Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 57417
Right-click on option on word with search web & web dictionary
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:34:28 UTC
Hello developers, In Firefox I use an extension which enables me to "Dictionary search" and Firefox itself has a built in option to "Web search". These are available as right-click menu options when highlighting word/s and then right-clicking. I use these extensively and when in writer I regularly find myself selecting words and then copying these words to Firefox to search either the web or the web dictionary (user definable preference). Instead of me selection words and heading over to Firefox, it would be great if I could do it there and then from writer. So I'm envisaging that writer provide a facility whereby I could add “self configurable right-click menu options†whereby I could state the program to be invoked as well as the arguments to be passed. Should this be available I could add my browser of preference being Firefox and the arguments, being the URL I'd want the stated program (browser) to navigate to, then if writer could populate the argument variable with the words I selected when right-clicking, then viola I'm searching the web or the web dictionary or web Thesaurus from within writer. Please would you give this request serious consideration? Kind regards Emmanuel
Created attachment 31215 [details] Right-click pop-up menu Firefox example
Reassigned to requirements
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