jstardict

Lookup stardict format dictionarys in browser by selecting text in webpage.

To look up with this add-on, first, you have to prepare your own dict files, and load them into this add-on in the option page. jstardict work offline totally. it does not track or telemetry anything.

behavior

In webpage, jstardict inject itself in the 2 different ways, global or next n tabs after popup.

• Global: select text in any website will show up a popup button. this is default, and user need to reload the page after intall or change to this mode.

• Next n tabs after popup: select text will show up a popup button after user click jstardict button in toolbox, and the next n tabs after click the button.

To popup, jstardict can react to text selection or copy.

• select: look up button will show up when any text get selected. click it make jstardict to look up.

• copy: look up button will not show up. However, if any text get copy, jstardict will look up it without show up the button. This work well on mobile devices.

permission

It is recommanded to allow this add-on to Access your data for all websites , or you may need to allow it everytime you want to use this add-on in a new website.

you can grant this in permission tab of the option page. <button class="option-page popup-only">open the option page</button>

credit

Thank to https://framagit.org/tuxor1337/stardict.js</a" rel="noopener" target="_blank">stardict.js by Thomas Vogt. This add-on is build around it.

Thank to the creator of the https://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/index_en.php</a" rel="noopener" target="_blank">stardict 胡正 (Hu Zheng).