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Not having the "Look up ..." available from the context menu is my biggest pet-peeve with Firefox on MacOS.

I know you can force-click on laptops, but, not everyone is on a laptop all the time, and force-clicking doesn't allow you to choose the selection, which can be quite problematic for languages that doesn't use spaces.

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You could file a bug for that! The macOS team at Mozilla is trying to make changes to be a better mac citizen (see native-context menus) :)

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

Looking forward to 2042!

Using Firefox now, making a selection and then force-clicking it opens it in Look Up

You are right. That must be pretty new. Thank you for letting me know - this is really useful for me!

This was available in my late 2017 macbook pro with force touch. I know because I don't like this feature and was searching for a way to disable it.

Didn’t work on Japanese text for me just a few months ago. 2018 MacBook Pro.

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