kanaphone-we

Name: kanaphone-we
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: chris

By: chris

Learn japanese hiragana and katakana! Auto update word-spellings to include kana.

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Learn kana! Use kanaphone to develop an intuitive feel for hiragana and katakana, while reading English text. Kanaphone updates word-spellings to include hiragana and/or katakana.

Note: restart browser after installation. Does not work on pages from addons.mozilla.org

Move the slider below the katakana and hiragana buttons to increase or decrease the number of kana shown. Click the text below the slider to permanently enable or disable kanaphone for the current webpage, for example, permanently disable kanaphone when checking email... サイト: 有効 is 'sai-tou yuu-kou' or 'site enabled'. Middle-mouse-click the extension icon to shortcut enable or disable the current page.

Kanaphone is available for firefox and chrome and needs the following permissions,

Kanaphone shares data across tabs to auto-update tabs when settings are changed,
Kanaphone reads and modifies web page text seen by the user and reads urls when users disable web pages.
Kanaphone stores some data in the browser: user settings and a list of user-disabled urls

Add-on

By:

chris

Daily users:

Rating:

4.50

(2)

Version:

3.0.0 Last updated: 2023-10-02

Version code:

5629319

Creation date:

2018-01-14

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
storage
activeTab

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

59.02KB

Email:

ch*****@bumblehead.com

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-18

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Ranking

# 64,541 ▲ 4

Other rankings

#185 in phone keyword 16 ▼ 5

Extension safety

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kanaphone-we requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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kanaphone-we has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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