Merlin
Modern for Wikipedia

Modern for Wikipedia

A redesigned user interface for Wikipedia. Enhance your Wikipedia experience with a beautiful, clean, modern design that's fully customizable.

What is Modern for Wikipedia?
"Modern for Wikipedia" is a Firefox add-on that gives a refreshing modern design to Wikipedia. It applies new looks and features to existing Wikipedia article pages and supports all current features on Wikipedia. It offers improvements like themes, varied fonts, styles, languages, user accounts, history, search, trending, contents, and editing functionalities. Further, it lets you switch back to the old design with one click. Notably, it's not endorsed by or affiliated with Wikipedia.
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Users: 2,867 ▲ 5
Rating: 4.48 (79)
Version: 1.25 (Last updated: 2023-01-23)
Creation date: 2021-11-19
Weekly download count: 56
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
  • *://*.wikipedia.org/*
Size: 343.32K
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Enhance your Wikipedia experience with a beautiful, clean, modern design that's fully customizable.

Once installed, this extension will simply apply the new look and features to existing Wikipedia article pages, without you having to do anything.

All current features on Wikipedia are supported, this extension just builds upon the existing interface to offer many improvements, including:

✔ Themes (light, dark, sepia, slate, black) ✔ Fonts (sans, serif, change font size) ✔ Styles (column width, line height) ✔ Languages (menu to switch, fully translated interface) ✔ User accounts (all wikipedia account features accessible from menu) ✔ History (quickly jump to articles you've previously viewed) ✔ Search (powerful autocomplete with preview text & images) ✔ Trending (see today's most read articles) ✔ Contents (fixed to left side for easy navigation, can be hidden)

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User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Improves readability of Wikipedia
  • Dark themes available
  • Well-made and beautiful design
Cons
  • Causes infinite refreshing on Wikipedia home page
  • Issues with language switcher
  • Hard-coded font usage
Most mentioned
  • Causes infinite refreshing on Wikipedia home page
  • Improves readability of Wikipedia
  • Dark themes available
Recent reviews
This is a great add-on. Normally the only issue is that it adds "?useskin=vector" to the url which is slightly annoying when sharing links, but the links work fine without the add-on. Recently however v1.25 causes Firefox to get stuck in an infinite loop when accessing the base domain www.wikipedia.org.
by James Cole, 2024-04-17
by Firefox user 18315448, 2024-03-19
by Firefox user 18315448, 2024-03-19
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Safety
Risk impact

Modern for Wikipedia is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Modern for Wikipedia if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Modern for Wikipedia has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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