Popup Chinese Dictionary for Google Chrome?

[westmeadboy]

I've recently decided to switch from Firefox to Chrome and am trying to tackle substitutes for the various Firefox plugins I used to use.

I've sorted out Delicious and Evernote, but what about Chinese Pera-kun or Mandarin Popup?

How do other Google Chrome users do chinese-english lookup/translation on the fly?

[tooironic]

Someone may correct me, but I don't *think* there is a specific Google Chrome Chinese annotation tool as of yet...

I'm actually curious as to why you would make such a switch.

I suppose if you're desperate you could use an online one like Chinese Tools though.

[stoney]

I gave Chrome a try but also couldn't find anything for popup translation, so back to Firefox.

I am now using the latest (3.5?) firefox and it seems to be working great. Just check this thread before installing perakun

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/21850-chinese-perapera-kun-in-firefox-35-here-is-how&highlight=firefox

[westmeadboy]

Yeah, I've got Firefox 3.5 installed too but only use it when I need to use one of the plugins.

On my Vista system, Firefox runs about half the speed of Chrome. It also often temporarily freezes and crashes. Oh and it takes much longer to start.

[gato]

On my Vista system, Firefox runs about half the speed of Chrome. It also often temporarily freezes and crashes. Oh and it takes much longer to start.

See if a completely fresh install of Firefox would help. It worked for me. Uninstall all versions of Firefox on your system first, and then install Firefox 3.5 into a new directory.

[westmeadboy]

Well, I did a fresh Vista install and then installed 3.0. Was slow even without addons but then after a bunch of addons (maybe 10) was slow as hell.

I found Google Reader to be the most affected for some reason.

Can't remember if I did 3.5 fresh - maybe give it a go...

[trevelyan]

We haven't put out a popup dictionary for Chrome yet, but would be happy to provide the data or existing code if someone wanted to.

--david

[jonsl01]

We haven't put out a popup dictionary for Chrome yet, but would be happy to provide the data or existing code if someone wanted to.

I would be happy to give it a try in my spare time. I assume all the code and data is on the adso website already?

[jonsl01]

I've done a bit of Googling, it seems Google Chrome doesn't quite have the systems in place to support extensions at the moment.

http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions

[Prodigal Son]

I'm looking for a Chinese Pera-Kun style chinese-english translation plugin, is something like this available for Chrome?

[roddy]

Merging . . .

[Lurks]

The beta now has an extensions API and a rapidly growing list of extensions already. What I really want is Mandarin Popup for Chrome... I've emailed the author.

There's a few generic pop up translators already but they're obviously not what we're after.

[vr2nr]

I would also be intereted in this.

[xuesheng2010]

There's a Chinese popup dictionary for Google Chrome now. It's called "Zhongwen".

It can deal with both simplified and traditional characters. Along with the English translation it also shows pinyin with different colors for the tones (red = 1st tone, orange = 2nd tone, green = 3rd tone, blue = 4th tone). That makes it easier to memorize the tones.

You can download it from https://chrome.google.com/extensions

Just search for "zhongwen" and install it. Instructions on how to use it can be found on the installation page. It's really simple.

Note that this extension only works in the Google Chrome browser.

[westmeadboy]

Excellent - exactly what I've been looking for, thanks.

One problem though... go to http://www.google.com.hk and then hover over the 中 of 中文网页 just below the google button - and the popup doesn't show... I've seen this problem with hovering over the first character in several cases.

[vr2nr]

Yes, and an easy way to save a wordlist, maybe to a predetermined google doc or spreadsheet. But even a text file would be helpful.

[Tian Li]

非常好！I've been looking such an extension for some time now. This is great.

[xuesheng2010]

The latest version supports copying dictionary entries to the clipboard so they can be pasted from there into Excel or other programs. Use "C" on the keyboard for copying to the clipboard. It copies the simplified and traditional characters, Pinyin and the English translation.

For those of you using Skritter, you can use the "S" keyboard shortcut to add the currently translated word to your Skritter vocabulary queue.