mid - Mozilla Internet Dictionary

Short Description

Mozilla Internet Dictionary - mid - is a tabbed dictionary browser using the dictionary resources of the Internet. It can save you having to manually track down the best reference material on the Net by making available an assortment of reliable and well-respected searchable dictionaries and encyclopaedias in a single tabbed interface. See screenshots. It is pre-loaded with lots of dictionaries and users can customize it to use their preferred ones.

The bravest can edit dictionaries.xml in mid.jar by hand.

All the searchable services offered up by mid are already available on the Internet, so you don't need to use mid to get access to them. Nevertheless, because it provides a one-stop-shop for all this useful reference material you're more likely to consult mid than manually visit each of the websites in question.

You can contact me, Attila Szabo the author, request for new dictionaries, suggest new features or offer your help as a programmer to enhance the project. Any help and opinion would be greatly appreciated. You can write me to my Google mail address:

szabo.attila.ivan

Intended Audience

This heavy-weight dictionary application is aimed mainly at ardent dictionary users, linguists or foreign language learners. For "light-weight" firefox dictionary extensions refer to the links below.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to mozdev.org for hosting this site,
Mozdev's project-owners mailing list members for their precious help,
to babelzilla.org for organizing translations,
to Stephen Clavering for the code of his Flowing tabs extension
to Karoly Lieszkovszky for icons
and to lots of other users who suggested interesting features to be added and new dictionaries to be included.

I'd also like to express my thanks to other mozilla/firefox projects that helped me in the developement process. I borrowed many dictionary definitions from the mycoft.mozdev.org's database. OpenSearchfox and Web Developer extensions also helped me a lot.

Related Projects

Other language related add-ons for firefox can also be found at: https://addons.mozilla.org/