Hi Guys! This is my first post on Koohi!!! Im starting the RTK1 book now, after taking the N1 JLPT exam. I know most of the Japanese, but would like to learn the writing for the kanji kentei!

Does anyone use firefox? Can you show me how to add these online dictionaries to the google search bar in the top right part of the Firefox browser?

These are my favorite dictionaries and sentence practice!!! Do you guys have any others? I would like to save them to my bookmarks!

http://www.sanseido.net/

http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/je/

http://www.alc.co.jp/

http://tatoeba.org/eng

http://jisho.org/

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Hi animehunter and welcome. You can find a simple tip here.

You may also want to do a search first with the search box on those sites, as wbesites can specify custom search engines and they get automatically added in your browser. In Firefox look into "Manage Search Engines" dropdown in the top right area, in Google Chrome right click the url bar "Edit Search Engines...". If it is already there, then you can edit it (double click) and set the keyword you like so that you can type <keyword> <search term> in your url bar.

Manage Search Engines in Google Chrome

Thank you so much! I was able to add a few search engines to my firefox browser!

I havent figured out how to add sanseido yet, but I will keep trying!

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I did a simple search on the front page of sanseido, copy and pasting "利用" from somewhere on the page.

After I click search the URL looks like:

"http://www.sanseido.net/User/Dic/Index.aspx?TWords=利用&st=0&DailyJJ=checkbox"

Bookmark the result of a search then go in Organize Bookmarks window. Click the little arrow to expand the bookmark's options. Add the keyword (shortcut) you like, and replace the search with %s in the bookmark url.

"http://www.sanseido.net/User/Dic/Index.aspx?TWords=%s&st=0&DailyJJ=checkbox"

Then typing <keyword> <search term> in the url bar works.

The nice thing about Google Chrome is that as you as you press space after the keyword, the url bar changes to show that you are searching inside a website.

See Tip: Quick site searches with the Omnibox on Google Chrome blog.

There may be a similar UI feature in Firefox 4, I haven't checked it out yet.

To do custom searches in FF, you can also use Project Mycroft. Just Google it.

Mycroft will add a lot of the more common search engines to your drop-down search bar on the side. (And some of the more uncommon ones, too.)

I like the yahoo.co.jp JP-EN dictionary, as well the alc.co.jp JP-EN dictionary.

Just put the URL of the site you want to search for in the Mycroft search bar, and it will lead you to the plugins you need.

There's also a plug-in called Add to Search Bar 2.0, which will do pretty much what it says. It does the same thing as Mycroft for sites that aren't in Mycroft. (Like tatoeba.org)

Oh, there's a dropdown for other search engines. That's nice. I'll probably just use that since just getting a hit count from Yahoo in that Globefish Language Tool kind of sucks.

While we're tossing around query URLs, just worked this one out:

Ex: https://search.twitter.com/search?q=%E5%...00&lang=ja

From what I read, seems maybe something could be done with the feed (/search.atom?q=) to get a hit count.

The longest batch of hits allowed seems to be 100.

BTW Ctrl+E wow that places the focus on the search bar (as opposed to alt + d for URL bar). And alt+enter opens results in new tab.

You can also use SmartSearch add-on to right-click selections and search from context menu.

Thanks guys!!!