Mouse Dictionary: Super Fast Dictionary

Mouse Dictionary is a super fast dictionary for Chrome and Firefox.

Features:

• Blazing fast
• Detect phrases in text intelligently
• You can import your own text data
• Divide special expression into individual words and look them up at once(e.g. camelCase, snake_case)
• Customizable

Download it.

• For Chrome
• For Firefox

Use it:

• Getting started

Screenshots

English-Japanese

Japanese-English

German

Want to use for the German language? Take a look these great articles!

• MOUSE DICTIONARY MIT WADOKU-WÖRTERBUCH
• MOUSE DICTIONARY 2

How to develop

Use npm 6+.

Preparation:

npm install

For Chrome:

npm run build-chrome

For Firefox:

npm run build-firefox

Cross-extension messaging

Mouse Dictionary supports receiving cross-extension messages. One example of an extension that implements sending message to this extension is Mouse Dictionary iframe support.

Here is a code example for sending a message to Mouse Dictionary. You can make Mouse Dictionary look up words/expressions from other extensions.

const MD_EXTENSION_ID = "dnclbikcihnpjohihfcmmldgkjnebgnj";

chrome.runtime.sendMessage(MD_EXTENSION_ID, {
  type: "text",
  text: "rained cats and dogs"
});

Parameters:

name	type	value
type	string	must be "text"
text	string	text you want to look up

License

Mouse Dictionary is published under the MIT license.

Third-party data

This project includes some third-party data:

Dictionary data

ejdic-hand

• https://github.com/kujirahand/EJDict
• License: Public domain

Images

bookmark icon, gear icon

• https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/wpzoom-developer-icon-set
• License: Creative Commons (Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)

See also

Chrome 拡張の高速な英語辞書ツールをつくりました(a Japanese tutorial)