Look up Swahili words directly from your Firefox web browser!

By following these simple steps, you can look up any word in the Swahili-English or English-Swahili dictionaries of the Kamusi Project, simply by clicking your mouse.

Note: We would be delighted to release this as a stand-alone Swahili Dictionary extension, pre-configured for Kamusi searches. If you have the skills and interest to code this Mozilla extension as a volunteer, please contact us!

Step 1: Make sure you have installed a current version of Firefox.

Step 2: Open up Firefox and download the DictionarySearch extension - go here and click on "Install Now".

Step 3: Close Firefox, and then start it again.

Step 4: Select Tools from the option bar, then choose Extensions from the Tools menu that opens up.

Step 5: A box will open up that lists all of your extensions. Find the line for DictionarySearch, click on it once, and click "Options" on the bottom of the box.

Step 6: A box will open up. Copy and paste the following text into the appropriate lines:

Dictionary 2
Text: English-Swahili search for "$"
URL: http://perl.kamusiproject.org/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?Word=$&EngP=1

Dictionary 3
Text: Swahili-English search for "$"
URL: http://perl.kamusiproject.org/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?Word=$&EngP=0

That's it! Now, use your mouse to highlight any word on any web page, in English or Swahili. Right-click your mouse button, select whether you want to look up your word from English to Swahili or from Swahili to English, and you will be directed immediately to a search of the Kamusi Project dictionaries for your term.