WikiLook

Very simple!

Just press Ctrl or Shift or Alt and make a RightMouseButton click on a word.

And you can do that over text selected by the mouse. For example, you can highlight DNA repair with your mouse and look it up by pressing Ctrl and RightMouseButton click over the selection.

Please use "A"-style icon at the bottom right corner of Firefox/SeaMonkey/Flock to toggle WikiLook on/off.

You can go WikiLook option dialog by clicking on a green button located in a top left corner of WikiLook pop-up, and change parsers from default WikiMedia/Wikia English editions to URLs that point into your preferred language. For example, you can point to French language Wikis by changing parsers to:

• http://fr.wiktionary.org
• http://fr.wikipedia.org
• http://desencyclopedie.wikia.com

For Spanish that would be:

• http://es.wiktionary.org
• http://es.wikipedia.org
• http://inciclopedia.wikia.com

etc.

WikiLook could parse virtually any WikiCode based web site, as long as web site serve WikiCode through default bot interface. And there is dozens of thousands such web sites in the Internet!

It is disabled by default in latest versions of WikiLook. The option is there, you just need to enable it on fresh installation of Firefox/SeaMonkey/Flock. It was disabled because it somewhat aggressive (by design) in showing up pop-ups. But it still extremely convenient way to look up words/idioms, and we encourage new users to give it a try. And this way you can look up words just using your mouse, without need to use a keyboard. After MouseLook was enabled:

• Highlight any idiom(sic!) or word with your mouse.
• Move mouse pointer just a bit, still holding it over selected word.
• Wait half a second.

• Press and hold Shift key
• Move mouse pointer just a bit, still holding it over selected word.
• Wait half a second.
The other way, moving mouse first and then pressing Shift will not work, to make sure add-on won't interfere, when user decided to type some text.

You probably running Firefox/SeaMonkey on a *nix system (Linux, BSD, etc.). Unfortunately, some Window Managers reserve that combination for predefined actions. You can change your Window Manager settings or use other built in methods of WikiLook pop-up call.

Please use standard built it functionality of your browser, that is while you clicking on a link, hold Ctrl key. This way you can always control where the page is open. And this way would work on another pages/in different add-ons.