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Toggles between the installed dictionaries automatically or manually and displays the currently selected dictionary in the status bar.

See also: Dictionary Switcher for Thunderbird

Versions

2009-12-08: 1.0.1 @ AMO / local mirror
umlaut handling fixed
2008-06-23: 1.0
support for rich text editors (e.g. Gmail)
2008-06-04: 0.9
smarter auto-detection based on the host
default dictionary selection at startup fixed
added workaround for bug 436717
added support for Firefox 3.1a1pre
2008-05-27: 0.8.1
compatible with Firefox 3
2007-01-16: 0.8
experimental support for as-you-type detection
added a list of installed dictionaries to the context menu
localized: ko-KR
2007-01-02: 0.7.2
compatible with Firefox 3.0a2
localized: ca-AD, tr-TR
auto-detection enabled by default
2006-12-13: 0.7.1.3
small fix
2006-12-12: 0.7.1.2
small fix
2006-12-12: 0.7.1.1
bugfix for Firefox 2 (rechecking failed)
2006-12-12: 0.7.1
changing the dictionary on a site affects all textareas, if none is focused
fixed bug where the spellcheck UI would contain duplicated dictionary entries
2006-12-09: 0.7
automatically remember the dictionary when it has been changed manually for a site
don’t turn off auto-detection when the dictionary has been changed manually
predicate that the language was automatically detected only if it actually succeeded
2006-12-09: 0.6.3
label not highlighted but made bold if the dictionary is remembered for the current site
2006-11-28: 0.6.2
don’t recheck form field after switching language, if it’s not inside of the active tab
label highlighted if the dictionary is remembered for the current site
2006-11-26: 0.6.1
recheck form field after switching language (even if spellchecking UI hasn’t been initialized yet)
2006-11-26: 0.6
recheck form field after switching language
localized: hr, hu
2006-11-09: 0.5.4
localized: da, zh-TW, es-AR, pt-BR
2006-11-06: 0.5.3
localized: nl
2006-11-06: 0.5.2
some small fixes
localized: sv-SE
2006-11-06: 0.5.1
localized: fr, it, pl, ru, sk, uk-UA, zh-CN
2006-11-05: 0.5
internationalization
localized: de-DE
2006-11-04: 0.4.5
prevent memory leak
2006-11-03: 0.4.4
fixed: initialization fails when no dictionary was selected previously
2006-11-03: 0.4.3
fixed: initialization fails with blank startup page
2006-11-01: 0.4.2
some minor fixes
added support for Firefox 3.0a1
2006-10-03: 0.4.1
auto-detection
remember locale for sites

Comments / show all

  1. Jay wrote on July 8, 2009 07:00 PM BST ():
    Thomas, it doesn’t seem like it. Can’t see it on the status bar. I am maybe blind tho. Try it out and see if u can find it.
    Cheers
  2. Rick Surfer Refrus wrote on July 9, 2009 09:10 AM BST ():
    Thanks for the nice extension.
    I would like to use it in Mozilla Prism. I already added some stuff in installer.rdf for installation, changed the overlay/style in chrome.manifest and changed <statusbar id=“status-bar”> to <statusbar id=“statusbar”> in chrome/content/switch.xul. Now I see a field in the status bar from Dictionary Switcher but without content. I think it can’t be found the dictionaries. Can you give me hint. You can contact me via email, if you need further information.

    Thaks
    Rick
  3. edA-qa wrote on July 18, 2009 09:15 AM BST ():
    “Detect dictionaries as I Type” causes a several second pause whenever you click on a textarea in a new page. Turned off the pause doesn’t come.

    This is quite bothersome.
  4. Sanoj wrote on July 28, 2009 09:09 PM BST ():
    great plugin!!
  5. Noel wrote on July 30, 2009 08:56 PM BST ():
    Thank you. Works like a charm in 3.5.1.
  6. nizarus wrote on September 5, 2009 02:29 PM BST ():
    I have the same problem as “edA-qa” on firefox 3.5.2/ubuntu 9.4.
    When I turned it off the problem disappears
  7. Lena wrote on October 11, 2009 06:57 PM BST ():
    Incompatibility between Dictionary Switcher 1.0 and Modify Headers 0.6.6 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967 : if “Detect dictionary as I type” is on then after several hours of surfing and after that switching from X to console (under FreeBSD), Firefox (3.5.3, 3.0 too) can begin to stall and eat memory. If I do nothing then after several minutes it eats all memory and swap (SIZE over 2G):


    kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
    kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
    kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
    kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
    kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
    kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
    kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
    kernel: pid 8435 (firefox-bin), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space

    If I disable one of these two extensions or switch “Detect dictionary as I type” off then no problem.
    Took me a while to understand that it’s incompatibility between extensions and find out which ones. Then for a test I disabled all extensions except these two.
  8. Tero Nieminen wrote on November 10, 2009 03:16 PM GMT ():
    Does not seem to install into FF 3.5.4 (fails compatibility tests) despite that it claims:

    ---
    Version 1.0
    Works with Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6a1pre
    ---
  9. Bogdan Butnaru wrote on November 10, 2009 04:13 PM GMT ():
    Hello! I’m using DS 1.0 with FF 3.5.4.

    It seems to work very well in most sites. However, it doesn’t seem to work very well in GMail.

    It _does_ sometimes change the language while I type, but at other times it doesn’t. I can’t figure out a complete pattern, because I don’t remember to check what it’s doing while I’m working.

    I’ve tried opening a “compose” page, and alternatively erasing and typing in the subject and message boxes, in various languages. Sometimes it catches language switches, sometimes it doesn’t.

    The only regular thing I notice is that the first time I’m opening the “compose” page, DS never picks up the language I’m typing in; instead, it always seems to remain blocked on whatever language it was on when I opened the page. I think my signature is confusing it: it’s only my name, but it’s in a user dictionary (since none of the languages I use have my name in the dictionary).

    The above was a bug report, the following is a feature request :)

    I often use more than one language in texts I write. Mostly this means using English technical terms in another language, but sometimes I mix expressions from several languages at the same time. I’d very much like it if DS would use a different marking (e.g., yellow underlining) for words (or phrases) that are not in the “main” language of the text, but that are correct according to another dictionary.

    The marking would draw my attention, thus allowing me to notice cases where a typo just happens to match a word in another language, but being different from the “misspelled word” it allows me to ignore it when I actually intended to use a different language.

    I imagine this would be a much more complex behavior change than what DS does at the moment, but it would be nice to know if it’ll ever happen.
  10. Tero Nieminen wrote on November 11, 2009 02:50 PM GMT ():
    Does not seem to install into FF 3.5.4 (fails compatibility tests) despite that it claims:

    ---
    Version 1.0
    Works with Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6a1pre
    ---
    Does not seem to install into FF 3.5.4 (fails compatibility tests) despite that it claims:

    ---
    Version 1.0
    Works with Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6a1pre
    ---
    Just in case: Install fails for me with FF 3.5.4 mozilla.org binary distribution under Fedora 8 (ie. not Fedora rpm).
  11. Tero Nieminen wrote on November 13, 2009 02:15 PM GMT ():
    Does not seem to install into FF 3.5.4 (fails compatibility tests) despite that it claims:

    ---
    Version 1.0
    Works with Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6a1pre
    ---

    Just in case: Install fails for me with FF 3.5.4 mozilla.org binary distribution under Fedora 8 (ie. not Fedora rpm).
    Seems to install into FF 3.5.5 (mozilla.org binary distribution) and fc8).
  12. Chas wrote on November 16, 2009 12:47 AM GMT ():
    Dictionary Switcher 1.0 - It would be nice if the padding to the Left & Right of the StatusBar wording was not so large. My other Extension all seem to be around 10px.

    FF3.5.5 - Mac OS 10.5.8
    Theme - Mostly Crystal 3.5.1 (modified for Mac OS)
    Other StatusBar Ext - FlagFox, FoxClocks, QuickPageZoom
  13. simon wrote on December 1, 2009 10:07 AM GMT ():
    i does not install for me under ff 3.5.5
  14. Johan Walles wrote on December 8, 2009 12:52 PM GMT ():
    1.0 works very sporadically on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009102815 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.15.

    Having responses to this e-mailed to johan.walles@gmail.com would be great!

    Try this:
    * Open GMail (Swedish UI in case that matters).
    * Start composing a new e-mail.
    * Write a sentence in Swedish in the mail-text field (I tried “Det här är kungens svenska”).
    * My status bar says: “auto: en-AU” (Swedish expected).
    * Switch to a new tab and back.
    * My status bar now says “auto: sv”. Seems correct, but why did I have to switch tabs?
    * Press an arrow key to move the cursor. The status bar changes to “auto: en_US”. Expected Swedish.

    Enabled options:
    “Detect dictionary as I type”
    “Ställ in språk automatiskt” (set language automatically).

    Disabled options:
    “Kom ihåg vald ordlista för denna webbplats” (remember selected dictionary for this web site).
  15. geek wrote on January 4, 2010 07:05 AM GMT ():
    please make the icon visible in the navigation toolbar too, not just in the statusbar. Thanks!
  16. Guido wrote on January 10, 2010 08:02 PM GMT ():
    It would be a nice feature if the add-on would take less space in your status bar by displaying a flag for the current language it’s using. When using auto-detect it shouldn’t display it but just show the flag.
  17. Szabolcs wrote on February 1, 2010 02:32 PM GMT ():
    Hello,

    Have you considered adding an option to use Google’s language detection API for better accuracy and performance? This obviously has drawbacks and cannot work in all situations (and might even require manually setting the preferred dictionary for each language), but I think it’ll work in the majority of cases. And when it works, it might actually work better than the current way.

    Problems with the current method are bad performance (occasional hangs) and very low accuracy when many dictionaries are installed. For example, while typing five relatively long sentences in Hungarian in Gmail, it started out with en-US, then kept switching back and forth between the British and the Greek-English combined dictionaries. But not once did it switch to the Hungarian one.
  18. Borek wrote on February 7, 2010 04:54 PM GMT ():
    When writing a new email in Czech in GMail, and after having about 2 lines written, this addon incorrectly switches to en-US which is weird because in cs_CZ, there are almost none red squiggly lines while after the switch, my text goes all red. The only options selected is “Detect dictionary as I type”, the other two are unchecked. Is this a known issue?
  19. René wrote on February 22, 2010 09:19 PM GMT ():
    Die Anzeige in der Statusleiste funktioniert im FF 3.6 bei mir nicht.

    Woran könnte das liegen?
  20. AnthonyDa wrote on February 25, 2010 03:51 PM GMT ():
    Hi, can you please add Chatzilla support for this extension ? Thx.

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