westmeadboy Posted July 30, 2009 at 12:43 AM Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 at 12:43 AM 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooironic Posted July 30, 2009 at 09:33 AM Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 at 09:33 AM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoney Posted July 30, 2009 at 02:46 PM Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 at 02:46 PM 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westmeadboy Posted July 30, 2009 at 03:29 PM Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 at 03:29 PM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted July 30, 2009 at 04:21 PM Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 at 04:21 PM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westmeadboy Posted July 30, 2009 at 11:45 PM Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 at 11:45 PM 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted August 4, 2009 at 06:28 AM Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 at 06:28 AM 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsl01 Posted August 5, 2009 at 12:11 PM Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 at 12:11 PM 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsl01 Posted August 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodigal Son Posted November 4, 2009 at 08:45 AM Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 at 08:45 AM I'm looking for a Chinese Pera-Kun style chinese-english translation plugin, is something like this available for Chrome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted November 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM Merging . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurks Posted December 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vr2nr Posted January 14, 2010 at 08:43 PM Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 at 08:43 PM I would also be intereted in this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xuesheng2010 Posted April 16, 2010 at 08:51 PM Report Share Posted April 16, 2010 at 08:51 PM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westmeadboy Posted April 17, 2010 at 07:55 AM Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 at 07:55 AM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vr2nr Posted April 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tian Li Posted April 21, 2010 at 10:32 AM Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 at 10:32 AM 非常好！I've been looking such an extension for some time now. This is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xuesheng2010 Posted May 2, 2010 at 04:50 PM Report Share Posted May 2, 2010 at 04:50 PM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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