Add-ons
Reviews for Dictionary Switcher
179 reviews for this add-on
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
The automatic recognition is far more handy than the dropdown list at the side of the Spelling button.
When you have time, if you can migrate it to Firefox Quantum ...
Not to forget : I learned in a forum that in recent versions of Thunderbird you have to go to the configuration editor, change "extensions.dictionary-switcher.autodetect" from false to true. It would be a good idea to write that in the documentation.
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
I would pay for an updated version of this
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This add-on is one of those gems you rely on without giving much attention to it. One it's gone you now how much you liked it. It does its work without being interruptive. So I'm really sorry this extension is not compatible with Firefox Quantum at the moment. I hope it will be revived. Thanks!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Will it work with Firefox Quantum? This was a great add-on.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Works,but sometimes don't recongnize correct.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Any plans to update to the new API for Firefox 57+?
Thanks.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
I installed this in the hope that, finally, I wouldn't have to navigate two context menus to change between english and german dictionaries.
This addon, however, only adds buttons. One that gives the abbreviated name of the active dictionary, the other with a drop-down men.
If I click the one that lists the dictionary name, the name that is listed changes. Yay.
The active dictionary, meanwhile, does not change. Nay.
The other, with the drop down, won't list anything other than "English/United States". Even though I have three dictionaries installed. Re-installing one of the German dictionaries and repeatedly restarting Firefox did not change anything, at all.
This addon was a frustrating waste of time.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Would be great to use it on postbox, and seems to be easy to port addons from thunderbird.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
This addon is supposed to do something rather simple, yet it doesn't do it most of the time.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Tested from the status bar: working well. But it's not a dictionary switcher, it's a local switcher.
This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Wenn es funzt ists klasse! 90% der letzten Jahre funktioniert ed aber nicht. Keine Ahnung was los ist. Es wird zwar anscheinend ständig aktualisiert, aber in meinem FF aufm Mac gehts nicht.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
For me it's an essential requirement to switch languages automatically like it's default with Chrome, but it doesn't work.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Produce lot of "unsafe CPOW usage" when E10 enabled.
This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Tried contacting author pr email as he requests instead of review, but since he doesnt seem to answer to that, then its no use to use his email.
Actual review : Hoped to use this addon for US and DA language, but DA localizations has been removed because they are out of date. So I can switch between US and US and then the addon lost it usefullness.
Tried to contact author for any solutions but no answer.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Apparently, the add-on needs to be "verified". Firefox complains that it will be disabled after next restart. No idea why?
It's a pity, since it's a must-have addon for users that use several languages :(
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Could not do without it. So when it stopped working I was ready to try and fix it.
Until I realized the bug was likely linked to my firefox syncing of deprecated variables for the add-on.
What I had to do is go to about:config and set
spellchecker.detectDictionaryAsIType;true
Now it's responsive again and works as intended.
I saw in the reviews here that we have to set extensions.dictionary-switcher.autodetect;true
but I believe this is an old variable no longer used by the add-on and seems to have no effect on the add-on at all.
At any rate this is the most underrated add-on for firefox, hands down. :D
Props to developer/maintainer, even though it could have less bugs. Thanks a million.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Finally I found a version that works with my Thunderbird (38.6.0) and it´s great. It automatically switches between the three installed languages after typing in not more than five words!
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Ne fonctionne toujours pas sur Firefox 43.0.4
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
We really need it updated to work with new firefox please!!
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Works great, but have some issues.
Sometimes it shows wrong language (different is chosen for spellchecking).
Sometimes detects wrong language without a reason and don't want to correct it even after putting a lot of text.
Manually changing language always locks the choice for that site.
Auto-detecting sometimes stops firefox responding for few seconds.
It should have icon that will change depending on chosen language.
Toolbar button is inconvenient, looks ugly (like it is pressed) and change its width with every language change.
After some time of using automatic detection starts to go insane.
I hope it will be improved soon, that I would use it completely.
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