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Isn’t it cool when you get annoyed with your computer and wish it would do x, y or z and then a quick google search later you find someone else thought the exact same thing and wrote a plugin for firefox.

I was getting annoyed that to find a definition of a word while I was browsing I had to double click it, right click, choose ’search web for…’, switch tabs to the new google results page, type ‘define:’ in front of the query and resubmit the results.

I was thinking it would be much easier just to highlight a word right click choose define and have the results loaded into an inline frame and not have to move from the open browsing tab.

Apparently Eugene thought so too

Inline Google Definitions

This plugin is really cool actually, really useful in schools etc for improving vocabulary.

Give it a try and you will find yourself learning new words every day just because it’s so fast and easy to use it’s simpler to find out what a word means than to stare at it for a couple of seconds wondering…

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