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.
Download

Add-on stats

Users: 2,991 ▲ 33
Version: 1.25 (Last updated: 2023-01-23)
Creation date: 2021-11-19
Weekly download count: 61
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

Ranking

# 1607 ▲ 4
Other rankings
Upgrade to see more rankings

Other platforms

Modern for Wikipedia (v1.40)
4.63 (163) 20,000
Not available on Edge
Want to check extension ranking and stats more quickly for other Firefox add-ons? Install Chrome-Stats extension to view Chrome-Stats data as you browse the Firefox Browser Add-ons.

Add-on summary

Analyze keywords

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)

See more

User reviews

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
  • Beautiful design and user experience improvements
  • Enhances readability on Wikipedia
  • Better than some alternative extensions (e.g., Wikiwand)
  • Generally quick performance
Cons
  • Causes infinite page refreshing on the Wikipedia homepage
  • Adds '?useskin=vector' to URLs, complicating link sharing
  • Language switcher lacks a favourite/pinned option
  • Dark theme improvements needed, some users find them unattractive
Most mentioned
  • Page refresh issue
  • ?useskin=vector added to URLs
  • Beautiful design
  • Readability improvements
  • Performance comparable to vanilla Wikipedia
Recent reviews
Looks great! I'd love for the ability to use custom fonts
by Displayname333, 2024-11-19
by Firefox user 18372316, 2024-10-17
by andrei oprea, 2024-10-14
View all user reviews

Add-on safety

Risk impact

Modern for Wikipedia requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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

Upgrade to see risk analysis details