What is Modern for Wikipedia?
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Enhance your Wikipedia experience with a beautiful, clean, modern design that's fully customizable.
Once installed, Modern 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 simply 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)
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- Makes Wikipedia much nicer on the eyes
- Dark mode is better than general dark mode extensions
- Great features and overall functionality
- Better than Wikiwand
- Reading is easier and more enjoyable
- Needs to be updated to manifest v3 to continue working
- Annoying donation ads that are not removed
- Editing can be inconvenient without a visual editor
- Responsive design needs improvement for small screens
- Upgrade to manifest v3 is necessary
- Dark mode enhancements
- Comparison to Wikiwand and its shortcomings
- Annoyance with donation ads
- Great overall user experience
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Modern for Wikipedia requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
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Modern for Wikipedia has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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