Advanced features
Open: chrome://extensions/shortcuts
You can set customizable shortcut keys. If you are a right-handed mouse user, you can create left-handed shortcut keys. (e.g. ALT+Z)
If you select some text, the display in the Mouse Dictionary window is locked. Double-click the window so that you can drag and select text in the window.
This behavior is useful for:
- looking up words in the Mouse Dictionary window
- copying the text in the Mouse Dictionary window
Double-click the edges of the window.
You can use Mouse Dictionary even in PDF documents, with little effort!
There are several ways.
- PDF.js demo site
- Dropbox
- Google document
Open the PDF.js demo site. https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
Upload a PDF file and open it.
Upload a PDF file and open it via the Dropbox web interface.
Upload a PDF file to the site, and open as a Google document.
From the options screen, you can easily customize basic settings.
- Initial window position/size
- Turn on/off the scroll bar
- Change font size/color
- Change background colors
- And so on...
You can even customize the display of the dictionary as you like. Here are some examples which are suitable for language learners.
- Click and open Google image search
- Click and search synonyms/antonyms
- Click and search collocations
These can accelerate your language learning dramatically.
Open "advanced settings" in the options screen, and change "Description" in "HTML templates" section.
In order to write templates, some knowledge of HTML is needed. But If you wrote your own templates, you can make the most of Mouse Dictionary, and that accelerates your language leaning!
More details: HTML templates