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english dictionary add-on

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jmrpjb
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I'm trying to install an english dictionary but after clicking "install" it asks me to restart my computer. So I click restart but it doesn't respond. When I use the restart function from the start menu, my computer does restart but the add-on dictionary is not "added on".

Can someone please help me with this? Thank you

I'm trying to install an english dictionary but after clicking "install" it asks me to restart my computer. So I click restart but it doesn't respond. When I use the restart function from the start menu, my computer does restart but the add-on dictionary is not "added on". Can someone please help me with this? Thank you

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from the above site dictionary.com you can go from tools :

http://dictionary.reference.com/tools to Free Firefox Plug-ins :

http://dictionary.reference.com/tools/firefox.html

and then to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ , here you can find Search Engine Plugins

(and dictionary) see : http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=dictionary

Cambridge British English Dictionary and so on....

see also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_plugin

i don't want to confuse you


thanks again

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ideato
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The english dictionary add-on, is from the official site with add-on : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/ and if it is, which is the add-on ?


thank you

jmrpjb
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Hi, thanks for getting back to me. I found a site: dictionary.com and have bookmarked it so I can access that site when I need to look up a word. I think my problem was I was trying to get a dictionary as an "add-on" (similar to a news add-on or a translator add-on) but I wasn't able to do that. Bookmarking the dictionary site works for me so I guess my problem has been solved.

(I'm still very new to cyberspace so if my explanation sounds completely "out there", that's the reason.)

Thank you again for your time

ideato
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from the above site dictionary.com you can go from tools :

http://dictionary.reference.com/tools to Free Firefox Plug-ins :

http://dictionary.reference.com/tools/firefox.html

and then to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ , here you can find Search Engine Plugins

(and dictionary) see : http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=dictionary

Cambridge British English Dictionary and so on....

see also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_plugin

i don't want to confuse you


thanks again

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