Due to popular demand, we have restored the names dictionary for the latest Japanese Firefox update. Sorry for the long wait. The add-on is currently awaiting approval by Mozilla so it should be released soon. Edit: The update has now been approved. Enjoy!
Cheers
The Perapera Team
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Sorry it’s taken this long, but the updated Perapera popup dictionary plugin for Japanese is now finished and has been approved by Mozilla.
Bugs fixed, broken features in latest Firefox unbroken, and the same popup themes the Chinese Plugin users have enjoyed have now been added along with the ability to customize the colors. Enjoy!
Look forward to everyone’s feedback. More good things to come soon!
You asked for it and now it’s here. After being out for most of the past 6 weeks, finally had some time to sit down and finish the Perapera Chinese 9.0 update. The main update, as expected, is the ability to customize the tone colors. The default ones I put in there were what showed up on my Pleco app, but I know people wanted to use other colors as well, so here it is:
Also in this update:
The updated version of the Perapera Chinese pop-up dictionary and study tool is finally out and available for Firefox! Download it here.
Basic Features
With Perapera Chinese, you use your mouse over any Chinese words on a webpage and it gives you the pronunciation and definition. English, German, & French dictionaries; Pinyin and Zhuyin supported; Simplified or Traditional characters. You can also save and export words for studying later!
Dictionaries
The plugin comes with Chinese-English already installed, but you can install additional dictionaries with the following links:
How to use
Will be uploading a video later explaining how to use the plugin.
We plan to expand this site significantly in the coming weeks and months. Like our Facebook page, or follow us on Twitter to keep up with the latest updates!
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It has been a struggle with Firefox over the past year with them releasing a new update every week that breaks this plugin. What was once great browser, I personally find now to be extremely annoying, and this latest penis envy pissing contest that Mozilla has where they have to release a new version every week because Chrome has passed them in a meaningless version number is absolutely absurd. Nobody cares what version you are. That thinking is so old, and you should just stop it because you will feel really dumb when you are blasting adds everywhere for Firefox 27 and nobody cares.
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OK rant is over. I wanted to say I just submitted the new version of Perapera Chinese (version 8.0) to Mozilla for approval, so everyone should be getting that update automatically very soon. For Japanese the update will come shortly after. Many bugs and broken things are now fixed, and of course some great new features as well. We have been working hard here over the last month to get this out the door, and are pleased to announce this next step in our vision for this plugin. We are also pleased to announce that the team is now more than just 1 person and we have a renewed commitment to this project going forward. We will be releasing updates to all the dictionary files every month with all the new entries and definitions.
Here are a summary of the new features and some teaser screenshots:
The plugin comes with Chinese-English already installed, but you can install additional dictionaries with the following links:
We will have a YouTube video up in a few days showcasing the features and showing how to use.
***Update: Japanese dictionaries dont work now because the people who maintain those decided to change the dictionary format to a completely new format which requires rewritting the whole thing just to make it use this format, so for now only Chinese is functioning.
Just a reminder, but here are the links to the dictionary files needed for Firefox 4.0.
If you are having problems, try removing the add-on and reinstalling it from the Mozilla add-ons page:
Hey guys, sorry for such a delay in getting at least a beta out for version 4.0. Live in Japan and everyone I know was ok thru the earthquake, but I did lose my computer. It did a backflip off the desk and was shattered on the floor when I got home.
Shortly after the earthquake I had a long planned business trip to China which I extended to wait out the Fukushima concerns a bit, and just got back last week.
This FF4.0 compatible release is really nothing fancy and I just know the essentials work, so cant guarantee it will work so great but at least its something to use until there I get the time to make it work proper (sometime after I get a new computer).
In other news I will be open sourcing this and making a Github project for it, so if anyone would like to work together to improve this or add other languages etc, let me know.
In FF4.0, here’s where you would find the Perapera-kun icon:
Step1: Right click on the toolbar and click “customize”
Step 2: Drag the Perapera-kun icon over to the toolbar.
Hello all,
I got a whole bunch of emails asking for traditional character support, which I fully intended to release soon but didnt have time to code when I was rushing to get something out for the FF3 release. I had some time in a trip ride back from a business trip so I coded it up for you all. I guess alot more people use traditional characters than I thought. So traditional characters are back up and working now.
Also for you really ambitious people who want to learn/display both character sets, in the options dialog under the general tab, you can tick “Show Traditional + Simplified Characters for each entry.” and it will display both versions no matter which characters the word you are looking up is in. I also cleaned up the prefs dialog a bit. You can find the update in the blue box here to the left. Enjoy!
UPDATE: Some people are having problems finding the blue download box (no flash installed??) so here are the links to the files:
Chinese: http://www.box.net/shared/knhft15s0s
Japanese: http://www.box.net/shared/7c65obqgog
Download them to some location then drag and drop them to FF3 to install
Thank you to all you have generously donated to this project!! I have been working every weekend on developing the next version which has involved an education in how the whole Firefox plugin framework works so I can get some of the more inherent bugs fixed while I rewrite this from scratch for Firefox 3. But all is going well. Thanks again for the donations, I got an ACIDMAN dvd I’ve been wanting for awhile (^^)/
Not enough to push out an update, but for those you really want to use this with the Firefox 3 Betas, you can download compatible versions in my “Box” on the left here. Uninstall the old versions first. Enjoy!
PS: Thank you to those who have already donated! I’ll be working hard this weekend on getting a new version of this out soon!