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sturdy-cloud
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Status: New idea

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/look-up-words-mchl3983326c/mac

This is a feature I have dearly missed since migrating from Chrome. Currently it is only accessible through ctrl + cmd +d or using three-finger click.

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Jon
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Jon
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ohmega-01
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Need this so bad. Love Firefox on macOS, but it really needs the native look up feature. Chrome has it, Firefox should too.

pinkshark
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I'm finally leaving Chrome and migrating my workflow to Firefox (which I used years ago). But it feels like Firefox is missing some basic modern functions, I'm having to install lots of extensions to fill the gaps. But this is a big one, not having native Lookup in the right click/context menu. It's clunky and ruins workflow when the only right-click option is to open a generic google search in a completely different tab... considering a dictionary and thesaurus are already designed to pop up in one small unobtrusive space. It is there, I can access it with a 3-finger tap on a trackpad and don't understand why it's not in the FF context menu. I often work on an external monitor/keyboard setup and don't usually have a trackpad available. Please turn this basic utility on. Reading through forums people have been requesting this for years.

PrankishHarmon
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Just an fyi, that it might be either accessible via the 3-finger-tab - as already mentioned - or the so called force click: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102309

S3V3RIN
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Please fix this. The bug has been listed on Bugzilla for an entire decade now. It's an accessibility issue for non-native & non-English speakers too. 

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1116391

BOBU
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@Juhis  @jwaterman @Jon  This simple feature kept me from switching from chrome and safari to Firefox. For those who aren't native speakers this is badly needed. MacOS Native look up feature can show us the whole meaning of the word we selected just like a dictionary. I'm highly depend on this when using Chrome. It's a feature already exists and I can use it on Firefox by press the word heavily on touch pad. It's annoying this feature is missing on right click menu. I notices there's translate option but it's not as good as the native one(way worse). There are many people upvote this post and I saw some similar posts, please help us. 查询 means look up, this feature should be the first feature when using right click.

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