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I love how whenever I think "I wish I could make firefox do this", somebody has already done it. In this case, I was thinking how handy it would be to always have another window open to always have a dictionary handy. Instead of having to switch tabs, it would be open, making it much faster to look up a word.
Somebody made such an extention for Firefox, and it works wonderfully. I took a screenshot so you can have an idea of how it would work (click to enlarge):
You can split the browser as many times as you like. As you can see, I have a couple dictionaries open on the right as I'm reading the news. (And I learned how to say cardboard box in Japanese!)
For anyone reading a lot of Japanese articles, this is a must. I know a lot of you are probably thinking "why not just use Rikaichan?". Personally, Rikaichan is way too much of a crutch. Copying and pasting might not be that much more work, but it's enough to keep me actively looking up a word, rather than lazily looking at the English defintion and foretting what it means 5 seconds later. (Rikaichan only supports the EDICT dicationary, anyway)
edit-- considering you're all too damned lazy to write your own plugin, I guess I'll supply the link for the one already made:
Split Browser
Split Browser (日本語版）
Last edited by samesong (2008 November 23, 10:29 am)
samesong, what dictionary do you use in the upper right part of the screen?
this is a great add on, especialy on a 26" screen.
this forum only take up half the screen 
Hashiriya wrote:
yeh dual monitors isn't a bad investment... I don't think I could ever go back to just one
I agree, I'm gonna miss my second monitor when I go overseas, they increase your productivity like nothing else.
I keep EBWin open all the time with my favourite dictionaries in there. These days I've just been using the J-J dictionaries 大辞泉、大辞林、広辞苑. I think 広辞苑 (こうじえん) is the best J-J dictionary, but I often switch between the three.
samesong wrote:
Link? I figured users were were smart enough to simply write their own plugin.
The number of Firefox users -- here or anywhere else -- who know anything at all about writing plugins is probably pretty small. A higher proportion than for other browsers, surely, but still small.
Also, even if we were smart/non-lazy enough to do it ourselves (I'm smart enough, but not non-lazy enough), it's always a good idea to use someone else's solution to a problem instead of reinventing the wheel. 
- Kef
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