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Firefox - your new J-helper!

Postby Caustic Saint » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:55 am

If you're running Firefox and don't like taking time away from your browsing to look up Japanese words in a real dictionary (paper or electronic), check out rikaichan.

Rikaichan is a Firefox extension that adds some serious dictionary functionality. Don't know what a Japanese word means? Just hover your pointer over the word and a detailed dictionary listing pops up. It's even got a toolbar (you can toggle it on and off) for manual J->E lookups.

Quite possibly the most useful Firefox extension ever. :)

(Credit for finding this goes to Steve.)
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Postby American Oyaji » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:02 am

I will try to use this at my new job.

I'll need it.
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Postby FG Lurker » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:29 am

This is AWESOME! Man, what a kick-ass extension. Thanks CS!
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Postby Ketou » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:20 pm

This is great!!
No more copy pasting into notebook for a reconversion!

Thanks for the heads up CS.
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Postby GomiGirl » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:44 pm

Been using this for a little while on my mac and it is really good.
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Postby FG Lurker » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:49 pm

GomiGirl wrote:Been using this for a little while on my mac and it is really good.

Was very kind of you to share it. ;)
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Postby GomiGirl » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:06 pm

Actually I have been using this one.. Moji Seemed very similar though.
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Postby omae mona » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:40 pm

GomiGirl wrote:Actually I have been using this one.. Moji Seemed very similar though.

Wow. Just grabbed this 5 minutes ago and it's nice. I used to use moji ages ago (I think as a Mozilla plug-in), but rikaichan seems quite a bit smoother. If memory serves, when I was using moji, the UI was bothering me enough that I just took to using the home page at rikai.com when I really wanted popup translations.

The nice thing about rikaichan compared to rikai.com is that the site owner of rikai.com doesn't get info about all the perverted pages I'm reading.
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Postby GuyJean » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:44 pm

Caustic Saint wrote:Quite possibly the most useful Firefox extension ever. :)
(Credit for finding this goes to Steve.)
That is seriously sweet! Thanks!

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Postby Caustic Saint » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:16 pm

GuyJean wrote:That is seriously sweet! Thanks!

I'm glad everybody's finding it useful. Like I said in the first post, though, the real credit goes to Steve, as I found it on his site.
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Postby emperor » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:58 pm

omae mona & gomigirl wrote:I used to use moji ages ago (I think as a Mozilla plug-in), but rikaichan seems quite a bit smoother.


Moji only works from Firefox 1-1.5 (dosent work well/at all after 1.5 - current version = 1.502?)

I usually just use a combo of jim breen and rikai, but ill be sure to install this now :)
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Postby omae mona » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:03 pm

emperor wrote:Moji only works from Firefox 1-1.5 (dosent work well/at all after 1.5 - current version = 1.502?)

Nobody's written a plug-in which makes my memory work properly, unfortunately :-)
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Postby Yorik » Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:55 am

IMHO the Hammer Time extension is the best.. :)

I have been using other translators in Firefox for a while, I will give this one a wirl..
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Postby spyder » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:59 am

EDIT: The server is now back up.

Is anyone else having problems with this link working now?
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