Edicting Opera
- From: if <if@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 26 Nov 2005 17:34:31 GMT
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before but you can build an Edict
search into the Opera browser by adding the following entries to the
search.ini file in your profile directory (this assumes it has 32 existing
searching gizmos, which is what mine shipped with):
[Search Engine 33]
Name=&Edict
URL=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1MUJ%s
Query=
Key=edict
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0
[Search Engine 34]
Name=E&namdict
URL=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?3MUE%s
Query=
Key=enamdict
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0
(Note that the search URLs above assume J->E for edict, and E->J for
Enamdict, just change the E or J at the end the URL if you don't like that
default.)
You can now do look-ups in three ways:
1) from the address bar by typing (e.g.)
edict usagi
enamdict jim
2) select some word on a webpage, you can right click and choose "search
with edict" etc from a context submenu to have the word looked up. This
works with both romaji and Japanese.
3) In the drop down list in the toolbar's search box, Edict and Enamdict
now appear, complete with the blue Monash icon.
Some tweaking of files seems to be needed if you want the Edict searches to
appear above all the junky stuff (ebay searches etc) in the dropdown list
and submenus (I haven't figured this out entirely yet). I tried simply
deleting some of the many useless (IMHO) search engines that Opera offers
but it causes all the searches (even find in page) to stop working so I had
to put them back. (I guess Opera probably build-in 30 search engines
because they're making their money from the click-throughs now that the
browser is free.)
Re Opera generally, the only Japanesey glitch I've had is that bookmarks
with Japanese titles display as blobs in the bookmark menu even though they
show correctly if examined via the bookmarks side-panel. Probably I need to
change the font being used for menus, I didn't have this glitch with
Firefox though. Opera is a nice browser but has one or two rough edges from
the usability point of view, but it's now my default browser as most stuff
that has to be done by building up a rather wobbly heap of extensions in
Firefox comes as standard with Opera.
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