Version logs

9.1.29

• Faster dictionary cache checks: candidates are requested in parallel while preserving their priority order.
• Safari: the extension stays temporarily disabled with a black-and-white icon until initialization completes. It resumes automatically, preserving your saved on/off preference, without a loading or retry screen.
• Safari: the lookup button now returns for a selection made during startup, without selecting the text again. Late responses can no longer hide a button restored by a newer check.
• Safari and Firefox Android: tooltips check all four positions when opening by touch and after content changes, preferring a fully visible position that leaves the rotation control accessible. Placement accounts for zoom and the visible screen area, and delayed adjustments preserve manual rotation.
• Firefox Android: fixed interruptions to tooltip visibility after actions and to the sizing of anti-clipping tooltips.
• Updated the welcome page with a compact English release summary. Longer notes scroll inside the existing card, with keyboard access and readable dark-mode colors.

9.1.20

• Safari: the Image button now follows the tooltip text color in normal and anti-clipping mode, including white on purple.
• Protected the image icon against page styles while preserving its frame cutout, loading spinner and red unavailable indicator.

9.1.19Includes updates since 9.1.16

• Firefox desktop: refined the black tooltip header with three right-aligned controls and immediate width synchronization. Improved white SVG icons while preserving their cutouts.
• Firefox desktop: improved anti-clipping tooltip headers and conversion bubbles, keeping results separate from the controls and protecting minimum height and text wrapping.
• Firefox desktop: added a short hover grace period to reach the tooltip. Clicking the rotation control no longer leaves normal and conversion tooltips permanently visible after the pointer moves away; keyboard focus remains supported.
• Safari: pronunciation uses Web Audio in normal tooltips, anti-clipping tooltips and the console to reduce interruptions to audio playing in another app. The console now activates audio during the click, before looking up a missing audio URL. A legacy audio fallback remains available.

9.1.16

• Fixed the first-click failure in anti-clipping tooltips: moving focus to a button no longer dismisses the tooltip before its action runs.
• Improved independent tooltip state, deletion and cleanup, with four clockwise positions and an accessible inline rotation control.
• Harmonized hide timers and busy-action behavior across Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Firefox Android.
• Hardened SVG colors, outline spinners and toolbar controls against page styles. Preserved compact wrapping and the tooltip tail in overlay mode.
• Restored pronunciation playback on pages that block remote media, using the extension audio retrieval and Blob path in both normal and anti-clipping tooltips.
• Stabilized page-language detection: visible content is counted once, navigation and injected tooltips are excluded, and stale results are ignored.
• Preserved preferences during updates and made lookup wait for ready page hooks. Fixed competing language-state updates between tabs.
• The browser badge turns orange when anti-clipping mode or a console prompt is needed. A prompt caused only by an anchor pushing a selection onto the next line keeps the existing badge color.
• The anti-clipping asterisk is now debug-only; debug mode is disabled in normal builds.

9.1.xOther series updates

• Refined Chrome and Safari tooltips with a black header, separate upper controls and a more spacious lower toolbar.
• Gave small conversion tooltips enough height to keep their text clear of the upper controls.
• Refined popup text readability with a hover-only background veil. Updated Chrome wallpapers to PNG while leaving other platforms' wallpaper sets unchanged.
• Reviewed interface translations and retained readable English HTML fallbacks when localization is unavailable.
• Improved AI provider ordering and the persistence of linear or circular selection, with provider help and status messages.

9.1.13

• Made image-search translation resilient to Google Translate rate limits: try LibreTranslate, then AI when authorized, then search with the source word.
• Stop unnecessary retries after HTTP 429 without adding quota warnings to the normal tooltip.
• Applied the fallback behavior across Chrome, Safari, Firefox desktop and Firefox Android.

8.3.xSeries updates

• The More... link opens Wikipedia. The dictionary icon immediately before the definition opens the original dictionary entry.
• Added and refined optional AI-assisted definitions and companion features, with Eco and Full modes and configurable providers.
• Improved AI dictionary fallback, translate-anyway requests, map candidate filtering and warnings for AI-added etymons.
• Refined provider testing, model-response handling and saved provider order. Missing quota information is not presented as a known balance.

8.3.18

• Added a targeted Merriam-Webster Collegiate fallback for compound words missing from the Learner's dictionary, where the corresponding API route is available.
• Rejected unrelated suggestions that merely share a prefix, while preserving ordinary phrasal-verb and single-word lookup behavior.

8.2.70

• Bug fixes and maintenance improvements.

8.2.65

• Added hooks for the companion extension.
• Recognized more units and expressions in the conversion tool.

8.2.31

• Added German interface translations.
• Enabled quick lookup of a foreign-language word inside an article, with an English definition in a tooltip.
• Added caching and versioning for frequently requested definitions across dictionaries.
• Allowed switching between definitions when the system cannot choose a single best result.
• Expanded recognition of unit and time-conversion expressions.

7.2.2

• Fixed language detection on some websites.
• Added psi/bar conversion, revised mile conversion and improved temperature parsing.
• Recognized selections such as 400-square-foot for conversion, alongside other minor fixes.

7.1.6

• Improved the Italian and English dictionaries and temperature conversion.

7.1.2

• Improved French dictionary lookup.

7.1.0

• Made minor improvements to English definition lookup.

7.0.7

• Improved rendering and menu scrolling.

7.0.3

• Added Buy Me a Coffee support and minor rendering fixes.

7.0.2

• Added a temperature-conversion button to console mode for selections such as 15°, where Fahrenheit or Celsius is not specified.
• Removed the Imperator button.

7.0.0

• Added biblical, archaic and more imperial measurement units across English, Spanish, French, Finnish and German locales.
• Fixed tooltip toolbar SVG rendering issues.

6.8.4

• Improved rendering and introduced the experimental tooltip Imperator control.

6.7.1

• Added the Finnish dictionary and interface locale, with tokenization and lemmatization.

6.0

• Introduced Greek and Latin lookup through Logeion, with translation into the detected local language.
• Extended dictionary translation support with load balancing between translation servers.
• Moved English lookup from Cambridge to Merriam-Webster in response to access restrictions, with a free-dictionary fallback when quotas are reached.
• Switched German lookup to DWDS and improved compound-word retrieval and cascading dictionary fallbacks.
• Improved time-zone and measurement detection, console controls, pronunciation audio and tooltip rendering on difficult pages.

5.2.9

• Bug fixes and console-mode refinements.

5.0

• Introduced a failsafe console that stores definitions when JavaScript-heavy or restrictive pages prevent normal tooltip rendering.

4.0.2

• Time and measurement conversion improvements and bug fixes.

4.0

• Introduced conversion tooltips for times and measurements, using the browser's local time-zone information.

3.0.1

• Added the tooltip opacity slider.
• Revised dictionaries and word sorting, including fixes after changes to Cambridge's pages.
• Resumed maintenance with bug fixes and compatibility improvements.

2.9

• Improved language detection, including behavior across multiple tabs, and fixed bugs.
• Added quick translation and German and Italian dictionaries.
• Disabled automatic language detection when the extension is disabled or the dictionary is changed manually.
• Improved appearance and added Leetchi donations.

2.1

• Added the ability to remove an individual tooltip.

1.8

• Introduced automatic language detection.

1.2.29Experiment Pro

• Improved image-search fallback when translation is rate-limited, across Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Firefox Android.
• Stopped repeated requests after terminal translation errors while allowing the image pipeline to continue with fallback terms.

1.0.8Experiment

• Added the same rate-limit-aware image fallback across the four browser platforms.
• Continued image lookup with the source word when translation providers are unavailable.

0.1.86Experiment

• Donor-only companion extension: adds thumbnails illustrating the definition.
• SenseMap places the selected word among synonyms, antonyms, broader and narrower terms, related categories and whole/part relationships.
• RootMap explores etymology and words from the same family.