I received a message that Rikai Chan plugin was installed successfully. But I cannot find it listed anywhere in the Firefox menu bars. Also when I clicked some Japanese writing on a webpage no rikai chan action came.

Isn't it supposed to be listed in the Extensions list in my browser or at least found listed in the Manage User Scripts list?

Also when I was installing the plugin the website had a two step process of installing the main plugin and the second step, a dictionary. But I couldn't install at the second step because both files at steps 1 and 2 have the same file name. I had clicked the English-Japanese dictionary. Did the first step installation already includ the Eng.-J dictionary?

I tried to install the dicitonary at step 2 but I got a message that the plugin was already installed successfully. I closed the browser and rebooted to check the results but no rikai chan functionallity was found.

The way I read it, it said that you can only have one dictionary at a time. Sounded too bad, but the J-E dictionary is what I want most. But, that cannot be right, either, since I got the names-dictionary too. One language at a time?

I do see rikai-chan under Tools/Extensions, so I don't know what's up with that. Maybe you only have the dictionary installed, by accident, you don't actually have rikaichan?

Once I got rikai-chan installed, it added a line to Tools/ that says "Toggle rikai-chan" (also to the right-click menu). And also another line that says "Look up with Rikaichan" to the Tool/ menu.

Mine doesn't load automatically...I have to toggle it on for every session.

CharleyGarrett, thank you for the reply. It looks like I will need to re-install. You are right about the dictionary; at step 2 it says to choose only one.

By the way, is the rikai chan plugin more operational than going through the Rikai.com website?

For example, that website will not work at a website that I have to login in at. Would the rikai chan continue with me through the gates of the login pages and translate those inner-most pages? (or should I say "penetrate," ha, ha)

I am heavily into the religiosity of Shinto fertility shrines. I no longer can view the world through the virgin lens of English-speaking culture; but through the nuanced lens of Japanese earthiness about the natural world. ha, ha. I hope my sudden turn to humor finds smiling eyes.

Rikaichan extension goes anywhere there is a webpage that you can open in Firefox.

Yeah, but even those where you first must login thereupon being sent to other pages? Rikai.com handles the login page but not successive pages in my experience. Ditto this for another similar service POPJISYO
http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx

The only place I've noticed rikaichan failing to work is when the kanji is inside an image, such as a gif. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but as a computer programmer I can guess that it has to do with the character code of the character under the cursor, and those to the right of that one. As such, it is a client thing, and not a server thing. So, it really should not matter how you got to the page, just that it has text that you can cursor over.

I'm not really going all over, just yet, in trying to read stuff. Basically, just here (mostly) and Tae Kim's grammar page. The reading tutor home page (do you know it? With a cute little mouse with round glasses?)

"Tae Kim's grammar page. The reading tutor home page (do you know it? With a cute little mouse with round glasses?)"

Please tell me more--what's address for the tutor page.

Here's the link to the reading tutor page: http://language.tiu.ac.jp/index_e.html
{there was an extraneous period at the end of the url}

This is the link to Tae Kim's grammar page: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/start.html

Oh, and by the way, I noticed that rikaichan didn't work while viewing a .pdf file, though I was using the adobe plugin with the browser to do it.

Please confirm the address for the Reading Tutor because I could not access the server.

Many thanks!

Reporting back--I found the Reading Tutor at this address:
http://language.tiu.ac.jp/tools_e.html

The Reading Tutor is dynamite!

I found it when I was trying to find King Kanji flashcards and ran across this site with some useful websites:

http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:NDbX...=clnk&cd=1

I have yet to find info on King Kanji. Anyone know about it?

Thank you again, CharleyGarrett.

There was an extraneous period at the end of that url (fixed now). That is the home page address. They one you show above is one of the sub-entities. I'm glad you found your way!

An update. Rikaichan works and very well. It does much better than Rikai.com because rikaichan can follow me through various login pages at the same site. Previously, Rikai.com would only go as far as the first login page; none thereafter at the same site.

KANJI Wrote:I have yet to find info on King Kanji. Anyone know about it?

I've used it a bit, it's commercial though so I just tried it out. Before I found out about this site and KanjiGym I tried it because it's got a flash-card set for RTK already made, although in reality they have just programmed the RTk order, you still get all the meanings, readings, etc - so as you can imagine sometimes the Heisig keyword isn't even there or you don't know which one of the keywords it is, etc. However, it does look okay for Kanji study in general, I just don't think it's very suited to RTK. I study Japanese at university so I have to balance between RTK and the standard method - for the latter I use JFC and I love that program so much that I'd invest in a Windows CE handheld even though I already have a good Palm Pilot just to use it while I'm out (It runs on windows / linux aswell), the power of the Kanjicards is amazing, I couldn't hope for anything better, you can fully control what the cards will do (EG, for Vocabulary I personally find it better going English to Japanese to force recall, so all vocabulary cards get a flag that makes JFC always ask me in English for the Japanese) so if you want some general non-rtk flashcard software that you can use for everything (kanji, vocab, grammar, anything..) I'd have a look at that. Whoops, I didn't mean to ramble on ;)

krusher, thanks for the tip!