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A trick for Firefox

The theme of this post is not about LaTeX, really, but since many of those who use LaTeX is dedicated to writing, sometimes in other languages, I think this little trick can be useful to more than one. This is a quick shortcut from Firefox , quickly translate a word or expression in different languages, making use of Google services . Run your browser to the Google translator of

, where you will see a box where you enter text, preceded by the message Write one word: (or Enter word:
if you access the English version of the page) and a dropdown list of possible translations. drop-down list Choose the option "English-English " if it was not previously chosen. Put the mouse in the box to enter text and click the right button. In the context menu should be an option that says "

Add a keyword for this search ... "(if you use the English version of Firefox say"

Add a Keyword for this search ...

). Choose that option. This will insert a bookmark in the bookmarks list, and some more.

will leave a dialogue, asking:

Name: is the name of the bookmark. Put whatever you want, for example English-English Dictionary Google

1. Keyword: This is good, here you can put a "shortcut" consisting of a few letters in order to use this dictionary as lightning. For example, I've put here i2e , sui-generis abbreviation of "English to English "
2. Create in: is the folder where you saved the bookmark. Put it to your liking, total, thanks to the keyword, you never need to use your menu bookmarks to access it
3. Is everything? You can close the Google translator. Now say you have a word in English that you translate, for example slick. Enough to create a new tab in Firefox and go to the place where you type the URL (press Ctrl-T to create the tab and Ctrl + L to go quickly to the entry of URLs, without using the mouse). Writes there "i2e slick" (no quotes)
keyword "i2e 'cause Firefox go to google translator URL and fill in the search field to put behind the words (in this case" slick ") , sending all to Google and showing response. Instant translation.
4. Repeat the above but with different meanings of translation, for example English-> English (keyword 'e2i'). The trick works with any page with a search form. For example, I have defined the key word 'w' for immediate search in the English wikipedia, and "we" for the English wikipedia.
   • I find it very useful. I wanted to share.