Lookup Companion for Wikipedia
Essential extension for any Wikipedia users. Full-featured: saves your recent wiki lookups, multi-lingual, back/forward and more!
What is Lookup Companion for Wikipedia?
Lookup Companion for Wikipedia is a full-featured mini-browser/lookup tool for Wikipedia. It saves your recent wiki lookups, supports multiple languages, and provides features like back/forward history. Developed by Visibo Ltd.
Extension stats
This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on
2023-03-23
By: mongolian2010
Users: 45,829+ 
Rating: 4.48
(900)
Creation date: 2014-12-31
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- http://*.wikipedia.org/
- contextMenus
Size: 144.38K
URLs: Website
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Extension summary
Full-featured mini-browser/lookup tool for Wikipedia. Now 100,000 users! (Previously "Wikipedia Companion")
Features:
- Support all available languages in Wikipedia (New in 2.0)
- Support search via context menu
- Instant popup; No delay, no unneeded loading from server with our cache!
- Key focus: type the moment you open it
- Access to your recent lookups across any tabs and pages
- Back/forward history - works like mini-browser
- Multi-lingual support
- Option to open featured article on startup
- Select text within in the popup, then right click to search
- Customizable popup size
Hope you like it. Notice that this is not an official add-on from the Wikipedia Foundation.
See moreUser reviews
Didn't work.
Never loaded pages in context menu.
by 
Steven (Steven), 2019-02-28
Steven (Steven), 2019-02-28Pop up doesn't work, it keeps showing that it's loading. 1 Star.
by 
Híu IELTS, 2018-12-04
Híu IELTS, 2018-12-04The Pop Up does not work. Whats the point of this if not working. Come on!
by 
Timo Hamkissa, 2018-08-03
Timo Hamkissa, 2018-08-03Extension safety
Risk impact
Lookup Companion for Wikipedia requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Lookup Companion for Wikipedia may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.
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