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by zeroimpl 2233 days ago
It also prevents the dictionary lookup gesture of macOS from working in Firefox, since it selects the whole sentence and looks that up (which fails).
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Wowfunhappy 2233 days ago
Side note, this already doesn't work if you don't have a Touchpad / Magic mouse. The normal workflow is Right Click ==> Look Up, but Firefox overrides macOS's normal right click menu. :(

Firfox is just not a very good macOS citizen, sadly.

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spacehunt 2233 days ago
You can still select the text and choose Look Up from the Services menu.
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Wowfunhappy 2233 days ago
Oh, there is that, but it's too far away to be useful.

If I could set up a custom keyboard shortcut for the service, it would work great—but support for custom keyboard shortcuts also doesn't work in macOS Firefox[1]! (Unless you set a combination which Firefox doesn't already use for something, and it already uses everything sensible, so you have to set something long and annoying.)

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1333781

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