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Allow searching for a word without selecting it

Open ygoe opened this issue 8 years ago • 5 comments

SmartSearch can search for the word that is being clicked on, without first selecting it. This is extremely helpful because most lookups I do are for a single word.

ygoe avatar Aug 18 '17 11:08 ygoe

This issue depends on #4. It would be really confusing otherwise.

NumeriusNegidius avatar Aug 21 '17 09:08 NumeriusNegidius

Agreed.

ygoe avatar Aug 21 '17 09:08 ygoe

Now that #4 is fixed, there is a new issue where the right-clicked word must be handled by a content script. The content script can send text to the background script (where the context menu code lives) but the menu root label cannot be updated in realtime. This results in the label showing the previous text and not the current text as expected. This is the same issue as #19 and thus depends on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215376.

NumeriusNegidius avatar Sep 26 '17 18:09 NumeriusNegidius

Note that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215376 is closed now.

somini avatar May 08 '21 16:05 somini

@NumeriusNegidius As far as I understand it, fixing the mentioned hyperlink text issue (#19) should also allow fixing this issue, right? Could you please take a look at it again?

ygoe avatar Jan 24 '22 23:01 ygoe