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those who can't speak AT LEAST 3 languages should just off themselves

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Okay, I installed it. My thoughts compared to Rikaisama:
- Initial setup is kind of annoying since the dictionaries for the add-on don't come from another add-on which can be quickly installed like with Rikaisama, but instead have to be downloaded from the add-on's own website as .zip files (quick) and then manually installed via the add-on's options page (easy but slow). There is a silver lining to this though which is that the more add-ons you have active, the slower Firefox is, so since you don't need to install any addition add-ons when using Yomichan, using it should have less of an impact on Firefox's performance.

- EPWING dictionary upsides: Whereas with Rikaisama, EPWING dictionaries are really slow and you have to wait several seconds for the definition to show up, there is no delay at all with this add-on.

- EPWING dictionary downsides: You have to download a program from the add-on's website and convert the EPWING dictionary to another format (surprisingly quick and easy) and then manually add it to Yomichan via the add-on's options page (again, slow). The bigger problem though is that EPWING definitions display in the same pop-up as the non-EPWING definitions, which makes the Kenkyusha dictionary basically unusable as it has tons of example sentences accompanying every definition which bloats the pop-up to hell. Unlike Rikaisama's pop-ups, Yomichan's do have a scrollbar on them, making the length less of an issue, but it's still a nuisance having all that unnecessary information cluttering up the pop-up and getting in the way of the definitions (this is more the Kenkyusha dictionary's fault than the add-ons though, I guess - it would be nice if the developer made it possible to strip the example sentences from the original dictionary when converting it for use with the add-on, but I don't know if that's even possible).

- Since Yomichan doesn't have an 'automatic' mode like Rikaisama does, it means you have to either hold down the SHIFT key or hold down the middle mouse button while hovering over things to get the pop-up to show up. I guess this is the compromise that the developer had to make in order to get persistent pop-up window that you can scroll through, copy-paste text from, and so on. I think the benefits you get from this are probably worth it (it was always annoying with Rikaisama when there were too many possible definitions for a word so I had to go search it in Jisho instead to see the rest), but it will take some getting used to. The fact that looking words up takes that little bit more effort might be actually be a good way of discouraging over-reliance on the add-on, though.

- Can't use the Rikaicake dictionary add-on with it, which is a huge downside for me. There have been a number of times when the Rikaicake definition has meant the difference between me understanding a sentence and not understanding a sentence.

- It lists definitions in a vertical list instead of in a row like with Rikaisama, which makes the pop-up unnecessarily long.

- When hovering over a word written in kana, uncommon ways of writing that word in kanji are listed as separate definitions (e.g. 返る and 反る for かえる), which makes the pop-up unnecessarily long.

- It's less responsive than Rikaisama (it's slower at producing new definitions when moving between words).

Maybe it's just a matter of familiarity, but I prefer Rikaisama. Since it won't work for much longer though, I guess I'll have to get used to using this instead...

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I meant video...