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I first found this plugin when it was called “perapera kun” and it required you to find a japanese dictionary plugin for it to work. Now I think they’ve updated the plugin to the point where anyone can immediately get started without needing any extra downloads and I recommend checking it out if you’re interested.
What does it do specifically? Well I’m still finding all of that out myself. One of the things it does is to simply allow you to highlight words in Japanese and it gives you the reading, meaning and a bunch of other information. In a few cases it even gave me several sources to look up the word including the Kanji Learner’s dictionary and the SKIP number.
I think they’ve got a version out for Chrome as well now in case you’re not using Firefox. The website is http://www.perapera.org/
I would instead recommend using Rikaisama for Firefox: http://subs2srs.sourceforge.net/rikaisama/
It’s very similar but has more options, most significantly (IMO) EPWING dictionary support.
I’m not sure what EPWING is or how it’s useful to me. I’ve only recently started finding Perapera useful so maybe I’m just not using it to the fullest potential.
I like Rikaisama for having pronunciations, I don’t know if Perapera does that.
EPWING is a dictionary file format that all the major J-J and E-J/J-E dictionaries are available in. Rikaisama can use EPWING dictionaries that you have.
Perapera is limited to the free EDICT dictionary, which just isn’t as good as the professional J-E dictionaries (though it has its uses) and of course doesn’t have any monolingual J-J dictionary.
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