It’s hard not to love Firefox!  As a web browser, it just keeps getting better; and I’ve written here frequently about Firefox’s value in terms of helping make the web accessible for users with a wide variety of  access challenges.  Today  I’m writing a quick “holiday” post about another Firefox add-on that you may find worth a look.

Wikilook is a Firefox add-on that provides instant definitions of words that are on screen in Firefox.  With Wikilook, you simply hold the space-bar down and hover your cursor over any word to get its meaning.  Wikilook brings the definition from Wiktionary.  Definitions provide hyperlinks to relevant Wikipedia articles.  The screenshot below shows the definition brought up for ‘environment’ by Wikilook.

Wikilook is an alternative to the Firefox add-on from Answers.com that I wrote about here. I think I prefer what Answers.com has to offer, but you may not share my preference.