Furigana injector plugin for Firefox

[untmdsprt]

I've found this the other day, and find it to be quite useful to learn kanji on webpages.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6178

It's a plugin for Firefox that will add hiragana over the kanji. You can turn it off and on at your leisure, and also set it to where it only displays the furigana on the first occurrence of kanji.

This works great with my Mac, and it does support Windows, and Linux. I've found though you need to increase the font size to read some words.

[billyshears]

http://rikaichan.mozdev.org/

[Neil53]

This blew up my firefox! Install at own risk!

I've found this the other day, and find it to be quite useful to learn kanji on webpages.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6178

It's a plugin for Firefox that will add hiragana over the kanji. You can turn it off and on at your leisure, and also set it to where it only displays the furigana on the first occurrence of kanji.

This works great with my Mac, and it does support Windows, and Linux. I've found though you need to increase the font size to read some words.

[Belton]

This blew up my firefox! Install at own risk!

Works ok for me Firefox3 Mac.
It does need another add-on to work however to give ruby support so what Furigana injector does gets displayed properly. Read the developers notes. I prefer the simplicity HTML Ruby
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6812

@billyshears
Rikaichan is great but the idea of using furigana is to take English out of the loop and see the furigana for kanji you don't yet know, keeping a flow to your reading. I prefer to start from Furigana Injector, where I might often know the word but not the kanji, and use Rikaichan to check unknown meanings as the need arises.

Furigana Injector also has a preference where you can omit the kanji you already know.

[Jessi]

This is a pretty neat plugin! The furigana show up in parentheses next to the characters instead of over the characters like in the screenshot, though. I think it'd be easier to read if they were over the kanji. But still a very nice resource

[Belton]

This is a pretty neat plugin! The furigana show up in parentheses next to the characters instead of over the characters like in the screenshot, though. I think it'd be easier to read if they were over the kanji. But still a very nice resource :)

That's because Firefox doesn't support the <ruby> tag.
If you install HTML Ruby
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6812
or XHTML Ruby Support
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1935

you'll get nice normal furigana.
On my system at least XHTML Ruby Support sometimes messed up the baselines so I use the simpler HTML Ruby.

[untmdsprt]

@Belton - I'll have to agree the Simple HTML one renders everything better.

@Jessi - have you tried installing the Ruby plugin to go along with the Injector?

[skmt999]

Wow! This is great! I've been using the Rikaichan, but I didn't like how I had to turn it off right after hovering over the one thing I didn't understand if I didn't want annoying dictionary pop-ups showing every time I moused around without meaning to look at something in specific.

This lets me just 'read' it, and if I still don't understand I can turn Rikaichan on for a second anyway!

I did a quick test on Amazon.jp - and I noticed that for some things I had to up the text size for or 'zoom in' on to read at all. But that's probably just the page's default font I'm having trouble reading in furigana size. It's not really a problem for me.