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Comfy.n · 09-17-2022, 10:58 PM

Hi!

This is not a plugin idea, but rather a browser extension... anyway:

I use this add-on on waterfox classic. (this one works for me only when called from context menu, but not from the toolbar button, so I prefer the former)

Those add-ons enable me to have a Goldendict toolbar button and a shortcut key that allow me to select text on a webpage and have the dictionary program open and look it up seamlessly.

Analogously, it would be awesome if one could select text on a webpage and have Calibre open a FTS search for the selected text.

As Goldendict is also a QT based program, I suspect this might be feasible...

I've tried adding Calibre to the newer External Application add-on, but I couldn't get the selected text to be passed to the Calibre search bar either.

09-17-2022, 10:58 PM	#1671
Comfy.n want to learn what I want Posts: 1,641 Karma: 7908443 Join Date: Sep 2020 Device: none	Hi! This is not a plugin idea, but rather a browser extension... anyway: I use this add-on on waterfox classic. (this one works for me only when called from context menu, but not from the toolbar button, so I prefer the former) Those add-ons enable me to have a Goldendict toolbar button and a shortcut key that allow me to select text on a webpage and have the dictionary program open and look it up seamlessly. Analogously, it would be awesome if one could select text on a webpage and have Calibre open a FTS search for the selected text. As Goldendict is also a QT based program, I suspect this might be feasible... I've tried adding Calibre to the newer External Application add-on, but I couldn't get the selected text to be passed to the Calibre search bar either.