Display quick description of the terms in the Wikipedia article.

Latest Version

Version
2.20
Update
July 8, 2017
Size
64.24KiB
Developer
dfsq.info
Category
Users
5,000+
Rating
4.61538 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Tabs
Http://commons.wikimedia.org/
Https://commons.wikimedia.org/
Http://upload.wikimedia.org/
Https://upload.wikimedia.org/
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Wikipedia Quick Hints Extension

A simple extension that makes reading Wikipedia articles more convenient.
When reading how often do you have to open an additional cross-article just to glimpse quickly at the meaning of a term you do not know?
Now with Wikipedia Quick Hints getting definitions of unknown terms has become as simple as just hovering the cursor over a respective link. The definition pops up automatically. Images zooming is another useful feature of the extension.
See screenshots for example.

Please rate if you find it useful. Comment if you have questions, find bugs or have ideas for improvements.

Changes history:

In version 2.2.0
- Adjusted to new Wikipedia article structure. Bug fixes.

In version 2.1.7
- Fixed image zooming issue.

In version 2.1.6
- HTTPS pages support.
- new extension versioning.

In version 2.15
- new setting - hide question marks.
- minor improvement.

In version 2.1
- new feature - image thumbnails inside definition popup.
- quick little bug fix.

In version 2.0
- new feature - hints within another hint popup;
- settings page simplified;
- several bugs fixed.

In version 1.46
- fixed number of bugs.

In version 1.45:
- added new option to enable/disable images zooming.

In version 1.42:
- fixed several minor bugs.

In version 1.4:
- pressing Esc now closes the image preview popup;
- get definitions without using a hotkey, just hover the link;
- notifications about new features;

In version 1.3:
- restructuring and code improvements;
- icons change;
- some bugs with the hint position;

In version 1.2:
- fixed several bugs;
- added quick pictures zoom option.


*** ATTENTION ***
Due to the changes Wikepedia developers made to the structure of the articles WikipediaQuickHints had a lot of problems with getting correct definition and hence in most cases poped up useless \"Can not get definition for this term ...\" message. Please report the problems so that I could fix problematic places.

Thank you for using it! :)
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Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

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Farley X Wilbur (ID: 000000f6acff5e88) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 01/25/2022 I like the extension except for the small question mark under every highlighted word or phrase in the Wikipedia article. Just underline the word (which it does) and skip the question mark. All the subscript question marks on the page disrupt the flow of reading the article needlessly. We all get it, we know how to use the extension.

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Álvaro de la Paz Franco (ID: 0000004d6f9febae) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/11/2021 ¡La mejor de todas!

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Anders R Ese (ID: 000000bb8d3d49c6) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/07/2019 Thanks, exactly what I wanted :)

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Dmitriy Davydov (ID: 000000d486e347d1) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/26/2018 A'm absolutely love it. And want to find somewhat similar extension that previews content of visiting link but not exclusively for Wikipedia.

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Funto Komolafe (Funtø) (ID: 0000000945578df5) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/01/2018 Amazing, I forgot I even had the extension until I recently got used a different browser. I thought wikipedia did the pop-ups by itself. But apparently, it's this extension. So useful. Thanks for making my life easier.