Revisiones de Dictionary Anywhere
Dictionary Anywhere por meetDeveloper
Revisado por Kai
Se valoró con 4 de 5
por Kai, hace 6 añosi like the simplicity of the graphics, the in-page pop-up, the short defintions and the google-generated content is better than competitors (mirriam webster, for example), HOWEVER, after a few hours of using, it started giving me "sorry, no definition found" for whatever i click on. this has not resolved even after uninstalling and reinstalling the add on, so very sad about this as it is otherwise exactly what i'm looking for.
if the developers see this i can't tell you what triggered the add in to stop working. i made sure dom.webcomponents.shadowdom.enabled was enabled (when it stopped working). I do read a lot of stuff on pocket and reader view so maybe it started after some interaction there? maybe there's a clue in the fact that functionality was not restored even after deleting and reinstalling?
EDIT (after response from developer): YES, you were right about it being a VPN issue. As soon as i switch it off the add-on starts to work again. I have changed my rating to 4/5. i tend to have my vpn on most of the time so using this add on will not be particularly useful to me after all, however, i am aware this will only affect a minority of users.
if the developers see this i can't tell you what triggered the add in to stop working. i made sure dom.webcomponents.shadowdom.enabled was enabled (when it stopped working). I do read a lot of stuff on pocket and reader view so maybe it started after some interaction there? maybe there's a clue in the fact that functionality was not restored even after deleting and reinstalling?
EDIT (after response from developer): YES, you were right about it being a VPN issue. As soon as i switch it off the add-on starts to work again. I have changed my rating to 4/5. i tend to have my vpn on most of the time so using this add on will not be particularly useful to me after all, however, i am aware this will only affect a minority of users.
Respuesta del desarrollador
publicado el hace 6 añosI am really sorry you had bad experience with the extension. I would need some logs to exactly find the problem. Were you using any VPN? There might be case that due to excessive usage of addon, google returned captcha and that is why extension was not able to parse word meaning. Whenever you see this issue again, could you try to find meaning of very simple word that surely has meaning and if that returned no definition found, check that you can search on google, I feel this is due to captcha or vpn, somehow google stopped returning results.
545 revisiones
- Se valoró con 4 de 5por MrMoodle, hace 2 díasI appreciate this add-on and the work that went into it. One crucial area of improvement to make it much more user-friendly would be to disable the popup in writing/input text fields. I find myself constantly closing the popup in search fields or text input when I'm not interested in definitions, but a word gets highlighted, and it's a nuisance.
- Se valoró con 5 de 5por diegof59, hace 17 días
- Se valoró con 1 de 5por faird, hace un mesThe addon is abandoned. It doesn't work any more and the dev is ignoring the submitted fix: github.com/meetDeveloper/Dictionary-Anywhere/pull/85
- Se valoró con 2 de 5por bryanmac199, hace un mesI've used this extension for years, and found it was a must-have for me, even at work. However, it no longer works.
- Se valoró con 4 de 5por iYxnn, hace un mesThanks for the bug fix! Definitions are now working again for the Spanish dictionary.
- Se valoró con 1 de 5por ptarmie., hace 2 meses
- Se valoró con 5 de 5por elsenfox, hace 2 meses
- Se valoró con 3 de 5por Kei, hace 2 mesesNo dark mode, No protection from going behind the edge of the screen, No definition found.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. - Se valoró con 5 de 5por Usuario de Firefox 18599020, hace 3 mesesWorks again, also works much better than Dictionariez which is a scam app and I reported to mozilla.
- Se valoró con 5 de 5por AlDollaz, hace 3 meses
- Se valoró con 1 de 5por Vrako Mugion, hace 4 mesesIt was one of the best add on i used daily. But since last few weeks, it shows - "Sorry, No definition found." for every word even the simplest one and I have checked all. Permission, internet connectivity, reinstalling - but no use. It seems this add on is dead.
Developer do something please.. - Se valoró con 1 de 5por quoodles, hace 6 meses
- Se valoró con 3 de 5por RT, hace 6 mesesWhen it's working, it's great. But it keeps breaking - saying sorry no definition found for every single word. It did that a while ago so I turned it off and found a different add-on, but I didn't like it as much and I forgot why I'd stopped using this one so I turned it back on and it worked for about a day. Then it stopped working again. I see an update note saying this problem was fixed, but it has not been fixed.
- Se valoró con 5 de 5por Usuario de Firefox 18882793, hace 6 mesesthis extension is very good for me. I'm a student and have to research a lot of document and this extension really save a lot of time for me.
- Se valoró con 3 de 5por Marc Lyons, hace 6 mesesYears ago, either this one or one similar worked so well to define any word I clicked or double-clicked.... it worked so well then and it was dependable. Was 5* dependable from what I remember.
This week, I found it strange that I was unable to see many options for a similar browser add-on and a couple days ago went ahead and grabbed this one. I've probably used it before and don't recall why it wasn't (until a couple days ago) in my extensions list.
Anyway, quick to the point, it worked for about 24 hours and now doesn't show any definitions in popup at all. I'd love for it to be consistent and to be dependable but currently not even the simplest words are defined.
I get the popup window but it shows, "Sorry
No definition found."
Hope in time there's a fix because it's an important tool for me and if I could count on it, I'd gladly buy those cups of coffee.
Best of luck and thank you for your work. Looking forward to using the Dictionary Anywhere extension again but for now I'll have to disable and search for something else. - Se valoró con 5 de 5por Lawrence, hace 7 meses
- Se valoró con 2 de 5por Usuario de Firefox 19477071, hace 7 meses
- Se valoró con 5 de 5por UF, hace 7 meses
- Se valoró con 5 de 5por drdakota, hace 7 mesesI have read that in the last months the extension has not worked for a few people and that's what tanked the star rating. Still, being on the search for this type of tool I tried it myself (on Google and Reddit) and was actually surprised it does work.
At the moment of review I have just downloaded it a couple minutes ago so won't know for sure about bugs or other stuff (I'd update the review), but I'm sure the developers can benefit from some positivity since the ext actually does work. Thanks for the hard work!