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Displays the currently selected dictionary in the status bar and allows to change it.

See also: Dictionary Switcher for Firefox

Versions

2009-12-08: 1.1.5 @ AMO / local mirror
umlaut handling fixed
2009-11-24: 1.1.4
updated for Thunderbird 3
2007-09-16: 1.1.3
hidden pref added: extensions.dictionary-switcher.autodetect (off by default)
compatibility update for Thunderbird trunk
2007-02-09: 1.1.2
compatibility update for Thunderbird 2.0b2 and above
Thunderbird 1.5 support dropped
2007-01-18: 1.1.1
tries to determine the correct dictionary twice (after 15 and 30 characters)
code cleanup
2007-01-16: 1.1
introducing as-you-type detection
added a context menu with all available dictionaries
2006-12-05: 1.0.1
compatible with Thunderbird 1.5
2006-11-29: 1.0
initial release

Comments / show all

  1. Tinshed wrote on August 16, 2009 06:37 AM BST ():
    Hello - just echoing many other comments. This is a very useful extension for those of us who work in multiple languages in Thunderbird. Also a plea to have in updated to Thunderbird 3.x. I “hacked” the xpi file to make it pass the version compatibility test, but unfortunately the Options button is greyed out. Sigh. I am sure there would be many, many of us who would be grateful to have some more work done of this extension. If you had a “tip jar”, I’d gladly contribute.

    Regards,
    Tinshed
  2. vinpao wrote on September 23, 2009 06:19 PM BST ():
    This is one of the most useful plug-ins for Thunderbird.

    It would be great to be able to keep it with the newest TB versions.

    Many many thanks
  3. Michael wrote on October 3, 2009 04:20 PM BST ():
    Das wäre sehr schön!! Ich schreibe 50% engl. und 50% deutsch, da ist das sehr praktisch…
    Danke!
    Hallo wie kann man die neue versteckte Option aktivieren
  4. Cas wrote on November 5, 2009 02:36 PM GMT ():
    Thanks for this great extension!

    I miss it every day since I switched to TB3. Hope you can make it compatible.

    Thanks again!
  5. popxunga wrote on November 18, 2009 04:43 PM GMT ():
    Hello ..
    For those missing this great extension working in TB 3 I’ve just modified file install.rdf as follows:

    Original: <em:maxVersion>3.0a1</em:maxVersion>
    Modified:<em:maxVersion>3.0</em:maxVersion>

    When using Windows XP you may find this file here:
    C:\Documents and Settings\<your_user_id>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default\<your_profile_name>.slt\extensions\dictionary-switcher-tb@design-noir.de

    From some brief testing I’ve done it seems Dictionary Switcher works without problems.

    Anyway… try at your own risk but don’t forget to backup before modify !
    PX
  6. popxunga wrote on November 18, 2009 05:49 PM GMT ():
    Hello again …
    It may be necessary to change also the file extensions.rdf located here:
    C:\Documents and Settings\<your_user_id>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default\<your_profile_name>.slt
    Search it for the Dictionary Switcher id that you may found in the install.rdf.
    It is: {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}
    Then modify the line:
    NS1:maxVersion=“3.0a1” with NS1:maxVersion=“3.0”.
    Once again try at your own risk but don’t forget to backup before modify !
    PX
  7. Lowie wrote on November 19, 2009 10:25 AM GMT ():
    To have a small list of dictionaries to choose from, the following has been suggested by Kristian:
    this.list = ’de_DE,en_GB’;
    this.list = this.list.value.toString().split(’,’);
    However, this did not work for me. What did work is:

    this.list.value = ’de_DE,en_GB’;
    this.list = this.list.value.toString().split(’,’);

    Note that I added “value” to the first line.

    It would be great if this would become a feature, accessible under the properties of this Add-on.
  8. Philippe wrote on November 24, 2009 06:15 PM GMT ():
    Great! Thanks a lot for the update!!
  9. Cas wrote on December 3, 2009 06:45 PM GMT ():
    Thanks for the TB3 update!!!
  10. psjulek wrote on December 7, 2009 08:32 AM GMT ():
    Hi,
    The switch Is great !

    However using Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 beware for update to Dictionary Swich 1.1.4 - You will not see it working. You will need to uninstall it, and then install version 1.1.3

    best regards to You Dao !
  11. Sergey Rozhenko wrote on January 11, 2010 04:51 PM GMT ():
    Auto-detection doesn’t work. It doesn’t switch between Russian and English.
    I have version 1.1.5 and Thunderbird 3.0.
  12. R wrote on January 24, 2010 05:20 PM GMT ():
    Hi,

    I am using TB 2.0.0.23 and try to get the autoswitching to work. While in the Firefox-extension the switch from de-DE to en-US works fine I can’t get it to work in Thunderbird.

    I have set the pref extensions.dictionary-switcher.autodetect to true but that doesn’t seem to change anything. Are there any other requirements to get this feature to work?
  13. ARF wrote on March 15, 2010 11:41 AM GMT ():
    I particularly like the auto-detection feature. There is however one improvement I can see: take an initial guess after the e.g. first recipient of a message is completed. The TLD should give a good indication of the language:

    e.g. user@domain.fr is likely to get an email in French…

    This should generally get rid of the slight delay of switching directories if the initial directory was wrong and should in most cases avoid the ugly red lines that remain in the subject line even after the language has been switched.
  14. alibum wrote on April 20, 2010 11:00 AM BST ():
    I really like it.
    But one question: Is there a keyboard short cut to switch the languanges? Stop typing and grabbing the mouse to make 2 clicks eats my time away … (yes its like 50 times a day, thats 2 secs. x 50 = 100 Secs a day, 500 a week etc.)
    I am pretty sure there is one …

    Merci.
  15. Michael Schmidt wrote on June 24, 2010 06:48 PM BST ():
    Can You please, blease, please support Thunderbird 3.1. It is a good Extention.
  16. Erik wrote on June 25, 2010 08:04 AM BST ():
    Thunderbird updates to version 3.1 this morning, mentioning that the excellent directory switcher is incompatible now and will be disabled :(
    I miss it already!

    Any change on an updated version please?
  17. Andrea wrote on June 25, 2010 01:55 PM BST ():
    This is a “must have” extension, so I’ll roll-back to Thunderbird 3.0.x until Dictionary Switcher will “handle” the new version! Good job, go ahead ;)
  18. Clem wrote on June 25, 2010 05:08 PM BST ():
    I also hope that there will be a version for TB 3.1 soon. Meanwhile, I am not upgrading TB since Dictionary Switcher remains essential to me (French, English, and Italian). Such a good add-on!
  19. Marc wrote on June 28, 2010 10:42 AM BST ():
    When will the update for TB 3.1 be available?
  20. Gianfranco wrote on August 25, 2010 06:43 PM BST ():
    >Feature Suggestion:

    Is it possible for the Extention to remember the same way in Firefox it guesses which language is for which website, which language is for which email (.co.uk, .de., .it, .es, etc), but also for emails like gmail which are all (dot)com.
    Just store some id which tells that with this person i always speak English, with this one German, etc.

    Just an idea, which would be very welcome by a lot of people!

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