# Cantonese Input

> Facility for Chinese characters input using Cantonese phonetic of Sidney Lau romanisation (劉錫祥粵語拼音法)

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `word`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Firefox user 15314155
- **Category:** language-support
- **Daily users:** 7
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-12-07
- **First published:** 2025-12-04
- **Size:** 82 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/word/)

## Description

Featuring lightweight/simple interface; functions both offline/online mode; ideal for devices like smart TV to input without physical keyboard/handwriting/microphone; portable as text can be copied for other apps to use like search/messaging/etc...; Easter egg for displaying the mapping of possible pronunciations to the Chinese characters like other Pinyin input method editor for developers as reference;

## Rankings

- #39,337 — Overall
- #21 — input

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `alarms`
- `storage`
- `scripting`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `*`
- `*.cantoneseinput.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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/word)