> From: Corwin Brust [mailto:corwin at mpls.cx] > > Howard Brazee wrote: > > > I have a bookmark on the top of my browser that makes looking words up > > easy: > > I have a plugin for firefox[1] which does basicly the same thing. It > gives you a right click option to lookup words (using dictionary.com by > default.) Highlight the word, right click and select "Dictionary search > for [highlighted word]". Firefox only, but pretty nice. > > [1] > https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=fire > fox&version=1.0&id=68 Opera has a similar functionality I believe by default, at least I haven't installed any plugins of that nature that I'm aware of. Double click on a word to highlight the word and open a context menu. There's a Dictionary option that forwards the currently active page to infoplease.com. I assume you can change the default site, but I haven't bothered to figure out how.