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Installation

Install the latest version: dict-0.6.73.xpi.

Changelog

dict-0.6.73.xpi

• Change the menu text to "Look Up" to be more accurate.
• Include Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 in the supported version.

dict-0.6.72.xpi

• Modify the supported versions to include Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 and Thunderbird 2.0.
• Updated the default set of DICT servers available in the preferences.

dict-0.6.71.xpi

• Modify the supported versions to include Firefox 2.0.
• Fix bug #15303; Dict now replaces *all* consecuative runs of whitespace with a single space, not just the first one.
• Update the set of defaults DICT servers to match what's really out there.
• Add a "Reset Servers" button in the preferences panel, since people who upgrade Dict (instead of doing a clean install) will have stale server entries.

dict-0.6.70.xpi

• Modify the supported versions to include Thunderbird 1.5 and Firefox 1.5.0.1. The large jump in the micro version does not indicate any significant change to the code; it just works around a sorting bug in updates.mozilla.org.

dict-0.6.14.xpi

• Removed support for Thunderbird 1.5 so that I could upload dict to mozilla.org in time for the release of Firefox 1.5.

dict-0.6.13.xpi

• Update the supported products to include Thunderbird 1.5.

dict-0.6.12.xpi

• Fix bug #11582; Dict no longer strips out non-ASCII-7 characters from the beginning and ending of the selected text on Firefox 1.5.

dict-0.6.11.xpi

• Update the supported products to include Firefox 1.5.

dict-0.6.10.xpi

• Add a chrome.manifest file for compatibility with Firefox 1.1.

dict-0.6.9.xpi

• Fix bug #11300; Dict is now compatible with Tabbrowser Extension 1.14.2005082201 on Firefox 1.0.6.

dict-0.6.8.xpi

• Fix bug #10560; The "dict-page" CSS class now applies to the entire page, not just the outer-most DIV tag.

dict-0.6.7.xpi

• Make Dict compatible with Firefox 1.1 (tested on the "Deer Park" pre-release).

dict-0.6.6.xpi

• Fix bug #9874; Dict is now compatible with Firefox 1.0.3.

dict-0.6.5.xpi

• Fix JavaScript warnings in pref.js.
• Fix a bug where non-ASCII characters were not displayed properly in the new "Closest Matches" XUL dialog.

dict-0.6.4.xpi

• Fix typos in the preferences panel.
• Fix bug #9401; The "Closest Matches" dialog is now functional in Thunderbird.
• Fix bug #9411; Scrollbars now appear in popup windows in Mozilla 1.8.

dict-0.6.3.xpi

• Fix bug #9384; Dict now works on Thunderbird on Windows 98.
• Start to restructure the way the list of "known servers" works. Instead of being hard-coded in JavaScript, they are read from the preferences. This is still no official UI for configuring them.

dict-0.6.2.xpi

• Fix bug #9103; Dict no longer sizes the main window when Tabbrowser Extension is configured to be in "single window mode".

dict-0.6.1.xpi

• Dict now works in Thunderbird's composer.

dict-0.6.0.xpi

• Fix bug #6016; Dict protocol handler now supports match URIs.
• Dict now works in Thunderbird (but works rather poorly).
• Fix bug #7729; Dict now unescapes words in dict URIs.
• The Dict protocol handler's "Closest Matches" page now has hyperlinks.
• Fix bug #8906; Dict protocol handler not longer locks up when contacting a server that does not exist.
• Fix bug #8916; Dict protocol handler now honors the "database" parameter when presenting matches from a "define" URI.

dict-0.5.22.xpi

• Fix bug #8676; Dict is now compatible with the Mozilla Archive Format extension.
• Fix bug #8896; Dict no longer throws "Reference Error: DictClient not defined" error in Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 6.

dict-0.5.20.xpi

• Fix bug #8412; if DownloadStatusBar has >40 items and resizes the window to something narrower than the definition, dict will correct the window's width to match the width of the definition.
• Fix bug #7664; Dict now diplays an informative error message when Firefox/Mozilla is in offline mode.
• Add a prefix to some global symbols that may have been used by other extensions. This eliminates some potential extension-to-extension incompatibilities.

dict-0.5.18.xpi

• Fix bug #8121; Dict now properly encodes everything it sends in UTF-8.

dict-0.5.16.xpi

• Fix bug #7883. This was a major regression that made it so that Dict wouldn't work at all if installed on a clean system (and would hang Mozilla/Firefox if you tried to configure it).

dict-0.5.14.xpi

• Fix bug #7759; the Windows Mozilla installer no longer shows a spurious error code 999 on success.

dict-0.5.12.xpi

• Mozilla installer has been streamlined and displays more informative messages on error.
• HTML formatting changed from tables to CSS. CSS styles can be overridden in $MOZDIR/chrome/userContent.css.
• Fix bug #6116; the dict protocol handler now correctly processes the index compontent of dict URLs.
• Revamp the interface to the protocol back-end so that the protocol code does not do any formatting. This does not affect the usage of the extension, but it makes it easier for other developers to re-use the back-end.
• Set the maxVersion to include Firefox 1.0.

dict-0.5.10.xpi

• Set the maxVersion to include Firefox 1.0 PR.
• Fix bug #6948; the dict protocol handler now correctly shows characters with multi-byte encodings in UTF-8 in Firefox.

dict-0.5.8.xpi

• Fix bug #6894; the Dict extension is now compatible with the Mouse Gestures extension in Firefox

dict-0.5.6.xpi

• Fix bug #6517; the Dict extension now works with the Extension Manager in Firefox 0.9

dict-0.5.4.xpi

• Fix bug #5696; the Dict extension now works with Firefox

dict-0.5.2.xpi

• Fix bug #6107; now using a dict:// URI to define a word in an unknown database returns an informative error message
• Add support for defining a selection in Mozilla Messenger's message pane. You still cannot define a selection when composing a message, however

dict-0.5.0.xpi

• Add rudimentary support for the "dict" protocol scheme:
  1. only supports "/d:" URIs
  2. only works if you install as root
  3. does not support the ":n" index
  4. improper semantics: defining an out-of-vocabulary word, may return a list of close matches, instead of an error message
  5. results are returned in HTML
  6. results are not streamed back
  7. when opening a dict link in a new tab, the mozilla icon does not stop spinning
  8. displays misleading error messages when defining from a database that does not exist
• Fix bug #5740; now dict tells you if the server you are trying to reach is not available
• Fix bug #5620; now dict properly unescapes periods
• Add warning messages for when the server is temporarily unavailable, is being shut-down, and/or requires authentication
• Add the version string to the preferences dialog, so the user can figure out what version they have

dict-0.3.2.xpi

• Fix bug #5725; Now UTF-8 is supported (but is very, very slow)
• Multiple definitions form the same database are displayed under the same header
• A DICT server running on localhost can be selected from the preferences menu

dict-0.3.0.xpi

• 20% faster to define words for high-latency servers
• Fix bug #5622; now typos are spelled correctly in the definition's title bar
• Fix bug #5621; now the user can select a default DICT server
• Fix bug #5619; add text to explain how to continue from the "Closest Matches" window

dict-0.2.0.xpi

• Shows closest matches when selection has no definition
• Shows the definition of the closest match when word had no definition and only there is only one closest match
• Can now define multi-word selections, like "George Washington"
• Automatic removal of non-alpha-numeric characters from begining and end of selection for when double-clicking on a word includes adjacent punctuation

dict-0.0.3.xpi

• Initial Release
• Basic support for defining selections