Each new tab opens to a random Wikipedia article

Latest Version

Version
3.1
Update
February 5, 2013
Size
148KiB
Developer
Category
Users
151
Rating
2.55556 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Http://en.wikipedia.org/
Storage
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Random Wikipedia Tab Extension

The extension opens a random Wikipedia article in the background on each new tab. The latest version also lets you choose other languages as well as Wikia sites. Let us know if you want other languages or other wikias added!

Learn something new, discover an interesting fact, or find out just how many articles Wikipedia actually has about Euro Football.

Perhaps you are wondering \"can't I just change my homepage?\". This is better: It caches a few pages in the background, so you don't have to wait for it to load and can get on with your new-tab-ish business.

This plugin is open source. See the source code (and contribute to it!) here:
https://github.com/jamesagnew/random_wikipedia_tab/
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url":"http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Random Wikipedia Tab", "description": "Each new tab opens to a random Wikipedia article", "version": "3.1", "icons": { "48": "icon48.png", "128": "icon128.png" }, "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' https://ssl.google-analytics.com; object-src 'self'", "permissions": [ "http://en.wikipedia.org/", "storage" ], "optional_permissions": [ "http://en.wikipedia.org/","http://recipes.wikia.com/","http://starwars.wikia.com/","http://logos.wikia.com/","http://how-to.wikia.com/","http://dogs-cats.wikia.com/","http://science.wikia.com/","http://mario.wikia.com/","http://de.wikipedia.org/","http://fr.wikipedia.org/","http://nl.wikipedia.org/","http://it.wikipedia.org/","http://es.wikipedia.org/","http://ru.wikipedia.org/","http://pl.wikipedia.org/","http://ja.wikipedia.org/","http://pt.wikipedia.org/","http://sv.wikipedia.org/","http://zh.wikipedia.org/","http://vi.wikipedia.org/","http://uk.wikipedia.org/","http://ca.wikipedia.org/","http://no.wikipedia.org/","http://fi.wikipedia.org/","http://fa.wikipedia.org/","http://cs.wikipedia.org/","http://hu.wikipedia.org/","http://ko.wikipedia.org/","http://ro.wikipedia.org/","http://id.wikipedia.org/","http://ar.wikipedia.org/","http://tr.wikipedia.org/","http://kk.wikipedia.org/","http://sk.wikipedia.org/","http://sr.wikipedia.org/","http://ms.wikipedia.org/","http://eo.wikipedia.org/","http://da.wikipedia.org/","http://lt.wikipedia.org/","http://eu.wikipedia.org/","http://bg.wikipedia.org/","http://he.wikipedia.org/","http://sl.wikipedia.org/","http://hr.wikipedia.org/","http://vo.wikipedia.org/","http://war.wikipedia.org/","http://et.wikipedia.org/","http://hi.wikipedia.org/","http://ceb.wikipedia.org/","http://gl.wikipedia.org/","http://nn.wikipedia.org/","http://simple.wikipedia.org/","http://az.wikipedia.org/","http://la.wikipedia.org/","http://el.wikipedia.org/","http://uz.wikipedia.org/","http://th.wikipedia.org/","http://sh.wikipedia.org/","http://oc.wikipedia.org/" ], "chrome_url_overrides" : { "newtab": "mynewtab.html" } }
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Alexandra II (ID: 00000082e50889e5) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 05/15/2018 How to activate content inside tab? Seems like right corner settings are not working

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Yota (ID: 000000d0fd57614f) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 12/03/2016 Doesn't work

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Maik Lanen (ID: 000000f72b385c9e) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 11/28/2016 Does not work!!!!! werkt niet ne pas traveille!!!

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Peter Kingswell (ID: 0000004cfaea2827) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 05/15/2016 It doesn't work for me because Chrome says it hasn't properly asked for CORS: XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'chrome-extension://lngmpepkiehelbokpbaaddablknfoncc' is therefore not allowed access. HTH

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T (ID: 000000483414c3b4) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 03/02/2016 Great idea, but didn't work- reinstalled the app and still nothing loads.