Leo Dictionary Widget

Select a word on a website and immediately look up its translation. No tabs, no windows. Guranteed!

Leo Dictionary Widget: Instant Translation

The 'Leo Dictionary Widget' is a Chrome extension that allows users to easily look up translations for words and phrases seen on websites. By simply selecting a word/phrase and pressing a keyboard shortcut (defaulting to Alt+W), the translation appears conveniently in the upper right corner within the browser window, hence no need for opening a new tab or window. The extension can be personalized, allowing users to set their preferred shortcut and language pair, and supports up to eight languages in combination with German. The Leo Dictionary Widget is your ultimate tool for seamless website translation.

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By: Jakob Buchgraber

Users: 5,000+

Rating: 3.72

(87)

Version: 2.4 (Last updated: 2017-04-20)

Creation date: 2017-04-20

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus

Size: 247.81K

Ranking

# 13,121 ▲ 33

Other rankings

#3724 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 10 #18 in widget keyword 19 ▼ 1 #35 in dictionary keyword 50 ▲ 5

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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This extension allows you to select a word or phrase on a website and to look it up in the LEO dictionary by simply pressing a keyboard shortcut. The dictionary pops up conveniently in the upper right corner inside your browser window. It does not open a new tab or window.

The shortcut defaults to Alt+W, however you can set it to virtually any shortcut in the options page. The language defaults to German - English and can also be configured in the options page.

Available languages are: English ⇔ German French ⇔ German Spanish ⇔ German Italian ⇔ German Chinese ⇔ German Russian ⇔ German Portuguese ⇔ German Polish ⇔ German

For feature requests and bug reports please contact me at [email protected].

User reviews

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Pros

Very handy widget for quick word lookups
Useful for translation and definitions
Offers a mobile version for easier viewing

Cons

Pop-up window is not resizable, making it difficult to read definitions
Cookie acceptance dialog is intrusive and reappears frequently
Displays a full web page instead of a small dialog for definitions
User interface is not consistent with initial expectations

Most mentioned

Non-resizable window
Cookie acceptance issues
Full page layout instead of small dialog
User agent problems affecting display

User reviews

does not work anymore

hgitz Guj, 2022-12-16

So frustrating! The dictionary opens in a pop up window that is too small to read the definitions, the window is not resizable, and it constantly asks to accept cookies. This makes it unusable. It's a pity...this would be so useful!

Zack Dubnoff, 2021-04-15

I really liked the extension, but recently the cookies acceptance dialog box is covering the dictionary windows that open up, and I have to manually close the cookies information window first before I can look up the meaning. It is really irritating doing it over and over again. Earlier I just had to press the shortcut key and get the meaning of the highlighted word on the side window that would pop out.