Firefox 3 and the ChinesePod traditional plugin?

h4rrydog
June 21, 2008, 01:19 PM posted in General Discussion

Hi.  Has anybody gotten the ChinesePod traditional plugin to work with Firefox 3?  I get one of those "not compatible with this version" errors.  Help!

 

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sweetwatermelon94
June 21, 2008, 05:35 PM

This plugin should be abandoned, and replaced with REAL traditional character support, which gives learners the possibility to choose. Why not via a preference under "Me" > Profile?? And access the correct PDF, HTML script, all in the selected script Trad/Simp. ???

This has been asked for a thousand times!

It would be learning Chinese ON MY TERMS!

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hanyuxuesheng
July 08, 2008, 05:02 PM

h4rrydog's question is unanswered since June 21.

Will ChinesePod's traditional plugin work with Firefox 3 sometimes in the future?

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sweetwatermelon94
June 27, 2008, 06:41 AM

ChinesePod: nobody want to comment on this?

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RJ
June 27, 2008, 11:38 AM

how do you say "let them eat cake"?

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lostinasia
July 03, 2008, 02:31 AM

Bump.

The cake's getting stale.

 

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garethbridges
July 06, 2008, 04:41 AM

Hi,

One more person here who would like the TC plugin to support Firefox 3; in fact, as stated above...better TC support in general.

Also I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed that whilst the dialogue is converted to TC, the vocab remains in SC. It doesn't ruin my day, but it would be good to see these annoyances resolved.

Gareth

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calkins
July 06, 2008, 04:57 AM

Gareth, you're right.  The dialogue and expansion pages are converted to TC, but not the vocabulary page. 

Doesn't make much sense, does it...."Here's some dialogue using TC, but you have to learn the vocab. in SC."  Kind of like teaching a child new words using the Roman alphabet, then showing dialogue of those words using the Greek alphabet.

However, you can still get the TC vocab. in the traditional PDF, and/or the html version of it.  No plugin needed for that.

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garethbridges
July 06, 2008, 06:21 AM

It's not the end of the world, it just means that if I want to add TC words to my vocab lists, I need to pick them from the dialogue instead.

Ideally I'd review this content on my PDA, but the characters appear so small that they could even be in Korean and I still wouldn't be able to tell!  Does anyone else have this problem?

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bazza
July 06, 2008, 11:55 AM

You could always use this plugin. It easily converts any page between simplified and traditional, you also set it to auto-convert. Version 0.3.9.1 works with FF3.

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lostinasia
July 06, 2008, 12:51 PM

Thanks for the link bazza, but I'm a little confused--how do I install that? I just get a downloaded .xpi file, and then I don't know what to do with that. (This is on a Mac.)

I can't find tongwen if I try searching within Firefox add-ons.

I did find this plug-in, for Gb2Big, which seems to do a similar job, although it can't just be set to run automatically. I'm not sure how well it works across ChinesePod because I'm currently not a paying subscriber.

Gb2Big does let me toggle all the comments into traditional, which is an improvement on the ChinesePod plug-in... I may spend more time with Chinese-language comments if they're already in characters I'm comfortable with.

I haven't had a chance yet to see how reliable it is, re: issues like 面 and 麵 and or 准 and 準.

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lostinasia
June 24, 2008, 12:43 PM

Bump, basically.

Firefox 3 tells me there's no updated version of the traditional plug-in. Am I missing something?

And, while an updated plug-in would be nice, I second what  甜西瓜 (甜甜的西瓜?) said above.

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ladave
July 06, 2008, 07:25 PM

The lack of response from our friends at CPod is strange and not all how it used to be.

I hope this is a temporary situation.

 

 

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hanyuxuesheng
July 07, 2008, 06:32 AM

They are quite busy to launch GermanPod, ArabicPod, JapanesePod, RussianPod, ...   Don't expect too much in the future. Read also this.

 

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lostinasia
July 07, 2008, 12:45 PM

At one point I was quite interested in ArabicPod, but now I'm seriously wondering about commitment to quality and addressing user issues. 

I can't believe there's still not even been a comment about the traditional plug-in and Firefox 3 issue. I first raised this on June 6, over a month ago, and others have repeatedly called attention to it. How many posts do we have to make?! I was a premium subscriber, and my subscription expired a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't renewed because I am sick of half-hearted to non-existent traditional support.

Now, I also wonder - what if I renew. And then another problem appears. Will it once again be over a month before ChinesePod even acknowledges the problem? How much of my subscription will be wasted waiting for a fix that never comes?

Yeah, this is a whinge, but... well... apparently squeaking, or downright screeching, is required to get some attention.

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RJ
July 07, 2008, 01:29 PM

Yep things have changed and it will have an impact. Write directly to them if you have not already so they can not pretend they havent seen the complaints. Bear in mind you are a minority with this issue but they dont seem to be doing much better with common issues either. For me its do it or dont do it, but at least communicate. Such an arrogant disrespect for the users and it would be so easy to remedy, thereby eliminating many hard feelings and much resentment.

 

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RJ
July 07, 2008, 01:32 PM

by the way, why do random posts repeat the last line partially or in full? very annoying and it has been going on for weeks not days. At least put the new guy on it. Not critical, in fact very small issue but it seems if no one mentions it .......

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RJ
July 07, 2008, 01:36 PM

Brent - maybe we are just turning into cranky curmudgeons. And yes, I will have some cheese with that whine.

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lostinasia
July 07, 2008, 01:52 PM

Brent?

(For what it's worth, I don't think I'm getting the "posts repeating the last line" bug. On a Mac with Safari or sometimes Firefox.)

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RJ
July 07, 2008, 07:25 PM

LostinAsia- (Brent is Calkins btw)

your last post repeats as I see it.

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calkins
July 06, 2008, 01:36 PM

Thanks for the plugin Bazza.  However, as a paying subscriber, I don't think I should have to resort to a 3rd party plugin to do something that should be built into CPod's website.

Now if CPod would say something like "we have no future intentions to improve traditional support," then I might be willing to spend the additional time and effort to use a plugin like this.  But no word from CPod on this in a very long time, and it's been asked for a million times.  I don't understand the silence.