbieter hinzufügen" (for those who use IE in English, it should be "add search engine"), and then click on the dictionary name.
There you are!
Apparently it might work for other dictionaries as well!
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