Quickly search for highlighted text on Wikipedia via right-click
This extension is super lightweight and simple to use following this three step process:
1) Highlight some text
2) Right-click
3) Select "Search Wikipedia..."
Opens the search in a new tab.
Auto-detects your browser language and uses the version of Wikipedia for your language!
** If you're an existing user upgrading to 0.9, new permissions are required in order to enable the latest features. You may have to re-enable the extension **
New in version 0.9: by request, if you click on a hyperlink you will now see the option to search Wikipedia for the text of the hyperlink. This new menu item can be disabled via the options dialog. Additional permissions were required to implement this feature as it requires access to page content.
New in version 0.8: You can now optionally keep focus in your current tab rather than switching to the search tab immediately
New in version 0.7: You can set your search to always use the English-language version of Wikipedia no matter what language your browser uses.
How to set options: enter chrome://extensions to the omnibox and choose "Options" under the Right-Click Wikipedia entry
For issues, you can contact me at [email protected]
Latest reviews
- (2020-07-07) Jim Barr: Clean and simple. Does what it says and does it flawlessly.
- (2020-03-19) Alexander Kapphahn: Opens the wikipedia page in a new tab. That's it! 5/5
- (2019-12-26) peng wang: 虽然软件早已不在更新,但是他值得5星的评价
- (2018-07-03) Rob Pokorney: omgosh, little, tiny, lightweight, extensions... love you, miss you, bring your friends, we'll build a custom browser...
- (2018-01-19) S. S. Y.: Does not work at all. And preference of this has NO selective option for non-English users but only one checkbox "☑Always use English Wikipedia".
- (2017-11-06) Waylon Smithers: Excellent. Just what I was looking for.
- (2016-11-23) Alexander Silve: Quite simply a must have for a student
- (2016-07-27) Doc Docjacot: Right Click Search Wikipedia, permet de lancer une recherche sur Wikipédia
- (2016-06-08) Thaddeus Warner: A very useful function ably performed by this simple extension.
- (2016-04-04) Doctor Spaceman: It should have 5/5 stars, It's simple and does exactly what it says.
- (2016-01-16) André Giovanni: Perfeito! Exatamente o que estava procurando!
- (2015-05-17) Eyob Fitwi: This really is a convenient relief.
- (2014-07-17) divya joshi: its excellent...superb
- (2014-01-25) Laurent Perroteau: Parfait, que demander de plus
- (2013-04-04) Tom Holloway: I use several times a day. So convenient to find something and saves many steps and many clicks. *****
- (2012-12-12) Jean-Christophe DIAZ: fait le boulot
- (2012-11-28) A P: Круто было бы сделать предпросмотр во всплывающем окне!
- (2012-11-23) Sebastian Fritz: It would be perfect if the extension would recognize the language of the website and search the corresponding wikipedia page.
- (2012-10-17) Hugo Alcayaga: excelente . de mas esta decir que sirve mucho estando en el menu contextual, lo mejor es que busca el idioma de wikipedia automaticamente de acuerdo, al idioma que usas.
- (2012-07-22) alex kozlov: очень нужная вещь!
- (2012-06-18) Do what is says. PERFECT !!!!
- (2012-03-03) Упячка АПРолвд: неплохо, искал типо этого !
Statistics
Installs
11,692
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Rating
4.7 (118 votes)
Last update / version
2014-04-12 / 0.9.1
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