# HiraSubs

> Adds pure hiragana YouTube captions for Japanese YouTube videos for those learning Japanese.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/hirasubs](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hirasubs)

## Overview

- **ID:** `hirasubs`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Fustigate
- **Category:** language-support
- **Daily users:** 8
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-11
- **First published:** 2024-04-10
- **Size:** 11 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hirasubs/)

## Description

This extension will automatically add a bar of pure hiragana captions on top of YouTube's Japanese captions which contain kanji. This is made to try to help beginner Japanese learners to read captions while watching Japanese videos.

## Rankings

- #36,932 — Overall
- #232 — jira

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `*://*/*`
- `identity`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`
- `*.mozilla.org`
- `www.youtube.com`
- `youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hirasubs)