gHacks technology news » firefox wikipedia http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 QuickWiki Integrates Wiktionary And Wikipedia Into Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/22/quickwiki-integrates-wiktionary-and-wikipedia-into-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/22/quickwiki-integrates-wiktionary-and-wikipedia-into-firefox/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:37:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10699 QuickWiki is a handy experimental Firefox add-on for users who work with Wikipedia and Wiktionary regularly. The Firefox add-on adds a quick look up feature into the web browser that can be used to quickly gain information about a selected word or phrase on a website. QuickWiki opens the information that it has retrieved in an overlay on the same page unlike other add-ons that open the information in a new tab or window.

The results are shown pretty fast, it usually took less than a second for them to be displayed on the page. The Firefox add-on makes use of three different keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Pressing Shift and clicking the right-mouse button will look up the selected word in Wiktionary, while Ctrl and the right-mouse button will look it up in Wikipedia. The last shortcut can be used to open the quick search dialog. The shortcuts can be customized which might be necessary depending on other add-ons installed on the computer.

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QuickWiki is an experimental Firefox add-on. This means that it can only be downloaded and installed after logging into the Mozilla website. It has to be noted that the add-on is currently only working with the English language portals of both Wikipedia and Wiktionary.

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