I used to be able to highlight a word and then tap with three fingers on the trackpad and a dictionary definition would pop up. Sometime in the last month I haven't been able to do that. Firefox has upgraded maybe once or twice and I upgraded to Mac OSX El Captain.
And yes, I did enable it in Preferences:
And it does work in other programs since I enabled it.
Best Answer
You can't right now. Unfortunately, this appears to be a bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212527