1116391 - Add "Look Up in Dictionary" context menu entry [Mac OS X]

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Nathan Yee [:nyee]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141126041045

Steps to reproduce:

Opened the context menu (via right/control/secondary clicking).


Actual results:

No entry for "Look Up in Dictionary" exists to check a word using the OS X Dictionary popover.


Expected results:

A "Look Up in Dictionary" context entry should be implemented in order to give users more indication that the OS X Dictionary popover exists as a feature in Firefox for OS X.

Comment 1

[Nathan Yee [:nyee]]

Although the implementation of OS X Dictionary popovers is only partially complete (see meta Bug 301451) this bug should be considered as the current state of Dictionary popovers support is good enough to be useful. However, this bug may depend on Bug 569331 (which meta Bug 301451 also depends on).

Comment 2

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

I can confirm that we don't currently have such a context menu entry.

Comment 3

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

potential platform ux want to have?

Comment 4

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Mass bug change to replace various 'parity' whiteboard flags with the new canonical keywords. (See bug 1443764 comment 13.)

Comment 5

[Timo Tijhof]

Attachment: firefox-75-without.png

Comment 6

[Timo Tijhof]

Attachment: safari-menu-lookup.png

Comment 7

[Timo Tijhof]

Attachment: safari-menu.png

Comment 8

[Timo Tijhof]

As a curious person for whom English is their second language, I find this impacting how likely I am to look up a word I don't know.

I use a different browser as my primary browser each year, this year it's Firefox. I'm quite likely considering making that permanent, but having moved from Safari and Chrome, I find absence of this quite bothering my curious mind :)

Comment 9

[benoit.favreault]

This the same for me. This bug is what's periodically prevents me to use Firefox as my default browser.
It is worth mentioning that it's not only a "Look Up in Dictionary" problem but a fail to respect all macOS UX conventions for secondary menus.

Comment 10

[Bastian Blankenburg]

This is one of two main reasons why I'm considering switching back to Safari as my default browser (the other being that Safari has all controls in the window title bar, thus providing more vertical space for web content).

Comment 11

[Morgan]

Following the implementation of macOS native context menus as per Bug 34572 I think now would be a great time to resolve this request.

"Look Up" is a system-wide macOS feature and the expected top item in a context menu when right clicking almost any text selection within the OS.

(Apologies for this essentially being a 'me-too' comment, in my defence I think now is the best time to tackle this with native context menus being implemented)

Comment 12

[phanvu0000]

For non-native people like me, this feature is very important. Please solve this bug

Comment 13

[Elhem Enohpi]

Attachment: Look Up in Firefox.jpg

Firefox does support the "Look Up" feature via three-finger tap on a trackpad, if enabled in System Preferences. If using a mouse, another workaround is using the commercial app BetterTouchTool to assign e.g. option-right-click, or a keyboard shortcut, e.g. control-command-L, to the "Lookup Word Under Cursor" action. I don't know if there's a free solution for that. It doesn't seem to be possible using the Mac's native keyboard shortcut system. Having it in the context menu as expected would be best, and I imagine it wouldn't be terribly difficult given that the function itself actually works already. Unfortunately I don't have the skills to contribute a patch.

Comment 14

[phanvu0000]

(In reply to Elhem Enohpi from comment #13)

Created attachment 9230353 [details]
Look Up in Firefox.jpg

Firefox does support the "Look Up" feature via three-finger tap on a trackpad, if enabled in System Preferences. If using a mouse, another workaround is using the commercial app BetterTouchTool to assign e.g. option-right-click, or a keyboard shortcut, e.g. control-command-L, to the "Lookup Word Under Cursor" action. I don't know if there's a free solution for that. It doesn't seem to be possible using the Mac's native keyboard shortcut system. Having it in the context menu as expected would be best, and I imagine it wouldn't be terribly difficult given that the function itself actually works already. Unfortunately I don't have the skills to contribute a patch.

I'm using a desktop, so can not do it. My current solution is maintaining a Google Translate tab and switch to copy and paste. It's a crazy waste of time, just hope that Firefox can fix it soon

Comment 15

[montlackc]

Attachment: STILL no contextual lookup available

Comment 16

[Philip]

Would it help this bug get some traction if it was filed under Accessibility instead of just Enhancement? It's a usability feature and I would think a little higher priority than just a "nice-to-have" enhancement.

Either case, this is primarily a "me too" comment - would love to see this fixed! 🙏🏼

Comment 18

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

If someone knows what needs to happen on the frontend side this is what it should hook up to on the platform side https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735956#c1

Comment 20

[u752148]

Users interested in this feature can vote for it on Mozilla Connect: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/support-macos-native-look-up-feature-in-context-menu/idi-p/25434.

Comment 21

[08xjcec48]

Please change this bug from Enhancement to Defect. macOS users expect to see this menu by default and create forum threads asking why Firefox is broken.

Comment 22

[S3V3RIN]

Can someone please change the Priority to S3?

As one of the many people who switched from Chrome to Firefox on Mac, this issue is constantly pervasive and irritating. MacOS users expect the functionality, and the tedious workaround renders it dysfunctional for many jobs, especially with research labs like mine.

If anyone comments below, please vote for this bug up top